#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-not-just-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

[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.

[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

[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.

[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!

[1loer]

I think a lot about another version of DR3 where it goes more in depth into a story where Junko grooms class 77 into becoming more susceptable to despair by utalising their talents their status and their own insecurities before brainwashing them .

I always think about Mioda in this situation. I want to know more about her relationship to Maizono. I don't think its fully confirmed that they really had anything to do with each other, but it would've been easily explained considering they would've been in the music scene at the same age. Mioda started as a pop singer, even got recruited by an idol talent group before she went her own way. With her own very elitist views on music, I just think it could make a very interesting relationship between the two of them.

I always imagine them with some like underlying tension. Not so much a rivalry but something difficult neither of them have ever really spoken about. Sympathy is a Knife - Charlie XCX vibes. That Mioda doesn't want to be her, and couldn't be her even if she tried, but feels jealous and insecure around her regardless because of how much more successful Maizono has gotten in the same amount of time. I can see some bitterness coming in from Mioda's POV too. She's a proper metal elitist, so she'd see it as Maizono getting ahead by just following the status quo and making ""easily digestible brain dead music"" whereas she could view her own art as ""real"".

Maizono would be able to sense this tension and feel unsure about it, not wanting to back down to someone who looks down on her, but also feeling her own jealousy in her own way about how free artistically Mioda gets to be whereas Maizono, as an idol, is mostly bound to whatever her company deems to be "comercially viable". Despite how much trust I'm sure her company puts in to Maizono and her group, that's a constant. That's just what it means to be an idol. Plus, if there was a moment where they were training together and got along, then I'm sure Maizono would imagine another line where they could've performed together. Now they don't and wont ever. Maybe it's a bit bittersweet. She wouldn't know that Mioda is insecure and feels jealous of her, I don't think she'd even think it for a second, but she'd know theres something there and wouldn't know how to fix it, or if they even need to. What would be the point in fixing it? They don't mean anything to each other anymore.

But its always there. And because of this uncertainty none of them address it. Just has the makings of a really interesting and complicated artist to artist relationship.

[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.

[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-

[brella-boi]

Building Dango: Part 9

It's time to prepare the jaw.

While the head was made to fit my face, I think I ended up with some discrepencies for the jaw size. I probably shouldve added a lot more foam to the top of the head, because instead I ended up with almost 2 inches of extra foam in the jaw so I can move it properly. Oh well.

It is a little too deep too, something I coulve and probably shouldve fixed in the cardboard stage. Why didnt I do that? A mystery of fuck around and find out.

EITHER WAY!

The base has thin 1cm thick foam inserted to elevate the teeth that are going to be in it. But then I realise the jaw angles upwards, so I had to add artificial gums as well for the rest of the teeth.

I knew going in the jaw wasnt super symmetrical, so I did end up taping up the whole entire thing to make sure it will all fit and get the pattern that way. Cutting it off the jaw was a greulling process and I also sliced my finger open which was fun to hear my friends yell at me.

After that I finally bit my fucking tongue and actually fitted the head properly. With elastic. One horizontally, and one vertically to create a faux dome. Of course I had to cut through the black foam on the top of the mask to fit the elastic through.

But Jay- how do you attach this elastic?? Are you sewing it through the foam?

NO!!!

We are back to using the strongest bonding agent we own- contact cement. With a piece of 2mm low density eva foam on *top* of it to keep the elastic stable and the bond stronger. I will say. That if i really were to pull at it, it would rip off. Because its not actually stuck to the foam... its stuck to the paint and varnish. So lets avoid that scenario shall we.

After that I started fitting on more foam to the top corner, and then using 1in upholstery foam I built the back of the head. The dummy head I bought just for this is finally being utalised. I was quite stressed about this part because I did not have a lot of upholstery foam but it was all okay in the end! And it came out pretty nice and snug :)

Next step: The neck scales.