#and this goes for on screen too

[doomed2repeat]

I’m actually tired of Luke Newton not getting his full credit for the success of selling the season. This is not discounting that Nicola is a powerhouse when it comes to PR, but Luke sold that chemistry HARD during the promo run. Polin took off among non-shippers when they both came out for that first event way back on Valentine’s Day, with Luke looking hot AF and people became locked in on the way he looked at her. Every single social media post had comments about how HE looked at HER, and people getting curious because of it. That was HUGE to what made them popular, and it never let up, he helped sell their chemistry - to the degree of some fans placing unhealthy expectations on it, but that’s another story. During interviews, even when Nicola did most of the talking, Luke served up delicious fanservice by often being the one who would say the most unhinged bits that sent the fans spiraling- talking about how tiny their intimacy wear was, being comfortable naked, blushing and giggling. People loved it. On and off the screen Luke has been responsible for half the magic that’s made Polin so beloved, he deserves to be acknowledged right alongside Nic.

[goatsorcery]

im so done with seeing articles about kids and screen time that doesnt mention parent behaviors even once. “kids are always on their phones” so are the parents! which the kids look to for how they should behave! ipad babies didn’t chose to only play on their ipads, thats what their parents gave them!

an anecdotal example: when i was a kid, all my parents would do in their minimal free time was watch tv and then they would be surprised when in my sister and i’s minimal free time we would also only watch tv/play video games. they scolded us for not reading books, but they never read books. they scolded us for not going outside but they never went outside.

“kids are always on their damn phones” my mom is in her 60s and opens up candy crush anytime she’s sitting — it isnt just the kids

[vibinginthebg]

Still some doodles of them :DD

[inkz123]

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[w1lmutt]

So I read gachiakuta

[welcometogrouchland]

Also I am. Constantly forgetting how fucking funny Hunter is. We never give him enough credit for how funny he is because his life is so fucked up but I swear 90% of his lines are just bit after bit after bit. He's not even trying either. Anytime he actively tries to make a joke it falls flat but if you just put him in a Scenario he'll find a way to be so over invested and yet out of touch/at odds with whatever's going on. He's so autistic

[companion-showdown]

Who had the worst time aboard the TARDIS?

TOURNAMENT MASTERPOST

[emile-hides]

I was watching a Youtube video of all the Cinematic from the new Overwatch Invasion update (cause heaven knows I ain't buying it) and I noticed at the end Ramattra has this like.. Burn? Mark?? On his chest that goes through his cape

So I downloaded Overwatch on my PC to get a look at the Wandering/Traveling Monk skins this scene is using and I noticed..

Traveling and Wandering have a lot of visual differences, most notably in the burn the originally got my attention.

Wandering has been used canonically to show Ramattra's monk days previously, in his origin story and in the Developer commentary, but interestingly the artwork in those videos is lacking that very burn

Overwatch character designers are very good at visual storytelling, especially with Omnics (I could write an essay on what they've done with Zenyatta), so I believe this burn may very well be what became the Last Straw for Ramattra, what pushed him to leave the Shambali, what caused his fall into violence and eventually Talon.

Was he attacked? Or was he attempting to protect someone else? Despite his best efforts to shield them, the shot fired right past him, scorching his metal, cutting through his cape, and taking their life...

I hope we learn more about it.

[circular-bircular]

I think there genuinely is an enormous problem in online spaces, I think in part due to the whole concept of purity culture, where everything people say and do online is scrutinized — not just in the case of “Is this person a good person,” but “Does this person represent the values we wish to see 24/7.”

Nobody is perfect, dear lord, and this place is not the place to seek perfection regardless. This is tumblr, home of the go nuts, show nuts rule; tumblr, which is as invaded by fandom and was originally meant to be a pseudo Facebook. People who use this place didn’t come here originally to be activists. And if you did, I'm a little concerned, genuinely, for your mental health and how well you're distancing yourself from difficult subjects and giving yourself the time you need to decompress.

And yet, we keep holding people up to this frankly impossible standard of representing a movement, regardless of what their blog content originally was for. Suddenly, every system on tumblr has to represent a certain Ideal for System Rights! They have to have the right views on system accountability, endogenic systems, plurality as an umbrella, littles, dormancy, fusion, functional multiplicity, parts language, the ToSD-

This is fucking ridiculous. A laundry list of topics that people have on their shoulders, along with every other laundry list of things that people need to care about. Fuck you if you're oppressed in any single way, you need to form opinions on every single one of those things, and if any opinion is out of place, then You Are Not A True [IDENTITY].

Somewhere along the way, many of us (I’m including myself here for a reason) managed to either convince ourselves or be convinced that we need to be Correct in some way about how this all works. That’s prideful and haughty at best, but typically moreso just… so detrimental to healing. None of us will be perfect… and so, when those of us who aren’t perfect are imperfect publicly, we are often harassed or attacked — or some of us attack others, for whatever reason it may be. And somehow, someway, we accepted that this is just how it works.

It's okay to discuss those things you disagree with online. It's okay to look at someone's take about, say, system accountability, or plurality, or littles, and reblog with your corrections and even anger! But you must be doing this with acknowledgement that people will be in different places, healing in different ways, and that there is nothing wrong with that. They're their own person!

But moreover, that's a whole ass blog. That's not a reflection of a person as a whole -- hell, it's rarely a reflection of the person at all. It's just a blog that they can put anything on. Have we not all heard the stories of people who've "Completely Changed" online, becoming people who others cannot recognize? People lie on the internet, intentionally or not.

Even me. I try my best to be who I am in real life here, and I share a LOT of myself with you all. You know I'm a teacher, and engaged, and have the most perfectest little cat in the world. But do you know me? I recently just got to visit an online friend in person (It was absolutely fucking incredible and I can't wait to do it again), and the entire time, I felt like I was just so awkward; I really struggled to stay present and talk more, which is something I don't struggle with nearly as much online. Believe it or not, I am not this long-winded in real life.

Maybe that's not lying, but it's not who I am. It's me being fundamentally different online than in real life. You all see me entirely through just the blogs you know me through. Maybe it's circie bircie, maybe you know my D&D blog, maybe you know me through positivitycombopack, or maybe this just shows up randomly on your dashboard. Maybe you don't know me at all.

And that goes for every person you see online. Do you actually know them? Do you know their beliefs? What they stand for? Why they believe those beliefs?

Or are you just seeing a blog?

[pondslime]

Favorite Living Dead Dolls

Maggot / Elisa / Frozen Charlotte / Alison Crux / Toxic Molly / Cuddles / Dawn / Revenant / Isabel

[asiandra-dash]

❥ 𝓣𝓮𝓵𝓵 𝓶𝓮, 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝓵𝓲𝓯𝓮?

♡/↻ if saving ┄ Credit is not needed, but appreciated

[hana-bobo-finch]

I didn’t have my iPad to work on any comics so I instead did the next best thing and used my finger and the notes app on a phone. I made two masterpieces. the first is based on the side effects of eating a clover that Louie listed. Especially the sauciness

The quality of the drawings and writing is absolute trash so I’m gonna transcribe it here so it’s at least slightly legible:

Olimar. I am going to perish. Goodbye.

?? What??

I ate this plant thing.

Ok?? And it’s poison?

Mhm. I will soon be gone from this mortal world!

Oh. Ok. Bye…??

AHAHAHAH. HAVE FUN WITH YOUR 9-5, SUCKER

What??

Y’know. I’m going to go to heaven and eat aaaall the bugs I want. But you’re stuck slaving away at Hocotate freight for the rest of your sad, sad life.

…Louie, you’re not going to heaven.

I’m gonna either faint or puke. Watch out buddy.

[prudentfolly]

-- after.

Oh, little Brumling, how are you always at the center of these things.

[ratatatastic]

the beautiful sights and sounds of giving a mouse a cookie or rather a rat a whole buffet of finnish delicacies he has no hope of ever finishing by himself that hes reduced to small nibbles lest he keels over and dies from how full he is

[vitamiiiiins]

...I've reread over 222 and I have to ask, is it being taken for granted that the 'Bookman' mentioned as being in the Campbell manor is in fact specifically Bookman Sr?

What i mean by this, is that we don't actually see Bookman. Do we have any confirmation that it's who we're assuming it is (Bookman Sr), other than them referring to him as 'Bookman'? All I can see in the chapters is what Lucia says regarding there no longer being a Bookman Jr. Translations read it a few ways, but the Japanese line is:

後継者となるJr.はもういません.

Direct translation: There is no longer (a/the? unclear) Jr. to become the successor.

The context being the question of what happens to the Bookman lineage if he dies now, given his poor health.

My Japanese is far from fluent, but I see no indicator that specifies anything other than referring to the person in question as "Bookman", and commenting that if he dies (which given the state both Jr & Sr were last seen in would be a valid concern), there is now no Jr to succeed him.

I ask because this would also be the case had Bookman Sr. been lost, and Lavi had now succeeded him as the Bookman. It could also explain Hoshino's comment about how when Lavi returns, it may be "in a form we didn't wish for". Because in that case, he wouldn't be Lavi anymore. He'd just be the Bookman now. The Lavi persona would be discarded.

Is there something I'm missing/forgetting from the info we have, or can someone who is fluent in Japanese correct me on the dialogue/chapter in question if I'm wrong? Cause I'm really curious if it is actually an established fact that the Bookman in question is definitely Bookman Sr, or if that's an assumption we're making because of how the characters have been referred to up to this point and we're overlooking another possibility here

[sea-buns]

I've gotten myself into a bit of a predicament where the new d20 ep was yesterday, and tonight is cr, but listen summer just started on my Meadowlands file and I have so much work to do–

suffice to say I am teetering on the edge of falling behind on these very long shows I have committed myself to and that is sooo dangerous for my adhd brain