#but i don't pay attention to tags

[jezzariddell]

I am not surprised that after the frenzy of the first two episodes, I’m not seeing a lot about this episode. Because it’s a table-setting episode and kind of boring, and making a clear difference between this season of Criminal Minds, and previous ones: we’re not going to get someone spelling out the psychology involved: 

I noticed this with the last episode, when people were unhappy that the killer was giving people a choice between death and being paralyzed, and they chose death.

The main thing I’m seeing in the current season is that the BAU does not have time, or the script does not have time, to fully process the reasons for what the unsub is doing (I think this might be a plot point, because it bit them in the ass in episode 3). From context, it was very clear that a person who suffered a debilitating physical change wanted to present the people who cut him out of his life with the same issue, but with a choice, a choice the unsub didn’t have. You can be paralyzed and live, or you can die. Hypocrites chose death. 

(Real life experience cutting in here: my father can barely feel his feet. I’m probably in the first stages of spinal degeneration. It really does fucking suck, so spare me with “people should be okay with just being paralyzed for life”. If you don’t know how much this actually changes the way you live, you can sit down. Yes, of course, disability is better than dying. But we don’t live in a society that makes this an obvious or easy choice. How many jobs require standing for 8 hours a day? How does your self worth change when your hobby is hiking, or dancing, or roller skating and suddenly your body tells you to do it a different way? In general, we are functionally deprived of this perspective. So yeah, JJ’s response was disappointing. Someone breaking when he had to change wasn’t.)

Anyway, after that tangent, the episode, the table setting. That’s why it’s boring. We did learn a lot in this episode about the plot, a lot about the main villain, that he’s deeply in debt (because it turns out funding murders is expensive. That’s actually a little funny, because it was getting to be a running joke that every killer in Criminal Minds had like...an elaborate kill floor) and getting desperate, that the person they caught this episode was Penelope’s informant, and that we are about to get some episodes about the other two methods of death, likely strangulation and poisoning. Or not, because someone who gave the main unsub a lot of money just jumped the queue. In any case. I really try not to analyze Criminal Minds in a deeper context. I always love the characters, but it’s ultimately just a procedural cop show. I probably have more to say about everything but...for this show I’m usually there for the ride, and I ignore things at my leisure. 

There was some really great Tara relationship stuff. Rebecca knew she was putting her career on the line to feed information to the BAU. And I like that even though she was initially freaked out, Tara did see herself moving in with Rebecca (Tara, talk to Penelope please, she needs help). Honestly, I know like, no one understands it, but I love the office politics. If you’re going to have a hedge fund manager with a badge (Prentiss’s words), the maneuvering gives me life. 

[kyouka-supremacy]

Valentine's cards inspired by the most romantic chapters of the manga

[bratbarzal]

On Your Side (NH13)

Pairing: Nico Hischier & Fem!OC Poppy Jensen

Rating: 18+ MDNI (chapters marked with *)

Tropes: Friends to Lovers, Accidental Pregnancy, Fake Dating, Miscommunication, Slow Burn (Kind Of)

General Warnings: Angst, Smut (marked with *), Fluff. (chapters will contain individual warnings)

Summary: Poppy Jensen’s job with the New Jersey Devils was supposed to be her first big step into adulthood - a way to prove to herself and her overbearing parents that she could make her own way in life. She was never supposed to become involved with any of the players. Becoming best friends with their captain was stupid. Getting her heart broken by him was tragic. Getting knocked up with his child was just plain messy.

prologue

chapter one

chapter two

chapter three

chapter four*

chapter five

chapter six

chapter seven

chapter eight

chapter nine*

chapter ten

Bonus:

On My Side* aka Nico comes home to Poppy after scoring his first ever career hat-trick for the Devils, set around 8 weeks after the events of the fic

[pigswithwings]

but genuinely if you default to saying that random people and things have psychosis as an insult. you gotta change that. you have to think about why you say that. "this is psychotic" stop that shit. "these people are psychopaths" stop it. stop it what the hell. come on. real people have psychosis you think they aren't already associated with negative things? you think that helps anyone?

[zarla-s]

Being a Medic is suffering...

[patreon]

[oliartes]

I'm JUST NOW seeing this??

(The left side is the end of the very last DBS episode and the right is Goku and Vegeta's first fight in DBZ)

[iizuumi]

Side effects of wearing your Kaiju suit too often ,,,, Part 2

[tortilla-of-courage]

why does every single surface npc in skyward sword use male pronouns

like yes the goron have bested gender and dont care about that so they default to male pronouns for ease. they're born from rocks. bam. they're all brothers. and the gorons we meet in skyward sword care more about investigation or whatnot so they're like yeah yeah just use he/him. wanna hear about the legends of old?

and kikwi just Spawn from a bush or something probably. they dont even know what gender is. link and fi default to using male pronouns for them but like. you ask them what their pronouns are and they're like. pronouns? what's a pronouns? is that like another type of zelda...? kwee...

but what's the deal with the mogma. pretty sure they all use male pronouns too. did they hear the gorons use them and go yoooo i like the sound of that!!! let's use those too!! hey Ledd use he/him for me!! sure thing Kortz! Kortz he/hims treasure!!! yoooo!!! yoooo!!!

the only she/her users in the Surface before Zelda falls down are Impa and the Old Woman....... and i guess Hylia herself. where's my hashtag feminism,

[coquelicoq]

what i like especially about the pronouns in the goblin emperor is that this language doesn't just have the T-V distinction (aka informal vs. formal second-person pronouns, in this case 'thou' vs. 'you'), it also has informal and formal first-person pronouns. having BOTH of these distinctions in the same language lets you fine-tune your tone by mixing and matching. with only one axis of formality, when you use informal pronouns, are you being familiar in an intimate way, or in an insolent or dismissive way? when you use formal pronouns, are you being polite or standoffish? you can't tell just from the pronouns; there's ambiguity. but a language where you can use a formal first-person pronoun in the same sentence as an informal second-person pronoun allows you to distance yourself (via the formal first) while also being familiar (via the informal second), thereby achieving the conversational tenor known to linguists as Fuck Thee Specifically.

[zyanova]

Here is the storyboard for part 3 of the Transformers Earthspark Season 1 finale to "The Touch" by Stan Bush!

The moment I saw this post, I just had to add in the song! (I would have reblogged the original post with the video, but alas, Tumblr.) Credit for this video goes to @oldswifty , I just edited the song in.

BIG EARTHSPARK SPOILERS!!

I cut the first minute or so out since there's no other audio, so be sure to check out the link above for the whole thing! I wasn't sure when the song would end, so I just let it run for the rest of the video.

Original post, by @oldswifty :

[catocappuccino]

Her favourite colour is yello w

[little-tyrant-gortash]

First of all: I'd love to have his pretty crossbow. Reminds me of the glass crossbow you can get in Skyrim through CC.

Secondly, 14 STR??? If Astarion looks like the way he does with 8, I really want to see that 14 STR. Y'know. For science.

His stats are simply insane. What the fuck, Gortash.

*spends 5 minutes rotating him around, purely to admire him*

Okay let's take a look at his features. I missed out on it when I first met him because I was busy running for Cazador's ass. 🤣

Resistant to magic AND high spellcasting? 👀 Permanently armed?? Unarmed attacks seem logical, but crossbow expert??? 👀

He's a fucking prize.

[egophiliac]

I always though Mal's mom was meant to be like "Eleanor" but they stuck an M at the start honestly, Sobbing Emoji. But "Maleanor" also makes me feel less insane since in that scene where she's just handed egg Malleus to Lilia and went to battle, it sounds more like Lilia is saying "Maleanor" than "Meleanor" (Japanese accent pending). Mayhaps they went more with what it sounded like the characters were saying :0 (we don't talk about Doodle Suit to Paint The Roses)

the transliteration of her name is Marenoa (マレノア), which is what all the voice lines are saying! all the Draconias' names start with マレ (Malleus' grandma is Maleficia/マレフィシア) as a nod to Maleficent. :D it's almost certainly a take on Eleanor, which is Erenoa (エレノア), but her name is written in English at a couple points, and I was pretty surprised to see it was Mel instead of Mal!

and, like, that's fine, it wouldn't be first Twst romanization that's tripped me up (like Keito for Cater, I know that's something to do with the loanword specific to playing cards(?) but it's just not how my brain wants to read it). but now Eng has given us Maleanor! and someone else said it was spelled inconsistently between Maleanor and Maeleanor??????? so WHO KNOWS it's a SPELLING FREE-FOR-ALL

I AM torn on which I want to use, because Mel just sounds so cute to me (and is what I'm used to now), but...the Mal consistency is kinda too good to pass up. alas, alas, truly these are the most difficult conundrums of our times. 😔

[foreignswaggersession]

alright i'm gonna say this as nicely as i can. if you actually think louis ate his nephew you're an idiot not paying attention. that baby wasn't just a baby, it was his NEPHEW, grace's child. once again, i'm asking you to think seriously - if grace left her baby alone with louis, and came back to a dead baby, do you think grace would not hold louis responsible for her baby's death? do you think grace would tell jonah where to find louis, and not "louis killed my child you should avoid him?"

do you think they would even entertain letting louis come to the house anymore to visit grace's other children, day or night?

do you think grace would invite him to their mother's funeral (or any other events that louis missed - like his not-dead nephew's christening, which takes place AFTER ep 2)?

do you think grace would mark his grave like this???

that whole "did you eat the baby" scene is why episode 2 is my least favorite episode of season 1. it goes on for so long, and then people with no brain cells think they're smart by saying "louis's such a crazy liar he would eat a baby" (ok i've stopped being nice - if you think louis ate that baby you have no right to say anything about this show)

also, we don't see the son at the twins' birthday party because he's still a baby/toddler and probably asleep. he didn't eat his fucking nephew omg be serious.

[tokidokifish]

bc i'm curious:

please note the RANDOM fics qualifier: i'm not talking about fics from authors you're familiar with, this is just "you're in the tag for a pairing and come across a fic" type situations.

[m00ngbin]

So I know we all know that Toichiro doesn't actually care about Serizawa or any of the Super Five, and he makes that clear several times throughout the World Domination arc, but I wanted to look at the specific wording I noticed here:

Oh ok.

For most people, (me included), the first time they watch this scene, they expect Toichiro to say something like, "I think very highly of You." That's the normal thing to say, that's what you would assume he's going to say.

But he doesn't. He specifically chooses to say "your Potential" instead. He's making it very clear that he doesn't actually view Serizawa as a person on the same level as him. He doesn't value his humanity or his presence, he values his Power. Toichiro is Only interested in what Serizawa's powers can do for him and how to make them stronger, and it's obvious to everyone.

Everyone except Serizawa. Serizawa, who was so deep in denial that he had convinced himself that he was working for a company instead of a terrorist cult organization. Serizawa, who devoted every minute of his time to Toichiro from the moment he left his room, until the very end of the organization. Serizawa who truly and wholeheartedly believed that Toichiro did give a damn about him as a person and not just his powers.

Serizawa who, even though he heard Toichiro say that he could lose all of the Super 5 and not feel a thing, still believed that Toichiro would.

Before the panel below happens, Serizawa begs Toichiro to stop what he's doing and tries to insist that he's not betraying him. Obviously that doesn't matter to Toichiro, because Serizawa has expended his usefulness and is actively going against him.

That's part of the reason I think that Studio Bones should have added this scene into the anime, I think it would have made Toichiro outright telling Serizawa that he didn't really care about him more impactful. Not just for Serizawa's character, but for his intentions for all of the Super 5. It helps show just how little he cares for other people and how he only sees them as tools, a means to an end. (Even if that was already clear before, it just drives the point home).

Also also also I think that would have made the one line from, (I think), Hatori stand out more. After Toichiro attempts to blow Serizawa, Shigeo and Reigen up, Hatori says something to the effect of, "so the president finally cast Serizawa aside, huh?" Everyone knew it was coming, everyone knew what Toichiro was after, except for Serizawa.

Tldr: Toichiro wanted Serizawa to become stronger not just because he would be more useful to him, but because there would be more power for him to take if need be, and the spare batteries panel should've been added to the anime because it would've made everything more impactful imo