tekilangels

[incorrect-bg3]

Tav: having a demon boyfriend would be so great because you could hang your shopping bags on his horns and hold hands while buying groceries

Lae’zel: you could just wear a backpack

Tav: I want a demon boyfriend though

[pinchan]

my mom likes geto :-)

[sun-marie]

BG3 has two of the most thoughtful, unapologetic, no holds barred depictions of men with abusive female partners I've every seen (Wyll + Mizora and Gale + Mystra), which is so rare to see in any media but especially video games, and some of the Larian writers seem determined to convince me it was 100% by accident

[heartorbit]

I love your talking/ranting in the tags of your art. very underappreciated art form and I've only seen myself and like two other people do it. go forth mighty warrior tell us what youre doing tomorrow in the tags of your art post for myself and the other three ppl who read them!!!

helpme Thank you brave warror i'm not in the habit of talking about myself on social media but something about tumblr tags has me laying on my stomach kicking my legs with a glitter gel pen like it's my diary. Except then people reblog my post (very nice) and tag it laughing at MY tags and i'm like FUUUUUCK PEOPLE CAN SEE THAAAAAAT (● ˃̶͈̀ロ˂̶͈́)੭ꠥ⁾⁾

[ludinusdaleth]

it is Interesting how any time ashton (titan blooded, therefore native in game) or any bipoc player/character raises aaaaany question about colonization/the gods actions in exandria, which the narrative pretty actively wants, people outright say they need to learn their place. deanna questions pelor and people say aabria is pushing it and doesn't get matts themes. frida is cold at the gods for destroying their home and people theorize theyre evil. bor'dor is COMPLETELY dehumanized by fandom overnight for falling for cult rhetoric bc of his family being slaughtered and wanting a solution to that agony. people say dorian should be "reeducated" bc he has anger at the gods killing his brother (are you KIDDING me. are you. KIDDING. me. saying that about a native mans character).

maybe the reason a side of the fanbase clings to more "anti god" (to others standards) beliefs is because the vast majority of the fanbase otherwise will not spend even 5 seconds analyzing the patterns of players/characters and why they found their way to their exandrian beliefs, or their own patterns in how they understand fantasy. c3 is astounding in how much it wants to self analyze and yet id argue the fandom is more blatantly racist than ever because they need to defend a fictional rhetoric over processing what's being asked of them by the narrative, even if they come to the same conclusion as before. just.... try, to notice patterns, including within yourself, and the meaning behind them.

[doctorspaceman]

Thinking about this exchange in "Chapter 58: Old Friend" of Pluto... rant/spoilers below the cut.

I think it's apt for Tenma to consider himself “the only one who can save [Abullah],” as Abullah’s absolute contempt of humanity follows the loss of his children. For their parallel experiences of loss, Tenma may rightly be considered the only one who can “save” Abullah. Yet Tenma’s insistently passive, misanthropic behaviour throughout Pluto raises the question of what he thinks it would mean and take to "save" Abullah, and what the result would look like.

At this point (Chapter 58) in the narrative, Tenma has allowed Abullah to live for years as the world’s most complicated (and therefore dangerous) robot, never attempting to monitor, track, or control him. Instead, he permits Abullah to roam the Earth, guided by a rage that is also Tenma's rage: the rage of someone who has lost everything to the carelessness and violence of other human beings. Abullah's post-death freedom to navigate and 'live' unimpeded on Earth thereby embodies the continuance of Tenma's unchecked grief and rage over his loss of Tobio. This is bolstered by the fact that Abullah (or technically Goji, but I'm not untangling my take on that distinction here) is a material creation of Tenma's in the aftermath of Tobio's death. On a slight tangent - it brings to mind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, where the Creature, reanimated by Victor, roams the wilderness, driven by an unchecked thirst for vengeance. I've encountered a lot of criticism identifying the Creature and Victor as doppelgängers, and I think a similar identification can be made for Tenma and Abullah: each pair with one driven by a treacherous ambition to create, the other violently subjugated (also racialized) and driven to vengeful destruction.

That said, Abullah's experience of loss does not simply parallel Tenma's loss of Tobio, nor does his character merely embody Tenma's emotional response to losing Tobio. Abullah’s death and revival also re-enact the death and reanimation of Tobio and re-double Tenma’s experience of these events. 

The re-enactment occurs on the basic narrative valence: both Abullah and Tobio die avoidable deaths resulting from the carelessness of others (for Abullah it’s world leaders, big picture, for Tobio the driver of the vehicle, small picture) and experience a sort of re-animation through Tenma's science. 

The re-doubling occurs on both an emotional and symbolic valence. Tenma worked in the Persian government lab, developing the Goji AI for Lord-knows-how-long. It's safe to assume he had little to no human contact in the interim, given that if he was identified or reported to be in Persia at that time, the consequences would have been extreme. Further, Chapter 48 suggests Abullah is one of Tenma’s only points of contact with humanity — if not Tenma's sole point of contact with humanity, the only flesh-and-blood person in his life — for those months to possibly years. That said, when Abullah dies in the Central Asian war, Tenma's primary touchpoint with humanity dies for the second time — the first time being the death of Tobio, who was his only family, son, and entire world. 

The factors of paralleling, re-enactment and re-redoubling prime Tenma to consider Abullah in the above scene as both dead and alive, a victim and avenger. Yet even with the above context laid out, the reader can only guess whether Tenma here perceives Abullah as reflective of Tobio or himself, an amalgamation of them both, or something else entirely. So who exactly does Tenma think he can save?

On one hand, Abullah’s existence embodies and reiterates the “Atom-is-not-Tobio” dilemma. For Tenma, attempting to save Abullah could mean lodging another effort to improve his AI, such that it better resembles the living-Abullah personality and thereby 'rescues' the deceased person. This effort, repeating (with the hope of ameliorating) the unresolved Atom-is-not-Tobio problem, could be read as an exhibition of stubbornness, ego, or repetition compulsion. So saving Abullah could mean the possibility of saving Tobio, or the inevitability of losing Tobio again and again.

At the same time, Abullah raises a mirror to Tenma’s unexpurgated devastation and misanthropy. So it's possible that, for Tenma, saving Abullah means saving Tobio — thus saving Tenma himself from his own grief. 

There is one other option I've considered — the simplest and (in my opinion) the unlikeliest: that Tenma envisions saving Abullah as the carte blanche act of alleviating someone else's suffering, that he considers the effort to alleviate anyone's suffering worthwhile. I honestly don't think this is what Urasawa intends or expects the reader to take away. It would be characteristic of Ochanomizu, sure, but not Tenma. That said, the ambiguous possibility of Tenma recognizing Abullah as a redeemable person seems purposeful. It opens up the text and enables the reader to consider the narrative and characters with compassion and grace. It also opens up what could be the only path which, if taken, would lead to the effective moral “saving” of either man, to the possibility of this redemption, perhaps not in the action but in the aftermath of Pluto.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[a-usernamelol]

YALL KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS!!!! MORE SCREENSHOTS FOR EVERYBODY!

Once again bringing up that I’m tired of seeing posts strictly for the female fans of the game. So here he is in all his glory, the absolute (bisexual??) icon of the franchise! Doesn’t matter if you’re a girl or a guy- or in my MCs case- something else, chances are he’s going to try his hand!

HAVE SOME FREE SEBASTIAN BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE❤️ PEACE AND LOVE ON PLANET EARTH

[jebiknights]

'theyre boss and indentured employee" though i agree snd i find codywan annoying bc is everywhere and ppl dont even tag it and act like is default, rexwalker is also boss and indentured employee 😭😭 😭 still love them lmao

I mean yeah lmao pm all of the Jedi/clone commander ships have this power imbalance. The post was about how fan bases act lol. rex/Walker fandom ime at least is much more willing to admit and confront the imbalance (tho keep in mind that doesnt mean they do it WELL) esp compared to Cody/wan fandom. It's always been one of my biggest beefs with cw fandom, that they handwave away the power imbalance, the age difference, etc. while at the same time being really judgy about many of the "problematic" ships and characters. The fact that they act like it's canon and everyone ships it or should ship it just elevates that frustration.

[plate2]

Sometimes I'll just think of insane crossovers with characters I like despite fully knowing no one has read any of these combinations of books, nor would they ever interact. Like, I could go on and on about the similarities between the Bailey and Sorenson siblings (Land of Stories and Favlehaven) or I could go on about three different Jacks from different books (Half Upon A Time, Mighty Jack, Jack Blank). I could look at Nova Artino and Alex Knight (Renegades and The Cloak Society) and while they're for very different ages there's similarities. Alex from Alex Rider and Carson from Codename Zero would likely never interact but by God do I think about it. I could name so many: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Seven Wonders, Revenge of Magic, Beyonders, The Lies of Locke Lamora, etc, etc, etc. I am going insane over so many different books that have little semblance of connection, saying they each have pieces of one another within. And these fanbases (if there are even a fanbase for each of these books) would rarely ever interact.

So I'm just left here, reading books in my pajamas, deranged

[wizardsix]

astarion stans who refuse to try befriending or even romancing anyone else are the most annoying mfs. "I only romance astarion I just can't relate to the other stories" really? you can't relate to gales deep self loathing? his deep love and loyalty for those he cares about? you can't relate to wylls kind heart and desire to always do good, even if it means he's miserable? can't relate to shadowheart blindly following a god, only to learn the truth and reinvent herself? you can't relate to lae'zel or karlach who were lied to and used as weapons their whole lives, but continue to push on even when they're scared? you can't relate to the overarching theme of authority vs autonomy???

it's not difficult, it's just people refusing to appreciate and explore the game to its fullest bc their manipulative sexy vampire is all they need(something astarion actually loathes being seen as btw). but ok, you can be boring and do whatever you want, but don't lie and say the other stories are bad, because they're not. it's simply a lack of media literacy and critical thinking. because to you, if a character doesn't tell you point blank that they're aware of their situation, it's bad writing. missing the entire point that victims don't always realize the situation they're in. keep in mind astarion and karlach are the only ones who got away from their abusers, which is why they tell you clearly and confidently about what happened to them, fully aware that it was abuse. whereas the others give only their tunnel visioned perspective and speak highly of their deity(not caring about themselves, wish to appease them for something in return).

don't get me wrong (seriously, if I see one person misunderstand me I'm going to lose it) astarion is a good character, but people who only like him need to stop acting like he's the only complex and well written one. stop crying when people with brains call you out for being weird about his ascended ending. the game isn't about him. at least try and show some respect to those who worked hard on the game. make an oc and try new things, i promise the fictional vampire won't care if you don't romance him one run. have a drink with shadowheart, dance with wyll, go to a restaurant w karlach, maybe then you'll calm down.

[vaugarde]

against my better judgement im watching a reupload of the lily dunmeshi vid and seeing how she starts off her vid ranting abt how much she hates her own fanbase again really reminded me how like. ngl i feel like watching her vids contributed a lot to my mental health issues as a teen lmao

[terrorizings]

hey i just fell down one of the most bizarre rabbit holes i’ve ever fallen down that began with a tiktok ai reading an r/amitheasshole reddit post and ended with whatever this puppet sex homestuck arg (?) was. Having spent the last two full hours absolutely enraptured with this series of blogs, i was wondering if anyone involved in this bro strider muppet nonsense knows @the-muppet-joker or who’s behind that account, or if he’s just an unrelated guy that just so happened to frequently reblog and interact with the 6 of you guys. I have significant reason to believe that blog is another elaborate bit (as it’s the reason i got here) so it would be really fucking funny if whoever runs that account (be they genuine or not) just so happened to stumble upon your shitposts while searching for horny muppet posts and started reblogging then. either way props to you for doing all of this and good luck on whatever daisy brown alantutorial shit you wind up making next because you are all definitely going places. sending this ask to all of you individually btw.

I think I may have been the first of the blogs to get interacted with by the muppet joker, as I received an ask from him relatively early into my blogs tenure and simply let it steep until the other folk started hitting his line and interacting with him. That being said!

No fucking clue who that dude is.

I assumed it was all a very elaborate bit since it's all within the same realm of internet-referencing (particularly, tumblr related internet-referencing in the realm of making wide gestures towards things like tumblr sexymen and error sans from error(??) undertale) bullhockey as every ambitious blog parodying weird fetishes. In combination with his interests being specifically two bastions of internet memes, the joker and kermit the frog, I think he's just a guy who's really committed to the bit.

That also being said.

I got an ask saying he'd gone crazy and was actually doing crazy shit, so. I don't know! Maybe he is just a genuine guy. But I sure don't know who he is and he sure didn't have anything to do with my stuff.

[tomboyyyaoi]

i just need trigun to be my own thing for a bit all my fav blogs are dead and the alive ones have some takes and interpretations i do not vibe with. im taking these dolls into my own corner for a min

[sexybritishllama]

been scrolling through some of the dawntrail opinions on 5ch today

[lord-squiggletits]

One of my least favorite parts of how JRO wrote Optimus is that he wanted so badly to continue his dark and gritty world building making the Autobots problematic, but evidently couldn't reconcile this with Optimus being a Heroic Paragon, so instead he leaned way too hard into "oh Prowl was the one who did this and it was behind Optimus' back" which if anything I think makes Optimus look worse, not better. Because then it's like, okay I know Optimus trusted Prowl a lot as his friend but you CANNOT TELL ME that over the course of 4 million years, Optimus as the leader of the Autobot army who literally would have access to 99.9% of all the records they produce, would never notice or question where some of these odd/inconsistent details were pointing. It just seems really inconsistent with how a real military would actually function, especially regarding Optimus' character, who is incredibly thorough and responsible and wouldn't neglect to keep up with all the details of his army.

Hell, Optimus knows who the Wreckers are and had them on call for tricky operations when he needed them (Stormbringer) so he's literally not at all ignorant of/averse to the use of special wartime units composed of dubious individuals. He's the fucking commander of an entire army, of course he knows that War Is Hell (TM) and no one's hands are clean. That's not even getting into all the stuff he got up to in phase 2/3, I mean everything from the annexation of Earth to OP breaking humans out of prison against Council orders shows that Optimus is no stranger to immoral and/or unlawful means.

It also leads to a lot of annoying fanon where people write Optimus (sometimes unintentionally, sometimes not) as like some sort of ignorant fool who's unaware of the machinations of his own army or has some sort of naivet�� of "b-but we can't use bad tactics against the enemy! I would never condone the use of morally gray means in war!" No, IDW Optimus knows perfectly well all of the bullshit he's enacted/condoned for the sake of trying to win the war. Some stuff is definitely out of character for him and was only machinated because of Prowl, but I think this fandom REALLY underestimates Optimus' personal agency/responsibility as the commander of a whole ass army and ESPECIALLY underestimates Optimus' capacity to condone morally gray Bullshit Of War while still being a good person individually as well as, comparatively, the lesser evil compared to Megatron/the Decepticons.

Anyways what I'm saying is JRO may be a good writer but he's really hesitant to make Optimus morally gray and does some asspulls sometimes to justify most of the bad things the Autobots did as "Optimus just didn't know," and since the majority of the IDW1 fandom only reads JRO's stuff they go running with this premise of ignorant/uninformed Optimus when there's evidence elsewhere in canon to show that Optimus is, in fact, very highly aware of the bullshit he's allowed "for the greater good" and the only stuff he was "unaware of" was the stuff he would literally never agree to the ethics of, like bombing innocent neutrals disguised as Decepticons to get them to join the Autobots.