#and therefore it’s too late

[casa-delle-galline]

Unpopular opinion (probably):

The memories in ToTK should have been playable. Like you could experience the memories as Zelda when she travelled to the past.

Actually, the memories in BoTW should have been playable too.

[sugusoko]

ff7 women in S.T.E.M.

[akuma-tenshi]

i would like to introduce you all to the family my friend and i have created through sheer love of these characters

[moonshynecybin]

sas rogue heroes boldly asserting that a fridged wife can transcend gender and sexuality by killing eoin and having eve fake her death (paddy and stirling BOND over this hashtag dead wives club) before deciding against giving david stirling ANYTHING to do emotionally this season and having her just write to him to let him know that she’s completely fine (oopsie daisy !) off screen. and then drop it forever. what happened to my beautiful commitmentphobe eve mansour who wanted him to think she was dead to avoid getting attached. what happened to her. where is SHE ?

[crystalpallette]

arle if you want to get re-elected stuco president you can't admit you beat up on your twin sister once many times never like that

[scarefox]

btw I really hope ThamePo drives the point home to the toxic part of the BL and idol stans, that idols dating should not be a crime punishable by social execution (aka cancle culture).

It's ridiculous but some people really never think outside of that self-righteous entitlement brain set until they get the actors / idols pov and feelings and hurt served on a silver plate. Only then they start to get it. I have seen it with "Every you, Every me" where people commented under the last episode that they will stop being so harsh on actors since we never know how they feel behind the cam and that they are just humans with feelings too. YOU DON'T SAY?

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2025: OVERGROWTH by Mira Grant.

Plant-astically delighted to report that I received an ARC via Tor (Nightfire) and Goodreads! I love Seanan McGuire's writing, and my first foray into her work as Mira Grant was INTO THE DROWNING DEEP, which was phenomenal (think all the best parts of Michael Crichton--the Science, the Speculation, the Consequences--but women and queer people are Entire Characters)(we love a good sci-fi horror paced like a thriller in this house).

The premise of OVERGROWTH is basically "the pod people are coming, they've been warning you about it for decades, and no one has been listening." Stasia, our main character and (first person, past tense) narrator, has spent her whole life telling people that she's "the vanguard of an invading species of intelligent alien plants," which is confirmed via a broadcast from space.

And the chapters are time-stamped "X days pre-invasion."

Yeah.

This book was an absolute delight and all around a lot of fun--the tone was the perfect balance of funny and heartfelt and relatable and dread-inducing, and it very much read like a love letter to the genre with lots of cross-pollinated references (Seymour? Little Shop of Horrors? War of the Worlds? Jurassic Park? Hello????).

It was also very much a book about the distinction between being human and being a person, and about alienation and belief and trust and friendship, and about queerness and neurodivergence and belonging. And, y'know, mimetic plant aliens, in myriad shades of green.

I was initially surprised by the choice to tell this story in past tense and first person (because DROWNING DEEP was patently not that, and most of what I've read of McGuire hasn't been either), but it turns out that was The Only Correct Way To Do It: For most of the book, Stasia didn't have the full picture of what was going on, but her partial understanding + our readerly perspective from inside her head carried both the relatability and the horror. It was a really interesting and cool way to do an alien invasion book (from the perspective of the invader's plant)(ahaha, botanical pun). Also, the narrative frame made me pterodactyl Hunter shriek my way through the last two pages, which. OOF. WHAT A RIDE!!! I'll be rotisserie-ing over the late-game twist (page 396/465 in my copy) and the ending for a long time.

I loved that the aliens felt alien and all too much like people; I loved Toni and Hunter; I loved the biology and worldbuilding; I loved the botanical quips ("salad bar" is, in fact, the best possible term of address to an alien invader, no notes); I loved the shady government agencies and unethical experimentation; I loved the "we are the monsters you have made". I stayed up way past my bedtime several times for this, and it was worth every second. Do recommend, check this out in May!!

Half-assed spoilery content warnings under the cut (I'm not good at these because I have a weird concept of what necessitates a warning, so please do NOT consider these complete in any way shape or form):

on-page toddler death (graphic, in prologue, signposted with "look away"); transphobia (toward beloved trans character); spider (alien); bug-adjacent (alien); vampirism/blood drinking; other usual horror/alien invasion type tropes etc. (body horror? do people tag body horror?? i was an animorphs kid i'm sorry i don't know what a normal amount of body horror is but i love it all)

[lunarrolls]

personally i think ashton needs to do more confidently insane impulsive shit. jumping into a volcano. ruining the world’s first gunsmith’s table and bullying him in his own home. being fully ready to eat a rock so hot it burns to the touch. shutting himself in a fucking stone coffin to throw rocks at the goddess of death’s window until she looks at them. nobody is doing it like them

[robinsceramics]

this is insane. I have made (counts) seventeen wolves and other canids in the last week, and I can actually line them up in a row and see myself learning canid anatomy and how to sculpt them successfully. what the heck. last week I didn't know how wolf knees worked and now I do. how'd that happen

[mugzymiik]

mirroring

[squorttle-pox]

idk if it means anything really, but i think it's interesting how after all their time together as a couple in a christianity-adjacent world, lucifer and lilith only had one (1) child, and it was only 200 years ago at that

[archerstreet]

i think growing up is just life repeatedly sucker punching you and saying bitch you thought things were gonna better lmao no you're so naive and stupid for having hope in 20 years the world will be flaming bag of garbage and no matter how hard you work you'll get eliminated at some point

[swiftfootedachilles]

im just gonna be honest gang obviously its gonna be easy for you to say youre in love with a character and theyre an angel when anytime they do something you don't like you brush it off as out of character

[walriding]

"miles is stupid for going to the asylum" "miles should've tried to leave instead of exploring / recording everything" "miles is a dumbass for--"

what if what happened was inescapable. inevitable. what if waylon emailed him and only him for a reason. what if his pre existing obsession with murkoff meant it was an opportunity he couldn't pass up, and even if it looked dangerous what if he couldn't just turn his back on people suffering because of the company. what if once he entered the building the rest of it was completely out of his hands. what if his entire journey through the asylum as orchestrated by father martin really was at the behest of what whispered in the static.

what if there was no other way it all could have happened because Something Else needed him exactly where he ended up.

[apheliia]

🌻 i saw your post abt characters that wouldnt cheat and i, as the scaramouche no. 1 enjoyer obsessed with him, would like to throw my five cents about this guy AHAJSHDH look you cant mention him and expect me to not appear somewhere...

so. so! i dont think he would cheat on his partner but i also dont. cant exactly? see him in an actual relationship during his fatui harbingers days.

develop feelings? maybe. could happen! but with his position as a harbinger and generally... other fatui related problems... getting into a relationship would be kinda hard i think. but i really dont think he would cheat 😔 not only i think love would come hard for him, but also... damn this guy lost too many people in life and got betrayed three (3) times too much to give someone a part of himself and then just leave for someone else methinks!

yeah you get it!!!!!

i didn't mention characters who i literally could not see in a relationship and scara as a harbinger fell into that category (and i think if he were in a relationship, it wouldn't be healthy from the start anyways if that makes sense? so like he wouldn't go out of his way to cheat, probably would view the act of doing so in a negative light, but like... i could also see a universe in which he cheats. i don't quite have the words for why but the best way i can describe it is him snatching back any piece of himself he gave to his lover by cheating, sort of like an act of self preservation? idk if that mkes sense AUGHHH scara as a harbinger would have been a 0/10 bf to have anyways though i am so sorry). he wouldn't be one for vulnerability at that point in his life in my opinion, and vulnerability is key in any healthy relationship. so he probably wouldn't view the relationship as REAL in the first place yk?

HOWEVER if he did end up in a healthy relationship? he would commit murder sooner (he would do that anyway but that's not the point...) than he would cheat LMFAO it all really depends on the specific circumstances. but yeah i agree with you!!

[lesbianwyllravengard]

Another connection between Luis and Leon's relationship paralleling Ada and Leon's relationship. The fact that both Ada and Luis feel they have to mask their personalities around Leon and come across as less vulnerable and more put together than they actually are. throwing up