#and why no other Masters showed up

[theramblingvoid]

Ok but the real question about the flight of the Masters (I say, as if there's not a dozen of them) is: why didn't we get more of them joining the fight? And why did we get those ones? Fires is pretty obvious, it doesn't want the Sixth City and that seems to have been the alternative to beating the Starved. I don't know enough about Pages or Iron to know their possible motivations, but also what was keeping the others from joining in? Did they disagree on the plan of action? Did they just not care about the city enough to fight for it? Alternatively, it's hardly like any of the three seemed to be struggling in that fight - did they just not think the situation was bad enough to need more of them? I'm so interested to know

[liaprime]

Unmasked and bare he stood and gazed upon this world consumed by raging storms. His reflection stared at him with eyes so stern at the figure of a fragile man with a mind so strong but the flesh so humble. The task ahead near insurmountable that a man no longer he shall be. For his desires and the future he foresees a stalwart idol he must become to defend from all the lies and things depraved. He shall destroy himself to do what no one dared - to fight for an Empire unmarred.

[msue0027]

Martha Jones - Jesus Christ parallels (never thought i'd write a sentence like this)

there's the other one who has sent me

For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken. I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say. (John 12:49-50)

Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. (John 5:24)

I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me. (John 5:30b)

I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is trustworthy, and what I have heard from him I tell the world. They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father. So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me. The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him. (John 8:26-29)

[...] for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me. (John 8:42b)

etc., and so on...

[skunkes]

having struggles with hobbies and enjoyment and creativity again

[asmidge]

where was Yamcha in resurrection f 😐

[tevatron]

i'm so glad i won't be working with my pi after this month. i think i've reached my limit. i just can't deal with her anymore

[timegears-moved]

revali in the entirety of age of calamity just makes me go HE WOULD NOT FUCKING SAY THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

[novelconcepts]

hi novel! i just saw your yellowjackets and american gods post and you managed to articulate something that's been rattling around in my head since I saw the first episode. I feel like in popular culture, "lost in the wilderness stories" like lord of the flies tend to be viewed as "watch these people become uncivilized." But with the yellowjackets, they're not necessarily becoming uncivilized - they're just creating a new society / culture that has set roles (butcher, acolyte, prophet, etc) and rituals (the card game, the masks, etc.). One of my favorite things has been watching the team slowly develop the customs that will eventually become the well rehearsed hunt we see in 1x01. Like I got really excited seeing Shauna cover her face with the scarf to carve up Javi because I was like "oh is this why the end up wearing the animal masks." To your point, if you built a society from scratch and were isolated in it for almost 2 years because that's the only way you could survive, it's probably very hard to return to the old one which is also essentially new. Blame it on my sociology degree but I fucking love analyzing this show and your meta is amazing.

Yes, this exactly! Like we love to pretend these stories are about the brutalist nature of uncivilized behavior, but that’s not it at all. It’s about finding what works to keep people safe and fed and going. You shed the parts that are just…extraneous, and you learn new skills you’d never need in suburban New Jersey, and it’s all just a shift to a new kind of perspective. It’s so interesting. Especially because we know “civilization” isn’t that different, in certain ways. It’s just about what society deems palatable. It’s not okay to stab someone who upsets you, but we see in the Taylors, and in the political event Taissa attends, that people will say truly vile things and just paste a smile over it. That sort of behavior gets dropped in the woods because it serves no one. It’s replaced with violence, but both kinds do damage. So we have a bunch of kids who have spent 17-18 years learning the rules of society, and then have to unlearn them in a hurry just to survive. Those who can’t shift their perspective, acclimate to the new rules don’t make it. It’s violent, and it’s devastating, but it does have rules. It’s something I can’t wait to see more of down the road.

[musical-chick-13]

So the problem is. That I don't want to call Ten-cubed "fourteen." I think Ncuti should be. Fourteen. He IS fourteen.

But if I want to talk about Ncuti's specific incarnation of this character. And make it clear that I am talking about him. I will have to call him "Fifteen." But doing that means that everyone involved in this ridiculous naming decision wins.

[hoardlikegoldenirises]

thinking about Mac's scars for the AU and what his face ends up like. two different kinds of fucked up. Aesthetically I prefer the one on the right and might go for that one... I think it's a little more accurate to how i describe him grabbing his face when he bonds with Red anyway. Left is gnarly fun though.

bonus carnorpion sketch:

tfw you get your ass kicked by a guy with metal octopus arms and then accidentally give life to and bond with a symbiote clone bud and also your jaw has been destroyed and the symbiotic being you've bonded with is not in a state to properly heal you, et cetera.

suffice to say, symbiosis goes differently for mac than it did for peter or trish. lmao.

[greenleaf4stuff]

*going through blogs of my current fandom like an archeologist trying to gently uncover artifacts from times past*

[soft-serve-soymilk]

Working on my Inigo side story while I’m doing my amigurumi for the craft market and damn. Disigo writes itself 😅🥺☺️

[artificer-dice-mj]

The first time something works, it's a fluke.

The second time something works, it's a coincidence.

The third time it works, it actually works.

At least, this is the philosophy I use when making prototypes for things.

I finally reached the fluke stage of the prototyping process and just started the second test. I have a bit of cleaning up to do on it, but I have not been this confident about any of the other iterations and if I get consistent enough results, I can actually move on to other dice shapes! (As much as I just love making a ton of d6s, I just want to be able to move on to the others too)

[ssaalexblake]

hard fandom conversations surrounding moffat setting up the story around Missy in such a way that the next version of the character had to come back evil after her, or missy’s good deeds would be considered void and everything she did would literally have been hopeless and for nothing. 

I mean, I enjoy a good tragedy, doesn’t bother me (like, i don’t like the story Unless it’s viewed as a tragic mess, but that’s a whole other post), but at some point y’all gonna have to look at this arc and realise that Moffat set it up so the master’s goodness Had to go unnoticed and unrewarded to be a successful moment of true virtue, and that therefore the next person to write the master would have to make them #evil to preserve that moment of good in the timeline.

The person you’re mad at is Moffat. Not Chibnall. It’s Moffat. He set the rules because his story was never once meant to make the master one of the ‘good guys’ now, and because this was a good way to explore their potential for good without ruining an iconic villain of tv that’s been around for 50 years, i imagine. 

[everyfandomsprincess]

Eyyy another person who sees Morro as a good kid!! Though this is less for movie AU bc I think he would've had more time to explore other avenues in the movie verse + he actually gets to be older and taller than the ninja whereas he's younger in show-verse. I know show!verse Morro is kind of a trash panda, but in post-S5 redemption AUs I always struggle to see him as someone always picking fights and cussing and being super goth and emo and "I hate Wu" and having panic attacks and guilt, etc. He will be a little shit to Wu when he wants, but he literally defaults back into being respectful afterwards. And alright he IS shown to have a remorseful and sad demeanor without saying the words, mostly I think there will be a lot of communication dodging and him smirking and trying to be unflappable around the other ninja, but different around Wu. So you have to crack his persona a bit to get into the carefully hidden issues he loves to convince himself he doesn't have. I also think he would struggle so much just to choke out the words "sorry" and actually mean it bc direct communication will literally kill him. He'll do literally anything else to prove himself as different but dear god is trying to get him into a sincere vulnerable redemption arc while simultaneously trying to address the elephant in the room like trying to get a struggling wet cat back into the bath.

Oh absolutely,

Morro definitely isn’t the kind of person to talk about any feelings wethers their his or others.

In an AU where he sticks around and joins the ninja I can definitely see him doing more acts of service to make amends with the others

With Wu I seen him as being distant. This is still that man that made him believe he was this special person for probably years. Then Morro also thought that Wu didn’t go looking for him after he left.

So I can see the two of them trying not to fall back into their old rhythm

Despite that I still think he would be very punctual and be too if his game with training. Like we always see the others tiered when they half to get up for training, but Morro? Morro’s already been up for at least an hour and has done his own stretches and training

He would most likely have guilt about his actions and feel remorseful but that would take a while to manifest. Or at the very least for the others to pick up on that and that his actions are a way he shows affection (wether that’s helping/saving the other ninja from danger or giving them good advice while training or not taking the last of the pudding from the fridge)

But Morro is shown to use the line between fearlessness and recklessness like a jump rope. I mean he made his home base on a village built directly above water! Y’know the one thing that can destroy ghost and is ultimately the entire realms downfall! So I can see him putting his life on the line more than once to prove his change to the others

[the-cat-at-the-theatre-door]

Girl help I’m getting emotional about how much Munkustrap admires Gus the Theatre Cat again.