#baffle ted talks

[hardcorephilza]

been really into art history and poetry as of late, specifically that existential shit, and god. the relationship between an artist that died 10 years ago and the historian archiving and analyzing their work cannot be overstated.

[callixton]

robby is getting to that place where i can’t keep up plausible deniability abt his sexuality and be canon compliant but idc i’m toiling in those mines to make that man homosexual all night long

[catboygirljoker]

Dealer's Choice Ask - share one or more fact headcanon or similar about a character that you want to share but no one's asked the question for!

i often see people talk about xigbar [of course im talking about xigbar] like he's a bitter misanthrope, someone who's angry all the time and doesn't like people, and i've never really understood that. obviously there are times in the series when he gets angry, and he says mean things when he is angry, but the vast majority of the time he delivers all his lines with the same unshakeable smug grin.

i realized, though, that im pretty sure people think he's an angry misanthrope because hes an asshole. and folks don't really consider that people can be assholes without personally disliking the people they're assholes to!

like...larxene, for example, [who to be 100% clear i love and support,] strikes me as someone who's an asshole because she personally dislikes everyone around her and is constantly irritated because of it. she treats roxas like shit because she's offended to be burdened with babysitting duty. she's hotheaded, snaps at people, insults them.

even so—she's horribly mean to sora in CoM, and i dont get the vibe at all that she personally dislikes him. i think shes mean to him because, she can be? because she has no heart, no conscience to tell her to treat him any differently, and because she gets personal enjoyment out of being mean to him.

i think thats similar to why xigbar is an asshole. xigbar doesn't hate the people he teases and prods and provokes and says wacky mysterious shit to. in my mind, xigbar's been alive a really long time, seen a lot of shit, is pretty jaded, doesn't really care whether people like him or not. in most situations, he holds all the information and has the upper hand, and enjoys lording that over people and watching them squirm. it's less about his personal feelings towards individuals and more about getting to feel in control and above other people.

he ribs roxas a lot in Days, but thats really what it reads to me as: ribbing. teasing, poking fun. xigbar doesnt dislike roxas—in fact i think he likes roxas (whether or not he actually cares for or wants what's best for roxas is a different discussion)—xigbar's just. a dick! he's mean not in a hateful angry way, but in an over-familiar way, like your second-least-favorite uncle who's never forgotten that time you tripped and fell flat on your face when you were six. [fuck you, uncle mark.] [salem blake may or may not have an uncle mark.]

being over-familiar, reveling in knowing more than everyone else, wanting to feel like he's in control and above others—to me, all of that maps perfectly onto someone who has seen a lot of death and lost a lot of people, all in pursuit of a goal he doesn't entirely understand, and who is no longer willing to try connecting sincerely with people. or no longer capable of it.

[rainofthetwilight]

BIG DAY FOR THE PEOPLE WHO THEORIZED MORRO WOULD COME BACK EVER SINCE DRS1

[i3utterflyeffect]

imagine one of the color gang is excited about earrings before finding out that they're allergic to the metal and can't wear em :( fun introduction to the concept of Being Allergic To Things...

^ brought to you by my mom being allergic to most earrings

I WAS THINKING ABT THAT WHEN SOMEONE MENTIONED CLAIRES IN THE TAGS. because a lot of people are allergic to shittily-plated earrings. i think the metal most people are allergic to is nickel?

anyway i think it'd be most ironic for Yellow to have a metal allergy i think. poor Yellow just wants fun earrings :(

[clumsycapitolunicorn]

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[misc-zeramara]

Eddie Diaz get behind me, I'll defend your honor 🛡⚔️

[lelengerine]

ohhh this is sick wdym my new jeno fic doesnt want to appear in tags but anything else i post will 😭😭😭

[hardcorephilza]

I was watching hbomberguy's new video and during the part talking about angryvideogamenerd and monster madness, he mentioned he used to watch the show when he was hungover during college. which as someone who is currently in college absolutely floored me.

I've heard stuff like "when I was in college this was popular" all the time but for some reason this particularly struck me and I'm not sure why. I was just immediately sent into a spiral of "I'm in college now! I want to make videos like this! Oh my god, will I be referencing things I watch now like this in the future? In a decade, when I am 28, will I be talking about how I watched dnd podcasts and minecraft streamers? Will I still be watching those shows then, will they still exist? Did people in college a decade ago have this same feeling? One day today will be the past. I am so young I am so old I am constantly changing."

And maybe this is me being dramatic but I got the same emotions from hearing hbomberguy say that as I do as an artist seeing old cave paintings. This isnt me making some snide joke "oh haha guy old" this is me trying to say I felt like despite everything being different, things are also the same. I use my computer to write research papers now, scholars used scrolls. I doodle on my homework, Onfim did too in the 13th century. But to have this feeling, the original work doesn't need to be from hundreds or thousands of years ago.

Hearing someone talk about their college experience so closely paralleling mine IS the same effect. Maybe he watched different shows, maybe media was so vastly different and I was barely even conscious as a living thing, but we do the same. College students then are echos of college students now, we are all just sleep deprived nerds listening to our little videos on our little devices and I think thats kind of beautiful.

I wonder if in the future, a college student my age now will find this post and feel the same. If so, hello!! Remember to turn in your final exam and drink water!! I'm going to go work on my research paper :-]

[callixton]

really obsessed w the mind of this person in the dropout comments section who claims that not only is brennan For Sure in a poly relationship w erika, they can't watch content with them and izzy bc they feel sympathetic pain for izzy after being in poly relationships before realizing they're actually mono. genuinely WHAT is going on with this person. at first i thought it was parasocial truthing of like the. positive-reaction shipping kind but no apparently they fucking hate the idea of them being poly and also cannot be convinced that this Isn't the case

[iamthescalesofjustice]

an eclectic group of wardens trying to figure out why they arent being swayed by the calling all the other wardens are getting and figuring out they were all joined either with the substitute archdemon blood from soldiers peak or by this one specific guy who apparently may not even be a warden. and then once anders meets up with them he hears this and gets visibly five times more exhausted and then he opens his mouth to finally start laying out the surana deep lore he has pieced together and well, its good news and bad news.

[lucifermagneswife]

Ok hear me out. I know Gojo is pretty popular in-fandom, but... Geto was canonically more popular with the girls, so why do I see so many people writing him as an insecure guy?

I love me some cocky Geto, manipulative Geto, charming Geto who knows how to make you fall for him oh so easily!!! Just more Suguru Geto

Pleaseandthankyou

[borreloadsavagedragon]

this fic project I’m working on for an upcoming shipweek is close to 20k and I’m just

blown away I can write this much about relationships

[junityy]

actually wild how Not junityy this pfp is but we ball regardless

[ungrateful-sneeze]

We all know Tony Stark is smart, and enjoys solving problems.

We also know that he lives showing off how smart he is.

I’m conclusion, I like to think that Tony runs a secret Minecraft YouTube channel where he is well known for revolutionizing redstone basically every update.

People keep commenting more and more impossible things for him to try and make and he always figures it out, baffling the Minecraft community.

The Minecraft devs hate him

Peters a fan of his channel but doesn’t know it’s him

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[multiivrse]

i really didn’t want to get into “shifting politics” but you guys are making me crash out. this may be controversial, but oh well…

all i need to say is that some shifters are WAYYY too open minded. i don’t care if there are infinite possibilities/realities you still need to have some morals…

not that my opinions are going to matter to some, but you guys accepting race changing like it’s nothing is BAFFLING. obviously i can’t stop people, but as a person of color, i take offense and the underlining reason i see a lot of people race changing is for “aesthetics” which is just disgusting. and i lowkey see it as racist 🤷🏾‍♀️

that’s just MY personal opinion, clearly i can’t stop y’all. however, you guys who partake in race changing also fight people who clearly state they don’t like it or those who don’t want people like that to interact with them. what happened to respecting people’s opinions???

i also just recently saw something along the lines of having your brother as an s/o in another reality isn’t wrong??? ARE YOU GUYS LOSING IT?? the post was saying something about how you don’t have the same kind of attachment to them or whatever the fuck. i can’t even begin with this. it’s disgusting, a form of INCEST, and if you see nothing wrong with that gtfo.

with an opinion like that it just makes it clear to me that these people haven’t even minishifted yet, let alone fully spent time in a DR and it discourages me even more. saying something as outlandish as scripting a person as a brother in one reality and then an s/o in another… this is one of the reasons people see shifting as a joke and at this point i can’t blame them.

yes there are infinite realities, yes you can script whatever you want, but that DOESN’T mean you should. let’s please use common sense.

we’re straying so far from REALITY we are shifting realities. this isn’t going to be a dream land. this is a real place, with real people, and real feelings.

if you read all of this, ty for listening to my ted talk <3