#but i could never pull it off

[mostlyjustgoose]

one thing about this season of d20 that is absolutely driving me up the wall is how easily I can imagine Bruce Willis, at the height of his powers, effortlessly channeling Paula Donvaldson trying to pilot his body. it would have been one of the great comedy performances of all time. Oscar-worthy. he had the comedic chops, he could absolutely have sold being a thirsty middle-aged divorced lady security guard suddenly dropped into the body of an action hero!

[mikoriin]

blue pearl was another character requested! i do see the others in my inbox, ill definitely get to them, i just LOVE the pearls' aesthetic!

[backpackingspace]

Okay so with the line "the olive tree where we first met" we have two equal hilarious options.

When penelope was sassily like oh I'll marry you if you make a living bed out of this tree right here! Cue penelope stumbling over odysseus very very carefully digging up the tree "because how else is he going to get it to itacha we can't have a wedding bed out in the open in sparta duh"

Or

2. Penelope, knowing that Helen's suitors would soon be arriving to take over her home for a while. Snuck out and went on her own wacky shenanigan filled journey where she scoped out all the major players. Odysseus caught her spying in an olive tree. And when she got back she told Helen she had dibs on the cutie from itacha.

[bikananjarrus]

live action star wars is never going to give us the heartfelt emotional scene of ezra seeing lothal again for the first time, at least not in the way that we deserve. seeing him land on the planet and walking wistfully through the tall grasses, loth cats trailing in his wake; walking through the city with a bit of a heavy heart because these streets and buildings are so familiar, and yet so different at the same time, because the city has grown and thrived in the empire's absence. we're never going to see him crying quiet, joyful tears because he's finally home.

[arcanegifs]

if we got a caitvi kiss in act 1, with jinx telling vi that she hoped they wouldve made whopee before their “final” battle, then yeah i think theyre the gonna fuck in act 3

[minhosblr]

He is my Roman Empire

Random Minho gifsets [2/∞]

[markantonys]

"they sacrificed rand's awesome instinctive daes dae'mar in cairhien in s2" you mean when he [checks notes] hung out at a party going "awwww she must really miss her husband" and completely missing all subtext and hints when noblewomen were hitting on him by telling him their husbands are never home? 😭😭 and accidentally made himself look mysterious by burning a letter to avoid answering it, aka exactly what he did in s2 as well

[kaykishi]

OK SO THIS GUEST CALCULATED HIS CHARGE PERFECTLY TO LUNGE HIMSELF ONTO THAT WALL

NO CHEATS NO BUGS JUST A WELL-THOUGHT CHARGE

WHAT THE SIGMA

[lazylittledragon]

I know you dabble in the cosplay scene, will there be any Arcane cosplays in the future??

y'know i would've said no because i just don't think i'm suited for ANY of the characters, but i think i could throw together isha for my chill day at mcm in may!!

i'm nowhere near done with my Big one for this con so it's a terrible idea but i'm justifying bc i could actually use my real hair and not bother stying a wig adfjdhd

[ckret2]

Writing a character who's a brilliant manipulator is easier than you'd think, even if you yourself aren't a brilliant manipulator.

In order to manipulate somebody IRL you have to know how they think, what motivates them, what sort of things to say to convince them to do what you want them to do, and how to frame it in a way that makes them trust you rather than get suspicious. These are all relatively difficult things to figure out about another person.

However, they're very easy things to know about a character. If you're writing a manipulator's victim, you already know how they think etc etc because you're writing it. You're in control of their backstory and personality. You are god and know exactly what kinds of things would persuade them to take action and what kinds of things would make them distrust somebody.

So all you have to do is go "because the manipulator is so so smart, they've also figured all this out" and feed your own authorial god knowledge into their head. Make it a tiny bit inaccurate & saw off the details so that it doesn't look like the manipulator is psychic. For extra credit, deliberately write in a couple little clues for your manipulator to pick up on that will let the audience go "wow! Look how observant the manipulator must be."

And if you're not showing your characters' thought processes, it's even simpler. You don't have to be able to manipulate a REAL person; you just have to write your character attempting to manipulate somebody, and succeeding at it.

[bumblingbabooshka]

VOY Memes: He's always just had an extremely heavy brunch

[butihadsimon]

So minimal school spirits fandom that I now know exists, what do we think about the theory that this whole thing started bc of a science experiment gone wrong?

(I could be misremembering here so correct me if I am) Mr. Martin and Janet died in a fire in what is now the fallout shelter, and in one of the articles they found another student in the class was blaming Mr. Martin for starting the fire and bringing Janet in there with him.

what if

stay with me here

what if, they were doing some kind of research experiment together (hence the chemical formulas in the beginning of Janet's notebook, and the shorthand) that went wrong, and what they'd done of that experiment plus them dying in the room in the fire with it, trapped their souls there.

which raises the question, when Mr. Martin locked her in that room, was it with the watch? was she experiencing that freaking red room thing relieving that day over and over for months? is that what they were arguing about right before Maddie found them? was he making her relive that to try and figure out where the mistake was in their experiment, because he wanted to try and redo or reverse it and that's why Mr. Martin was trying to force her to tell him what she saw?

as far as we know date wise Janet and Mr. Martin are the oldest ghosts, they've been there longest, they could very well be the start of it all.

[jovalencia]

I always thought it was the inevitablity of cannibalism but it must be the whole birders thing that has everybody begging the yellowjackets to talk about what happened in those woods. because anybody with two brain cells to rub together could see that if two birders went missing near where the yellowjackets were found that there's probably a connection Especially since they're being so cagey about their time out there

[beautifulstorms]

Kao Miura, FS Umbrellas of Cherbourg • Skate America 2024

[heavens-dooor]

you know i thought nanba sounded reasonable when he told ichiban to be himself until the game reminded me that he's insane

[sesamestreep]

sexy himbo jock interpretations of James Tiberius Kirk are silly and do a disservice to the character for a lot of reasons, not least of which is that it fundamentally ignores all the times in canon when Kirk is faced with a scientific discovery or oddity and you can see the effort it takes for him not to clap and skip with excitement. like in ‘the devil in the dark’ when Spock posits that they might be dealing with a silicon based life form and McCoy’s like “but that’s impossible!” and Kirk literally crosses the room to flirt talk excitedly with Spock about the prospect and how it could work! and what it would mean!

What I’m saying is, Kirk’s gotta be smart and a huge dork because how else could he pull a bad autistic bitch like Spock?