#backdrop people

[mentagenesis]

Non Player Characters.

In our recent blog post Banishing The Body Snatchers, we put forth the premise that a body without a soul could be compared to a vacant house on the Real Estate Market. “Lights are on, but nobody’s home” would be another way of explaining the concept. And we supposed that just as a house can exist but not be a home, a body can be animated by the collective consciousness without having a soul.…

[stump-not-found]

take the parts of me i cannot stand, and replace them with what you can no longer carry

when i look at my reflection, let it be some rotted version of you

[abellarts]

[ID in ALT]

Harvey blush sprite redraw :DD

[silusvesuius]

this drawing is from a couple mouths back now; ......but i still like it 😝 forbidden love as witnessed by ms. Varona. it killed off my traditional art kick when i was done with it, but i had fun. i used very faint watercolors for this one just to see how well i'd do with them and pencils together. my favorite part of it is this tree, love how it looked in this WIP pic i took:

and some random bits of the drawing but closer because i do love pencils as yk✍

had to compress the whole pic a bit cus it was huge, but a version that's a bit better can be seen heare, still not the best it could be, still crunchy, but better nonetheless

[crookedfivefingers]

3.13 | ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴀꜱᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ʟᴏʀᴅꜱ

link to the post I accidentally wound up prattling endlessly about in the tags 💀

[porto-rosso]

barbara trying to integrate cass into civilian life via boys and reading when all she had to do was sign her up for amateur rugby

[allisonreader]

I just watched a trailer for Snow White because there was an article about it that passed up.

I once again find myself wondering what the point of a live action movie is, when 50% or more of the film is CGI.

It might as well be animated by that point.

My family and I discussed this when the "live action" Lion King first came out. (A movie I refuse to watch for the principal of the thing.) We came to the conclusion that if a movie is mostly or all CGI it should be called something more along the lines of Hyper-realistic or something similar, rather than live action. Because if the film's 90% CGI, that's no longer really live action at that point.

[likeabxrdinflight]

tired of early 20-somethings acting like harry potter was never good or had no value in its day like shut the fuck up half of you weren't even there when it peaked

[peachdues]

my hot take of the day is I despise people who do photo shoots at cemeteries and graveyards

[bugwolfsstuff]

Okay so i've mentioned my Dionysus's aunt Ino takes Dionysus/Bacchus/Liber's kids who end up in Elysium in hc

But I like to add onto that and talk about how every few years (or how they perceive years, time works differently for the dead) the kids put on a play of the history of Thebes/their family for the newly dead ones.

The play itself is hilariously bad, despite the fact that most of them are theatre kids and or have some power over theatre

Like the last time they did it, which was for Castor and the triplets that died before him and Pollux were born.

They managed to rope Hermes into it as Zeus (he's on his yearly week forced vacation)

Yeah.

Never again.

and none of them take it serious EXCEPT for the Sack/Battle of Thebes part. Then they all get serious and professional with a full ass orchestra . Like Prince of Egypt type shit.

Not out of respect because it's Ino's and Polydorus' home and at least some of them probably died in it

But because they get to show off and be dramatic and it's enrichment for them

@smileyalater @thel1ghtningthief @unubinary @bodeyeen2132

[unironicallytes]

sharp-as-night is my queerplatonic husband and we go on fishing trips together i will not be taking criticism at this time

[carnelianwings]

Something I find really funny is how for all the rumors that Seed’s staff/writers don’t like Cagalli, Orb under her leadership just keeps ending up in a better (political) position with each addition - Seed Destiny ends with Logos wiped out, Blue Cosmos severely hampered, and the entire Seiran family wiped out, including Yuna. This leaves Cagalli with almost no political opposition in Orb (since the second Battle of Orb would’ve flushed out a majority of the Blue Cosmos/Logos sympathizers within the government/military), along with giving her a boost in popular and military support thanks to her actions and field leadership during the battle.

(Cutting for me just rambling on a bit about the in-universe politics after Seed Freedom)

You can tell with how much she’s managed to get done in the years between Seed Destiny and Seed Freedom - in that short year and a half to two years, she was able to propose and found COMPASS, secret away and upgrade the Impulse, Destiny, Strike Freedom, and Infinite Justice, arrange for ties between Orb and Terminal to investigate/exchange intel (Athrun and Meyrin), and put into place all the evacuation/defensive protocols in case of another attack on Orb (as seen vs Foundation and Requiem, even if she needed Kira to pull an “I lived, bitch” to Aura 😅).

And it doesn’t end there - thanks to Foundation, Cagalli arguably has an easier time internationally now, because the Eurasian Federation leadership also got hit and the Eurasian Federation, while not necessarily Blue Cosmos sympathizers like the Atlantic Federation, was very staunchly anti-PLANT, which I think would’ve caused some problems for Cagalli, especially post Seed Destiny with Lacus joining her for that broadcast.

I actually think Orb probably has fairly decent diplomatic relations with PLANT (I think Chairman Lament mostly cut off that call after everything went south in Eldore because of the whole nuke situation), especially since Lacus is COMPASS’s inaugural president, plus the time both Dearka and Waltfeld (I’m not sure if he’s in Orb or PLANT as of Seed Freedom since his silent cameo has him helping to stop the coup in PLANT in Seed Freedom) spent there. And we have a very prominent all-Coordinator team with the Yamato Team - truth be told I actually wonder how much the Earth Alliance invested into COMPASS because everything we see on screen is either contributed by Orb (Archangel, Murrue and crew, Kira, Mu, and the Murasame Kais), PLANT/ZAFT (Millenium, Konoe and crew, Heinlein, Shinn, Lunamaria, Agnes, Gelgoog, and Gyan), or arguably both (namely, Rising Freedom and Immortal Justice). Unless I missed a minor crew member along the way. Which is possible.

Also pure speculation on my part on this - but the fact Seed Freedom has Athrun going into intelligence with Terminal (which we first see as having a presence in the PLANTS) from the Orb side and Yzak and Dearka going into intelligence from the PLANT side can’t be a coincidence. I want to think the three of them decided on it together because being in intelligence/covert ops gives them the chance to work together without having to force anyone to change their current loyalties - I don’t think Athrun can be truly loyal to anyone except Cagalli after Seed Destiny, and Yzak was always loyal to PLANT, and if Dearka hadn’t been captured and made to realize how extreme PLANT had become under Patrick Zala he wouldn’t have switched sides to Orb/Three Ships Alliance during Seed either. Which also indirectly feeds into Orb and PLANT having better political relations than Orb and Earth Alliance.

Which brings me to my final point - I would be very surprised if Orb isn’t the primary target for the antagonists in a Seed Freedom sequel. At this point Orb’s capable of doing too much with the limited resources it has as a small nation with too much military strength at its command. And there is room for a sequel (setting-wise) because while Earth Alliance took another major hit with during the Foundation Conflict, the ideologies that led to the First and Second Earth Alliance-PLANT wars still exist - even if Blue Cosmos lost another leader, even if the believers of Coordinator Supremacy lost another leader (in Jagannath) those ideologies still fundamentally exist. All the Foundation Conflict did was serve to take down the military leadership of those ideologies - even if the public on both sides see those views negatively it doesn’t make them go away.

[ouidamforeman]

why is all the dr who tv meta i see about like like last 10 years of the show all so depressing. i want people to talk about the show like edas fans talk about their magic talking animal books

[nerditudes]

STOBOTNIK Sherlock Holmes AU-- villains posing as a detective and his roommate. They solve a lot of crime-- but never the ones they commit. Together they frame anyone who grows wise to what they're really doing. Dr Robotnik and Sherlock Stone are quite the duo.

SHERLOCK STONES is a reserved genius. He and his good Doctor, Ivo Robotnik are rommates. Stone has one of the sharpest minds in all of the world. Though there are some who see him as more foe than friend. Stones enjoys playing the violin and the sound of silence.

DOCTOR IVO ROBOTNIK is the talkative, stubborn scientist. He's brilliant but a bit mad, they say. Stones' relaxed demeanor contrasts with the far more abrasive Doctor. He chronicles their adventures and peddles it to the masses as 'official' and 'firsthand' accounts of just how brilliant Sherlock Stones is. He finds the public too easy to manipulate.

IN REALITY they are a criminal duo. Robbing rare artifacts with unique properties-- possibly linked to aliens/higher technology. Some of which involves rings that can send folk to and fro. It seems Earth is considered a bit of a backwater planet to more advanced races. So despite having spacefaring technology

EGGMAN is the mastermind, the foe of Sherlock Stones. Dramatic and determined to see Stones fall-- he poses the greatest threat to the world. He's really only whispered about in criminal circles. More myth than man. His tech is cutting edge. He's got a flair for the dramatic and genius inventions and perfect plans to get what he needs.

AGENT MOBIAN is his personal barista and bodyguard. keeping him safe from the common rabble. Mobian [Agent Stone] helps as a sounding board/punching bag for Eggman-- but it's just what they do in the movies anyway. They find an alien specimen in stasis and decide to try and figure out how to wake him up.

EGGMAN STEALS a series of artifacts and strange items, seemingly unrelated. Can anyone stop him? Stones seems to have gone cold lately-- withdrawing from the public eye as word of his flatmate getting married carries around.

OPTIONAL ADDITIONS/OTHER CHARACTER INTERACTIONS: IN THIS AU

SHADOW is eventually woken up and the two take him in as their successor with their civilian [heroic] identities. Framing him as an up and coming detective found by the two while trying to hunt down the Eggman.

[Feels] Shadow serves as the assistant/protegee of Sherlock Stones and Dr Robotnik. He bonds with Stones over a love of music. Stones plays his violin every night. He seems to warm up entirely and Shadow gets to see the side of him reserved for those moments with Ivo.

[Wholesome] Shadow sees how the two interact. He knows he's their protegee but he finds it odd the two can't see what's right in front of them. He joins Team Sonic in their matchmaking-- perhaps finding his own along the way [cue romcom energy].

[Canon] What'll be canon to the fic-- Shadow knows Robotnik is Eggman and it's all an act. Robotnik sees Shadow as a great tool in orchestrating the greatest finale anyone's ever seen. He has all he needs to complete his plans as Eggman and plans a dramatic send off for Sherlock Stones. The Reichenbach Fall.

SONIC, KNUCKLES, TAILS, OR AMY as the aspiring detectives. Ending up becoming heroes and helping to thwart/fight Eggman. They look up to Sherlock Stones and Doctor Robotnik [for now].

[Feels] They keep getting close to who Eggman might be [he's always running away before he can be caught, leaving some mechanical monstrosity in his wake]. Thankfully these kids are harder to be rid of than your standard shonen protagonist. They keep getting close until one day they witness the fall of Stones-- at the hands of one of Eggman's machines. Shadow gets added to the party, hungry for revenge.

[Wholesome] They see Stones and Dr Robotnik and go 'that's not just roommates' and try to play matchmaker with the two. Comedy can ensue as they keep nearly uncovering who Eggman is for various reasons.

[Canon] What'll end up being canon to the fic-- the trio/foursome come together and make their own detective agency. They seem to be on the trail of Eggman better than even Stones himself! Well-- they say he hasn't been the same since Robotnik ran off to inherit his grandfather's estate. All he does his brood in his flat and play the violin.

[autistic-ben-tennyson]

People should really not be using Star Wars as their revolutionary praxis and guide for their political philosophy.

[mamawasatesttube]

you guys i have so many thoughts about tdr. i have so much to say. like i don't want to be super mean but dude that comic fucking sucks and i can't lie i think it made me kind of homophobic actually