#and whose back is fucked up

[death-rebirth-senshi]

I was so proud of myself for pushing past my executive dysfunction and making myself finally mop our disgusting basement floor only to discover today that I really shouldn't have done that for physical "Your back is fucked up it hasn't even been a week yet you idiot" reasons.

[svtskneecaps]

i also just want to point out the qsmp members' commitment to like never letting the inactive members die. like dantdm logged on twice and is canonically dead and everyone continues to blame mysterious happenstance on him. spreen is canonically dead and yet people are still like namedropping him even tho the house façade he built has been demolished and also probably consumed by a mountain. they meme on kameto who's barely been on except that time he was a fed spy that was iconic as hell. they just immortalize their members and they're always so happy to see old faces come back and it lowkey makes me emotional lmfaoo like missa barely logged on for a while but goddamn nobody forgot his name bc philza can't go one day without mentioning him and mariana barely logs on but every time fit saw the homeless mariana in roier's city no matter what he'd stop dead and tell it "come home" and when slime came back to the server for elections after having logged off for the last like two months everyone was still excited to meet him bc the others had kept his memories on the server fresh and alive, maxo died canonically in the nuke and pierre pasted his face all over the server, luzu vanished for months and we never forgot him either thanks to the computers and foolish's wack ass family tree. like when purgatory teams were chosen and team red constantly joked about how it would be so over for the other teams once germán logged on despite the fact that germán had only ever logged on ONCE, the way they cheered when they snatched rubius in the split of green despite the fact that rubius hadn't logged on more than twice since march. they just keep the names alive all the time and it's like

it just makes me really happy to see. like it makes me really happy. like the admin team and the members alike are like 'no way in HELL are we letting your memory go' like damn once ur on isla quesadilla you really are stuck as an islander forever :D

[carlyraejepsans]

ghost trick was amazing but how the fuck do you make a game where unburying people is one of its core mechanics and then don't unbury the dead wives. are you kidding me with this crap.

[hmsdoodlin]

Soul probably thought that as soon as they brought Heart back from apathy everything would be ok again. Sure he knew there’d be pushback, heightened emotions and snarling. Heart wouldn’t be happy when he came home, but Soul was sure they’d get back on track soon enough.

How could he be so naive?

All he got was an empty husk, something staring at him that’s devoid of any life. Heart doesn’t speak, he barely even responds, apathetic and broken for days on end.

It gets to a point where Soul is crying, begging, shaking him and wailing for his Heart back. He wants him to cry, to speak, to scream, to do anything!

He misses him so so badly, it’s almost as if he’s dead.

Apathy had consumed him whole. And Soul has no idea how to fix it.

[beautitudes]

iwtv 2x01 (2024)/the kiss of judas by jacob smits (1908)

[imthursdaysyme]

Guinevere convincing the officer she can chill her husband out

[elvisqueso]

Pochontas (1995)

wiggins meta under the cut

here's the thing: ratcliffe is constantly being explained as a representation of the forces of greed and racism and colonialism/imperialism (arguably this can translate to capitalism as well), but what about wiggins? what is his role? he most obviously plays the role of the Fool, and provides a character for ratcliffe to have consistent dialogue with. but what does he represent?

i have a theory that wiggins is meant to represent the ethnic english, the culture of the english, and the willing servitude of the english to the evils of imperialism/greed/racism in exchange for a sense of superiority and security. wiggins is, paradoxically, both above and below the settlers in terms of status. he's a servant, but he serves the highest ranking man there. he's a yes-man, but he's also brutally truthful (spelling out for the audience ratcliffe's motivations and the immorality of the settler's presence and actions).

wiggins is also a caricature of the english to a T: he resembles many a self-styled stereotype of the typical englishman in english comedies. he's prim, a bit fussy, obsessed with gardening, a bit oblivious and silly and somewhat incessantly cheery. he's drawn, also, like an english caricature. his teeth and upturned nose in particular stand out to me.

the line "and he came so highly recommended" from each of these characters is so fascinating because of this because it highlights the mutual consent of these two allegorical characters to be involved with each other and subscribe to a master-servant dynamic, wherein ratcliffe has invested in wiggins to be useful and efficient, and wiggins has invested in ratcliffe to provide security both financially and socially. ratcliffe find's wiggins's personality (the cultural quirks of the english) trite and unnecessary. wiggins found ratcliffe's extremity to ultimately be outside of his own best interests once it could no longer protect him (ratcliffe being no longer able to provide the status and security once he was put in chains).

we can't be sure if wiggins has truly learned a lesson, however. he remains in America with some of the other settlers instead of returning to his homeland. we don't know what he intends to do there, or why he's made this choice. perhaps he's going to try turning over a new leaf and assimilate to a new society. perhaps he's going to try and influence his way into a similar position as before. in any case, we know wiggins's core motive is always going to be self-preservation. what that looks like without ratcliffe and the protections of aggressive imperialism, we simply don't know.

[mercutiotakethewheel]

ok so realistically i know theres important character reasons Kendra (and Seth and Warren by extension) never suspect Gavarog. It’s the old society trick to set up threats as team bonding exercises, etc, etc. plus this is a new and unfamiliar world thats rapidly overtaking her real world and replacing all her existing relationships, and right now Gavarog’s like the only member of her magical-worl peer group, so she doesnt want him to be a traitor, just like she didnt want Vanessa, her only female mentor to be a traitor, etc , etc.

but also i wholeheartedly 100% believe that every time Gavin did some truly bizarre, weird ass shit Kendra was just like. damnnnn…. average home school kid behavior.

[transmascutena]

thinking about how akio sees his younger self in utena and wondering if there's any fondness there. doesn't change the horror of what he does to her obviously but i do wonder

[arctic-hands]

I always say the shingles saga as an immunocompromised sixteen-year-old was my near-death experience but then my mom will occasionally make musings of the time my heart stopped when I was 8 and I'm like oh yeah that happened

[kuratm]

I JUST RETURNED FROM THE MOVIES AND HOLY SHIT? HOLY FUCKING SHIT, SONIC 3 BLEW ALL MY EXPECTATIONS, IN BEST WAY POSSIBLE! 😭😭😭😭😭😭

spoilers under read more!

first and foremost, THE REFERENCES TO SONIC ADVENTURE 2! THE BIKER SHADOW SCENES! THE AKIRA REFERENCE! not only it put a big smile on my face, but brought SO MUCH NOSTALGIA to me. i shit you not, when they played live and learn, my inner child screamed and jumped in joy 🥺 also the def not obvious references to snapcube sonic LMAO i've come to make an announcement-

secondly, THE SCENES WITH MARIA AND SHADOW HIT ME SO HARD! they were sad in video games, don't get me wrong, but THIS MOVIE? holy shit, they amped up the sadness of it - leaving me a crying mess in the cinema 😭😭😭

thirdly, the fucking part where ivo and gerald (both portrayed by jim carry) went "it's almost like we're the same actor in a movie!", made me LAUGH so fucking hard MKDMRKFMTGMTMKG holy shit, i never laughed so hard like i did in that moment

additionally, i wanna say it's interesting what the movie did with gerald's character - bc in the games, he was more so a background character and the victim who was forced to create shadow... but, in the movie? he's actually a VILLAIN, which is honestly a really nice change.... but also, the way he died with a fucking fart and poof 😂😂

also, the way sonic and shadow mirror each other is PHENOMENAL. they mirrored each other in the games, true, but it wasn't as IN DEPTH as it is in this movie, and i just... i really love how they added more character in these goofy fellas ;u; made my lil heart spark with joy

last but not least....

REVENGE GUAC

[shima-draws]

Seething at one of the tags on that poll saying FMA is a military + genocide apologist anime have you even WATCHED it

[dreamyintersexouppy]

sending love to all head mates with complex relationships to the body, language isn’t build to adequately describe our senses of identity and that’s fucking rough sometimes! However y’all choose or opt out of labels, I respect your choices!

thank you! but i think that's the thing about it, tma/tme (from how i understand it novas a good explainer but idk if im a good rememberer) isn't opt in or out, it just describes something that exists already, and while my identity as a boy is real queer how i get treated while fronting is still more affected by how people see the body. it feels like a tma if you don't know me/don't know im fronting and tme if you do but even that seems strange (nova says: that sounds like just tme to me cuz of the opportunity to opt out but it could be more complicated). i think the language is good but i also think it matters more to me to be an ally to nova and all my transfem friends than to think forever about where i sit in a framework that wasn't made to benefit me. in the end that stuff is for trans women and as funny as the joke of boy headmate in tma body is i think my position as boy headmate makes me not the authority on actual meaningful discussion

[swallowtail-ageha]

*video by a self proclaimed historian archeology with mary on a cross dramatic beat in the background fake crying hand on mouth in instagram reels* here is a funeral epigraphy of this young roman lady who got murdered by her husband! People especially men were such beasts right then and haven't changed much! *shows epigraphy where parents of murdered girl both father and mother denounce their daughter's murder as something abominable and either way Very Much Not Uncaring of the girls fate*

[noahtally-famous]

listened to dancing in the flames by the weeknd for the first time and my first thought went immediately to chaleb?? and i can actually see it??

imagine them driving down an empty highway windows rolled down in the early morning hours, already going kind of over the speed limit; the only lights being their headlights, the few dim street lamps, and a rare passing car. caleb has the wheel and is arguing with chase when he unbuckles his seatbelt, partly balancing around the gearshift, with half his body out of the sunroof, pumping his fists into the air, cheering loudly, pulling his phone out to record himself, and egging caleb on to go faster ("you drive like my grandma and she died before i was born!") and caleb's eye-rolling going "i rlly don't feel like seeing you fly out of the car and explain this to the ER" and "im your rationale, even if it means saving you from your shitty choices" and chase is like bOOOO LAME

but...caleb speeds up. just a little. bc he likes hearing chase laugh (he's a romantic like that, what a sap smh) (and alternates between looking out at the road, and looking up the sunroof at chase. growing dopey smile and all)

[igbylicious]

Helo.. Sorry if it's been said in the story already and i just forgor, but what is Wooyoung's job in Whichever Way? :3

haiiiii ♡ omg Isak i can’t with how incredible your timing is alskdjkasdj the next chapter opens with the reader visiting Wooyoung and his coworker Seonghwa at work (ᵔ◡ᵔ)

it hasn’t really come up before, there was only a tiny lil ‘blink and you miss it’ mention in chapter 7; Wooyoung works at a flower shop (◕‿◕✿)