#battle to be able to exist

[gltzgghln]

kirb08 mrls characters ft phsc

[lloydfrontera]

'lloyd is very weak now and needs to marry so he'll have someone to protect him'- lloyd has the only grandmaster on the world following him around like a puppy. he has the most terrifying motherfucker on the world wrapped around his little finger. he has the one person in the world who can hit an absolute in the head and get away with it swearing in his heart to protect him no matter the cost over and over again.

lloyd made javier watch him die twice right in front of him just to keep him alive. there is no power on existence that could make javier allow anyone or anything to even think about harming lloyd again.

lloyd is fine

[pbnmj]

Genuinely curious, what’s up with Noir’s age? And what does it have to do with his 08/09 run? ((You may ignore if you wish :D))

i no longer have to do an extremely long explaination about comics noir because it has already been done here, by foolsocracy!!!!!!! really great breakdown of his very vague age, which is never said outright in the 08-09 run, only implied!! my own personal take on this is that he's 17-turning-18 in the first one, just about graduated high school but not able to afford college (see the panel below LOL)

this also got a little longer than i thought it would, so under the cut for the rest of it! the tl:dr is "itsv!noir is not the same as comics!noir, and people saying that he's 19 isn't strictly true. to me, he's around 30!"

eyes without a face (the 09 run!!) only takes place 8 months after, in september 1933, which makes peter 18-turning-19. this is more of a headcanon though!! (see the noir birthday poll, which made me a noir-is-a-december-baby truther)

(peter being a libra is mentioned once in the first issue of amazing spider-man (2015), mostly as a punchline, and a specific date of october 10th was given in another issue that i have lost. other media, like with the mcu, has his birthday on august 10th. but to me noir is a sagittarius and you cannot pry that from me)

the 2020 run of noir begins establishing the year as 1939, making peter around his mid-20s, and 25 if you believe me on the 'peter was 17 in noir 2008' LOL.... i won't lie though i haven't read this one properly i very quickly skimmed so pinch of salt regarding my takes on the 2020 run

noir being in his teens during the first original runs is why "itsv!noir is 17-19" goes around so often! i've seen that on tumblr, twitter AND on tiktok and i don't mind what people hc, but it has become a pet peeve when people say it like its canon even though it's never been mentioned by the writers or the art book. itsv!noir is similar to his comic counterpart, but his differences in his origin story make me interpret him as a different noir (like how peter b.'s dimension is 616B, making him... 90214B?)

again, we are straying from itsv canon/etc here because i'm deranged, but i personally hc noir as being 32! some of my friends think he's in his mid-20s, others think he's older, but really the only reason is that 32 is the midpoint between the other two peter parkers: ripeter was 26 and peter b is 38. he's also voiced by nic cage, which makes me think older in the first place!

i just like the idea that he's more experienced that ripeter, but hasn't gone through as much as peter b. he spends most of the movie being broody ("moral ambiguity of your actions!", "matches burn down to my fingertips", etc etc), or snarkier than you'd expect ("it's that easy" "who are you again?" "you gonna fight or are you just bumping gums" etc etc). he also very sweetly tells everyone that he loves them before he leaves !!! i feel like it can in fact be in character for a peter parker in his late 20-early 30s, distanced from his tragedies in his own world by time (he doesn't forget them, that's different !) being able to look out for the spiders around him.

okay now we are VERY deep into hc territory, but it makes him able to balance out the rest of the itsv spider-gang as an older-brother figure who's able to guide peni, miles and gwen but also be able to act as a voice of reason for peter b. and ham if the sitauation calls for it. that being said noir is still peter parker and is therefore capable of spider-esque tomfoolery, which can lead to him misjudging the need for a snarky one liner ("this is a pretty hard core origin story"). my characterisation of him is also very inspired by heyitsspiderman, the itsv fic that changed me for the better, and noir isn't even in it that much LOL

veering back into itsv!noir's age and your actual question though: he's always read older in the movies, and not at all 17-19. noir is always going to be around 30 (32 if i have to give a number) to me!! if anything, he did go through the same kind of 'canon events' as comics noir did, but is an older and more experienced version of him, with tweaks to the backstory (like a radioactive spider instead of a spider-god, and webshooters instead of organic webbing). there are reasons ofc to see him being younger (egg creams are non-alcoholic, and that if it's 1933, his comicsverse self would be 18-19 too) . however you must consider that sony didn't expand on this and therefore it's up to fan interpretation and also that

[fayoftheforest]

Hey, by the way, when I talk about people treating Kyle's faith as a personality trait, this is the kind of shit I mean:

STOP DOING THIS. PLEASE, STOP.

I understand that memes like this are deliberately hyperbolic and intended to be humourous, and that this type of language is most likely a byproduct of the casual antisemitic jokes in the actual show, but that is no excuse. Titling Kyle as "Jew 💀" on a "tag yourself" meme is fucking awful. Suggesting that there are a set selection of personality traits that are a byproduct of, or can be summarised by, being Jewish, is deeply antisemitic. Even if this is was attempt to acknowledge common experiences based on a shared culture, the classy addition of a skull emoji does not particularly convey a respectful tone.

The subtitle "literal Jew" does not help matters - in fact, it arguably makes it worse. What on earth was going through the creator's mind when they wrote it? "Hmm, what if my followers think I'm calling them Jews in the [greedy/scheming/insert stereotype here] sense? Better clear that up for them with this handy clarification: 'I'm saying that literal Jews should all be classified in one category.' There, that's better (:"

If your gut reaction is to defend the creator who "meant it in good fun" and "probably didn't know any better," please consider how I or other Jewish people might feel when we stumble across this meme. Bare in mind, I did not Google "antisemitism in the South Park fan base to find it. This popped up whilst I was minding my own business, scrolling through Pinterest, looking for goofy screenshots from the show. Do you think it made me feel included? Do you think it made me feel understood? Do you think I felt welcome in this fandom, when I checked the 80 comments and saw that not one of them mentioned how slightly-less-than-fantastic Kyle's section is?

Now, maybe there was an ally out there who saw this and went, "Huh, that's a bit shit," and then decided to keep scrolling instead of engage. Fine, great, whatever. They get to keep scrolling, to carry on with their day and let the minor hiccup melt out of their memory. But Jewish people don't always get to do that, man. This kind of casual dehumanisation sticks. It stays in the back of our mind. It adds to the mounting feeling that we are not welcome, we are not wanted, and we do not belong. And that's not so easy to move on from.

[spacedlexi]

thinking about clem vi and minnie

[soft-serve-soymilk]

More random head children musings (aside from the really sad one because that deserves better than a throwaway post):

Honestly I think it’s very fortunate that Dism’s team isn’t *entirely* comprised of lucid dreamers.

[whimsical-sonic]

[tactician]

the 3ds' online service is going to shut down soon - and while pkmn bank isn't going to be closing along with it, it has me feeling kinda antsy about getting all my ideal ribbon masters in order... so i've put some of my other pkmn-related projects on the backburner in favor of collecting ribbons on my croconaw and my raikou! while i don't plan on documenting their shared journey as intensely as i documented reides' quest (those posts are REALLY helpful to me now btw omg - im hoping that this go-around is a bit easier with them as a resource!), i'm planning on taking LOTS of pictures :D

once these two have gathered everything that they need in emerald, laverath the manaphy will be joining them in gen4!

[illjustpretend]

man baldurs gate may be my game of the year

That's so hard to admit considering tears of the kingdom also launched this year. And it blew my socks off too. It's a marvel of game design. And I haven't even gotten to play starfield yet...

But baldurs gate is in another ball park for me. Because I've been playing since early access, I've had so much time to form a comfortable nostalgic attachment to many aspects of the game.

Plus because it's more niche in its appeal (than Zelda at least), following the development cycle, watching the player base grow and interacting with the community has really felt like a more connected experience. Certainly more connected than waiting in silence for 6 years for totk (not a dig, honestly it's fine and I get it).

AND it's one of the few games in a long time I've been able to actually play with my IRL friends. It's just basically the perfect recipe.

I can sing Larian's praises all day but I can't say anything that hasn't been said a million times already. If you haven't played this game yet, PLEASE DO IM BEGGING

[cogentranting]

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[goldensunset]

taking my lizard motorcycle to therapy

[merkerlerspeaks]

I don't know what's happened in Miraculous Ladybug after the New York special but I have a feeling they took Gabriel and made him even worse so if they did I am simply ignoring that and deciding that he stops being a little punk, asks Ladybug for help with Emilie, apologizes to Adrien and becomes the father he needs him to be and also Nathalie is able to heal both physically and emotionally from the whole "assisting in terrorizing Paris because she's to smitten to say no" situation that happened.

[tvxcue]

i get that s2 wasn’t what people expected or wanted but it literally wasn’t ooc or badly written. y’all are just annoying.

[disabled-battlekukku]

if sega makes tails adventure a classic exclusive thing i'm gonna cry. a lot/neg

[please-bequiet]

My hyperfixations really just repeatedly have me in a state of "could you imagine if you someone loved and cared about you very deeply"

[vaugarde]

wow its so awesome that team rocket is able to reunite with all their pokemon that they havent had the chance to travel with again in one final stand and who theyve endured thick and thin with despite their villainy bc they are still family……. oh and also their unova pokemon are there too i guess