#and utalised

[star-dust-n-astral-wind]

So Let's Talk About Emilie Agreste!

Of all the characters in the needlessly convoluted and badly explained backstory of Miraculous: The Tales Of Ladybug and Chat Noir, one character stands out as a paragon of "...wait, what?" And that person is Emilie Agreste.

Emilie Agreset is the wife of Gabriel Agreste, AKA Hawk Moth, AKA Scarlet Moth, AKA Shadow Moth, AKA Monarch, AKA the Collector, and probably a few others but I think six different names is enough.

Emilie is also the mother of Adrien. This is surprisingly unimportant, considering that Adrien is ostensibly one of our co-leads.

Exactly who Emilie was as a person and her role in the backstory is shrouded rather heavily in mystery. We have some facts, but not a whole lot.

One thing to note is that everyone seems to hold Emilie in pretty high regard, with basically everyone that knew of her throwing out at least one compliment about her.

But was she a good person? Really?

We know that Adrien was isolated for his whole childhood. We also know that (despite what may be assumed from Season 1) Emilie died (or was in a coma? I feel that was never really made clear) only a short time before the events of Origins. We even have a "one hundred week anniversary" at one point, so this wasn't a thing that happened a long time ago.

So was Emilie okay with the isolation, or could she just not dissuade Gabriel? Did she sign off on her son becoming a model (something that has a long and troubled history), or was she overpowered by her husband?

And what actually took her down? As I said before, we're horribly lacking on what I'd consider key details about the backstory. We know she used the damaged Peacock Miraculous at least once in the past, but all evidence suggests that was several years ago. When Nathalie used it, she was crippled within hours, something that we're not told happened to Emilie.

All in all, exactly who Emilie was as a person and even what happened to her is something we really don't know for sure. Which I personally find to be really annoying, as she's arguably the single most important character in the entire backstory of the show! Nearly everything that happens across the entire first five seasons can be tied back to her!

So who was Emilie Agreste and what actually happened to her? We just don't know, not for sure at least.

[keef-a-corn]

I’ve just hc Tech as an absolute menace at this rate

My boy is disrespectful and steals from any and everyone (not kidding either. Bro has stolen a lightsaber before, I’m not hearing otherwise.)

TBF though- Chaos Tech is an absolute delight

Also gotta get this out there- I simply adore the idea that the batch are actually still kiddos. The amount of AUs I have where they’re just traumatised little gremlins trying to live.

Only time they aren’t children is when Tech has a relationship with Phee

But every other time?

Kiddos. 100%.

Works hand in hand with my Chaos Tech

He’s tiny, he’s Chaos, and if he gets caught, he’s the precious darling in tears.

[summonthebats]

Deeply peeved that Shadowhunters never took their openning to

a) have Alec pretend to be a warock and rocks heels and Magnus' wardrobe or

b) have Alec weild a claymore the way super tall dudes are ment too

Like there are good reasons to mess with plots and these are amoung them!

[exvaltiora]

exploitative hypercapitalist interpretations dont work for elias because hes not the ceo or even the boss of the company hes your asshole retail manager who sweettalked his way into getting a slight raise and now basically thinks he owns the place because he has a slight amount of power over you when he still has a boss he has to report to and will fire him if he fucks up

[lilliths-httyd-blog]

viggo is the type of person to think paprika is spicy

ingrid eats pickled jalapenos out of the jar

ingrid once gave viggo a jalapeno

all trust was lost that day

[sneak-a-cat]

sorry but the fact that they refuse to give us like any shots of nancy reacting to things like the rest of the crew is a tragedy, and my boy jonathan too, like they ain't known for the most dramatic facial expressions but baby please they are missing out the few times we do get a funny moment for them are always great (eg. "... woah-" in season one when she see's the clusterfuck that the byers house was, and babe imma be honest with you my gay ass cannot think of an example for jonathan because i do not focus on him </3)

[samusaran221]

Bro literally doesn’t remember the 2016 election where leftists throwing away their votes on a third party member in Florida caused republicans to win the state and the election.

Can someone tell Democrats that leftists and progressives with moral objections are not a big enough contingent to swing an election and if they were, the way to get groups to vote for you is to offer them things they want rather than lib-scold them about voting on social media

[guiltygearxrd2]

me watching the “how the fuck is pokemon running on the same machine that xenoblade 1,2, and 3 are meant for” drama on tik tok

[summerlinenss]

Continuing the discussion from Twitter about Taika possibly not being straight, I do hesitate to diagnose strangers with 'queer' because it's usually done by utalising stereotypes (like just him being flamboyant or the latest 'evidence' of him being at a Paris Hilton concert, he seems to go to pretty much everything.)

Without getting too parasocial, the everyone's a bit queer quote from before Thor 4 seemed different though, almost like a soft launch? The dumb backlash was unfortunately familiar to me, as someone who poked her head out of the closet, only to be met with a resounding 'we don't want you'. If he was trying to do that, I dont blame him for not trying since, I certainly havent.

Like i don't think he's a closeted gay, theres no indication that his romantic relationships with women havent been real, but he is from a generation that flat out didnt think bisexuality was a real thing. And the fact he's older and has talked about growing up in a toxic masculinity culture probably has more to with it.

I dunno, i know i shouldnt be think about strangers like this, but some things he's said feel familiar to me

(context for those not on the bird app)

i totally agree with not labelling anyone, and (regardless of how he does identify) taika seems very comfortable in his sexuality, which is all that matters. however, there’s also nothing he’s ever done to make me assume he is straight, if that makes sense?

i definitely took his out magazine interview as a sort of soft launch, as you said. especially since he followed it up with a “coming out” joke tweet. but the amount of vitriol he faced for it was absurd, and it’s still so strange to me how people instantly took his comments in bad faith instead of making the fairly obvious assumption that he was just saying “i consider myself to be part of this community.”

a quote i actually think about a lot is from when taika was on the vanity fair little gold men podcast (around 00:59:45) and got into talking about the stereotypical hyper-masculine culture of growing up in aotearoa, and i feel like it gives some insight into his feelings on this subject:

“I will tell ya, I grew up in a — a pretty macho culture and a very macho country. Where it’s like, you know, you play rugby and, you know, you drink beer, and it’s, like… kind of, life is just set out for you, and… how boring? You know? It’s just, like, you know, it’s like — people are like, ‘Well, I don’t want any immigrants here,’ and then complain that there’s only one type of food to eat. And so, it’s like… you know, that you… want to have an interesting life and you want to be able to — you want to expose yourself to art, and to — you know, to various cultures and various types of people. So for me, growing up, I… I was exposed to that from an early age through, like, on my mother’s side, especially. So it was, like… there were a lot of eccentric and interesting and weird artists and stuff in my life. Um, so it wasn’t, like, a later in life, big shock for me. It was always there. But I think I’ve realized that there are so many ways of being a man, and… and to be… just macho and to just want to be, like… just straight. Just to be, like, so determined to be straight, is… so… sad. And, like — and also is — it just feels so tiring. Wouldn’t it be so tiring just to, like, have to hold on to something that no one cares about? So — so tightly? And it’s, like, look, if you just let go and accept who — then we don’t have to have the conversation. We can talk about more important things. But the idea that we still have to talk about all of this is mad. (…) So, you know, it’s like… I would much rather have the discussions around, you know, more intense, more upsetting things that are happening to humanity than, like, who someone’s in love with.”

[thatprettybunny]

There are a lot of adjectives that articles and tv stations often use to describe you, and to their credit, they’re right.

You are the most gorgeous, intelligent, loving, ambitious and greatest young inventor Japan has seen in years.

But there is one word the papers neglect to utalise, or rather, arent aware of its existence.

You are a brat.

All it takes is for one thing to not go your way before your dishing out attitude to any innocent bystander within a 2 mile radius.

Today seems to be one of those days.

Katsuki pulled up to your warehouse around ten minutes later than he’d told you he’d be there at, and when you get in the car, it doesn’t take a wiseman to know you’re fuming.

You slam his car door shut, not even offering him a pleasantary before asking him why the fuck he even bothered wearing a watch when clearly he couldn’t fucking tell the time.

Katsuki’s face initially scrunched up, possibly to yell at you back, ask you what the fuck was your problem, but then his gaze caught your hands. They were left slackly placed in your lap, but his gaze immediately zeroed in on the way your thumb slipped back and forth over the skin of your index finger.

Thats when he remembered. Tonight was your big meeting with that one super important space company. He remembered listening to you almost obsessively talk about what you planned for the interview and all of your cool new ideas for space gear.

Shit, you were nervous.

Katsuki took one more chance glance at you, this time watching as your leg bounced aggressively in the passenger seat.

Without a second thought, Katsuki swung off the highway at the nearest exit. Ignoring your protests and every half hearted retort you make.

Instead he pulls into the nearest Coffee drivethru.

He heard the pin drop silence that you fell in as he rattled off your favorite coffee order with the addition of diabetically sweet pink donut.

When he handed them to you, he saw you were finally done shaking, instead your lips pressed into a trembling line, and your eyes shut quickly, small tears pricking at the corners.

Katsuki reached his hand for your jaw and gently tilted your face towards him. “You’ll be okay Baby. You’re prepared, and you’re gonna kick ass at that interview, alright?” He asked, voice as soft as he could manage.

You gave him a small nod, letting your face fall into his chest , after which he gave you a small kiss on the forehead

Yeah sure his girlfriend might be a brat on occasion, but from years of observation, Katsuki could read you like a book, and he always knew exactly what you needed.

[dustthecrow]

#Strife be like 'Share' 

*younger sibling voice* Mum says you have to share and that it’s my go

Strife: So, how's y[our] human doing today?

Death: Shut up, Strife.

[transmcytshowdown]

Ok so a couple of streams ago, someone notified Eret that he’s in the finals of this tournament. This caused him to open tumblr for the first time in months. Apparently, he kept looking through some tumblr posts after the stream concluded, leading him to find @dissonantharmony (Pluto)‘s dsmp c!Eret quiz. He took it and posted his results.

Treyhara, who does not have a tumblr account, then saw Eret’s results and thus found Pluto’s account. For additional info, Pluto does a lot of archiving and collecting old dsmp content. Treyhara then utalised tumblr’s feature to submit things as an anonymous user (which you don’t need an account for) and asked them if there was a place where they could put some old vods they had found.

Pluto pointed them towards a bunch of resources, which lead Treyhara to he realisation that six of the vods they had, three of Tubbo’s and three of Eret’s, hadn’t been uploaded or saved by anyone else.

They’re currently in the process of uploading them, the first one is already up!

haha that's so cool!! i'm so glad those were found- and that i helped somehow???? idk, these polls have been crazy :D

10/10 job guys, hit the showers

[surr3al1sm]

A few days ago, @new-and-disturbed-theorist shared that they were experimenting with playing Just Dance while putting the joycon inside a fishnet glove. I thought it was pretty genius, so I wanted to give it a try and see whether it affected the maps' scoring in any way. And that's what I did today!

I compiled a small playlist of a few maps from each difficulty and played the playlist through once while using the glove and once while holding the joycon, as Selios intended. The results of this are under the cut :)

My hypothesis before hand is that the glove might have a similair effect on the scoring as the wrist band I bought a while ago does, which tracked worse than simply holding the joycon does. Onto the actual experiment!

Easy Maps - 4 in total - 7 Megastars and 1 Superstar Girlfriend (Played as P1): With the glove: 13051 Holding the joycon: 13112 Basically the same, but this map did shift the joycon for a few moves so that affected tracking.

Toxic (JD2 edition): With the glove: 13126 Holding the joycon: 12886 Some moves track better while using the glove, although that might just be because the movements are a little softer than when I do them without the glove and the tracking

Part Of Me: With the glove: 13000 Holding the joycon: 13166 If you do this map with the glove: make sure your joycon is secured very tightly. I had to restart it because my joycon decided to fall out. Not my proudest moment.

10.000 Luchtballonnen (Played as Klaasje): With the glove: 11808 Holding the joycon: 13161 I noticed with this map that a certain section of the chorus does not track well with the glove (probably due to your hand usually facing a different way) which is also simulatiously the part where you score a good chunk of your score.

Medium Maps - 4 in total - All Megastar Crazy Little Thing: With the glove: 12243 Holding the joycon: 12652 The joycon shifts a lot here too.

Judas: With the glove: 12363 Holding the joycon: 12496 Today just wasn't the day to play Judas so excuse both of these scores they were my fault LOL Boy's a liar Pt. 2 (Played as Brunee): With the glove: 12611 Holding the joycon: 12836

Bloody Mary: With the glove: 12688 Holding the joycon: 12684

Hard Maps - 3 in total - All Megastar Can't Tame Her: With the glove: 12529 Holding the joycon: 12387

Greedy: With the glove: 12317 Holding the joycon: 12564

About Damn Time (Played as Luke): With the glove: 12728 Holding the joycon: 12686

Extreme Maps - 1 in total - Megastar WANNABE (Played as Rosaria): With the glove: 12220 Holding the joycon: 12294

In conclusion, I honestly didn't notice any big difference like the wrist band had. Most of the scores fall in the same range as you can see. It was a little easier to dance with the glove because you of course don't have to worry about holding the joycon, but it can have some wild effects on scoring like seen in 10.000 Luchtballonnen. I do think I'll be utalising the glove if I don't care all too much about scoring that day to make life easier, but when it comes to trying to get a good score on the dance I think I'll stick to holding the joycon for now. But wearing the glove is a good alternative if you don't want to hold your joycon!

[guangchuans]

i have really little to say about it and i cried because of that fact. full adam dot com review coming tomorrow now i am so eepy

i'll play sims and listen to new taemin.

[eunkitarot]

hello, can you do sunoo's ideal type.thankiesss💜💜

Hiii sure💜 since im free from exams I can finally relax and channel my energy😭

So here are the cards I pulled for Sunoo's Ideal type:

The magician: with this card I am getting someone that is confident. Sunoo like someone that seem to have this air of charisma.The migician is someone that is persuasive, often exuding a powerful aura that draws others to them. They possess an innate ability to influence and inspire, using their emotional intelligence to connect with people on various levels. The Magician’s charm is their tool, enabling them to navigate social situations with ease and grace. So possibly someone that works in a career that influences others like musicians, idols etc. Someone that is charming is what he likes. But even though this person is charming they dont use that skill against others or selfishly for their own benefit.

King of wands: again this card too points so someone that is charismatic. Sunoo is attracted to someone with leadership vibes to them. Someone that can be in control and can lead him. King of wands too means this person that he prefers is someone that is intelligent and passionate about their life. Does not matter what aspect it may be. Whether their career or their personal. So Sunoo likes people who are determined and fiery when it comes to achieving thier goals. I think he find someone that is focused on their goals and not letting other stuff distract them is so attractive. He admires people like that.

I dont know why i am getting a feeling this is a specific person he thought of. Someone he knows that is like this but he is not on talking terms / close with them. I am getting someone he is admiring from afar. Someone he just greets and bumps into. Its giving out of reach here, and i dont think he wants to reach out either because he thinks that this person is working hard right now and he dont want to disturb.

Ten of pentacles: so to sunoo he wants someone that he can eventually settle down with. Someone he can have stability and family. I think he is thinking when all of this is over, when he can finally reap what he sow, maybe his finance and everything is in place, he can live happily with this other person that also already achieve abundance in their live. He seeks something permanent and stable, so someone family oriented and slightly traditional would be great. He wants the simple and chill life.

The Emperor:again another leadership vibes so far we have 2 cards that have massive masculine energy. (we are not touching gender here, it could be a female that has masculine energy). So sunoo likes some authoritative and structured. He prefers someone that is calm that have their shit together and someone that don't panic easily. They just know how to deal with stuff. Someone that is composed is what he likes. This person might also be very disciplined and someone that prefers to use logic. A head over heart type of person. Someone strategic.

Overall/bottom of deck justice: overall sunoo prefers someone that is fair minded, balanced, and operates with a strong sense of ethics and equality. Despite all the characteristics above, Sunoo wants someone that utalises their ability in a good way and not abuse it. He likes someone that is decent and someone simple that can understand him. Sunoo wants someone that can be independent , i dont think he likes a person that is too reliant on him. He believes in equal partnership.

In conclusion, i think Sunoo just like someone that is confident, have thier shit together, self-reliant and know their self worth. To him he wants a partner that he can be proud with. Someone that is brave to get through life and make no regrets. He actually like someone that He can rely on too. Someone he can lean on.

I hope you like my read dont forget to like

🤭💗

[misscryptidart]

"- so when you cast the Commander from the Command Zone, they're abilities are now active and they can be used as long as they don't have summoning sickness. For your commander's abilities in particular, I would most likely use it in a Control deck, where I - as a player- have more influence on the board state than someone who would utalise more phase - based mechanics... hey, you good bro?"

Socrates, still trying to comprehend the existance and implications of a late 21st century time traveler who used unbelievable technology to travel back in time so that they can explain some carboard game where his most impactful effect on philosophy is a tap ability-