#but stuff where it would literally make no sense to get to now

[nquesoxlies]

When is the joint ET interview scheduled to come out? I think when it’ll air would impact how people are feeling. Like if it’s directly after the finale that might make me a little more anxious, versus after the next ep which would seem kinda routine because they have post-ep stuff all the time

The only thing that makes me nervous about the two interviews is how random they seem when looking at them sorta from the outside.

Like why do we not have Kenny getting an interview after he killed it (the acting, not Bobby) for three episodes straight!!? Why isn’t he on ET? (Rhetorical question). Having OS and RG on there now just makes me a teensy bit nervous because the timing seems suspicious. If the show was doing PR clean-up for Bobby, I don’t know if they’d lean heavily into the buddie angle because the GA (Entertainment Tonight watchers not Buzzfeed who are younger and more socially online) wouldn’t expect them to. The thirst tweet interview doesn’t faze me, because it seems like ABC realizes they have a good pair they can use for marketing and this type of stuff used to be way more common a decade ago. It’s just the fact that there’s two things now, you know? Right at a time when I wouldn’t be shocked at all if Tim decided he wants to keep making shocking choices.

I’m still a believer in BuckTommy resolution because it would make no sense to include Tommy again when he had so many opportunities for the show to say “that’s it.” And it just makes the most sense for the story to have them back together. But idk I think I got some of the anxiety vibes floating around. I think after Thursday we’ll have a much better idea where the season is going to end which will hopefully help disperse fears (I hope!!!!!)

Sorry this turned into something else entirely. I really was just going to ask the first part. Hope your VO stuff is coming along well!!

Please keep in mind that this ET segment 'Spilling the ETea', as far as I'm aware, doesn't air on television. It's an online segment. So, it IS very much for the chronically online.

I don't know when it'll come out but online segments obviously don't need as much time as segments that air on television. I'd assume we're getting one this week.

The thing is, the clean-up is for the fandom. They're the only ones actually making noise and pestering the cast and crew. So, yes, they 100% will fall back on buddie to get them to shut up. It's literally what PR does. I'm sure ABC had this shit planned as soon as the gave the okay to kill off Bobby. The 911twt fandom has a reputation and by now, it's child's play at what will appease them.

[noddytheornithopod]

These latest episodes of Andor made me angry.

Not because they're bad, far from it, they were great.

But because I know so many will watch this, and then ignore the exact same thing happening right now in Palestine.

The stuff on Ghorman was written before the current genocide in Gaza, but the parallels I could see watching this were frightening to me.

The way everyone was slaughtered like animals.

The way the media manufactures consent for the genocide, to the point where they focus on how those horrible terrorists murdered poor Imperials.

The way before then they were blockaded and starved.

The way imperial powers will stop at nothing, willing to burn the entire place to the ground to get what they want.

The way they're willing to transfer an ENTIRE POPULATION away for their agenda.

People I bet like to think they're Mon Mothma, courageously speaking up against oppression and making a stand. But in reality, they're like Eedy Karn or one of those bootlicking senators crying over dead Imperials.

Knowing that so many people will watch this, see what's happening, and not realising it's happening RIGHT NOW before their own eyes sickens me. Israel literally announced it intends to fully ethnically cleanse Gaza, right as they're starving the population.

And all of us in Western countries are sitting back, having it all beamed to us on our screens and our newspapers, as our leaders look the other way at best, and condone this genocide at worst.

People would rather tune out, or look at it as some far away war that doesn't affect them, or outright support the occupiers because they're supposedly more "civilised".

Palestine just comes to mind because I have never seen somewhere in Western society where the truth just doesn't even matter to most people. It's like the powers that be are forcing us into a false reality for their narrative to make sense.

A key part of Mon Mothma's speech denouncing Palpatine talked about how important the truth is. It is often said that truth is the first casualty in war. The same applies to manufactured consent for a genocide. Ghorman wasn't a war, it was a slaughter. Just like Palestine.

We can all do so much better than we are now. Even as governments are cracking down on protestors supporting Palestine, even as Greta Thunberg was almost shot by fucking drones for trying to go to assist Gaza on the Freedom Flotilla.

I wish I had the answers, but I don't. I'm just a tired nerd on the internet yelling hoping someone cares, wishing he could do more.

Listen to and boost Palestinian voices.

Keep protesting.

Keep giving politicians, media and other public figures complicit absolute hell.

No, seriously. Palestinian people are the people you should be going to and listening to. I can voice my support for them, but they are ones that need to be heard. They are ones we should be heeding. They are the ones we need to support.

So, if any Star Wars fans are with me, all I say is this: what you are watching on your screen is happening right now in real life.

If you have any shred of dignity, please speak out and make noise about this.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

[galaxymagitech]

Found my not-live liveblog for WFA 138-155 in my Tumblr drafts:

They’re mimicking Gotham War with more than just the fight—there’s that “you stepped up to lead the family” moment too. I may post them side by side later because it’s really cool. Especially because there’s another similar moment coming up that I saw a screenshot of.

Two episodes with hugs in a row!

Steph and Jason are an excellent chaos duo.

I’m not in favor of Jason calling Barbara “mom” even ironically, but I’ll deal because it was funny.

I love that they had Harper take out the generator. STEM girls ftw.

They could never make me hate you Timmy.

Lol Freeze called Catwoman a sellout. He’s…not exactly wrong.

Deal with the Devil, there, Tim.

Wow they literally had Calculator fall multiple stories. They’re lucky he survived.

Bruce asking Tim and Selina for their opinion because they were the ones to talk with Freeze and he trusts their judgement…10/10. This is a good leader.

Does Dick only own one jacket? Also, is he incapable of closing it? Or wearing a shirt? Caves are cold, dude!

Tiny hiding Damian. I feel you, Duke—his hair is so ruffleable.

“I think Alfred would murder me if I let you stay out any later.” Said to Tim and Damian. So I guess they have an Alfred-enforced bedtime.

Yes! Duke! Thinking about the rest of Gotham and helping them feel safer! Community!

“They’re good kids,” Selina says. (About Nightwing and the other Batkids.)

Tim: *yawns* Me: awwww

Dick Grayson: Strategist. And I’m here for it.

“I had some caffeine. That’s basically the same thing as sleeping.” Oh, Tim.

Bruce really isn’t allowed to catch a break, I guess.

“If you start to get overwhelmed, get out. That’s an order.” Good Dad Bruce! Good Dad Bruce! Good Dad Bruce!

Killer Moth looks ridiculous, which I suppose is comics accurate.

They’re spread waaay too thin. This feels like Knightfall.

Good job, Dick. Talk some sense into your father!

Oh. Wait. Gave him too much credit. He wants to go out in the field injured. Of course he does.

Yay Duke arguing for his plan and standing his ground!

Duke…Luke…what’s their situation? Duke calls Luke a mentor but idk where they met.

Batman prioritizing civilians! Yay!

If. You. Think. You. See. Something. Freaking. Say. Something. Like seriously, it’s never “just the smoke,” Cass.

Tim’s “supervillain pose” is sending me. (Bruce admits he’d be a terrifying supervillain.)

Bruce accepting Tim’s help!

Duke is worried about interrupting :(

“We’d learned early on that a better future isn’t handed to you. You have to fight for it.”

— Duke Thomas

Alfred is guilty about Troy’s death

Okay I think making the We Are Robins search and rescue is an acceptable compromise between the Bats’ very real limitations and the fact that these are teenagers with very little training

Bruce can learn from his mistakes!

Aw! Affectionate Timmy hair ruffle from Bruce!

Duke and Izzy seem to be flirting, so it seems like the narrative has backed away from his random girlfriend

Oh…looks like We Are Robin is getting trained by a ten-year-old now. Okay then.

“The beds are upstairs. I am downstairs. It’s an irreconcilable difference.” Amazing Jason line.

Jason is rubber ducking for Tim!

Tim don’t you have a job? Why are you on this case 24/7?

Tim gave Jason a photo of him as Robin! This feels like a fanfic moment but it’s really sweet so who cares?

Apparently whether or not Damian pulls out knives when asking for space is an indicator of if it’s really serious or not

Dami is capable of asking for help!

I love crazy baby Dickie.

Dami’s still worried about being replaced. :(

“And what if people don’t like Damian Wayne?”

“I could see all this bad stuff happening around me and there was this fire under my skin to fix it, but no one else seemed to care at all.” Yeah, this feels like Zero Year Duke.

Damian is proud to call Duke his brother. YesyesyesyesYES!

Increment hugCounter by one!

“You can count on me.” / “I know.” — a cat and a bat

Bruce is still keeping Dick away from the action, so he’s probably still pretty injured from fighting the Joker. Reasonable recovery times!

Nightwing is able to watch Batman’s back from the comms.

Classic damsel in distress pose.

Bone-chilling jumpcut of all time.

WFA Joker sounds like Fanon Pit Mad Jason and I feel like there’s some sort of meta that can be made about this.

Joker just licked his own blood off his gloves.

Bruce just said Damian’s name out loud in front of two henchmen 💀 Bet this will remain unaddressed

Yeah. I. Kind of figured.

Bruce called Dick into the fight. That must’ve been really hard for him. But he needs to get to Damian, so…understandable.

No hug here but a hand-squeeze!

Yay! Huzzah for Jon Kent!

Jean-Paul’s still kicking? Oh, I forgot about that. Good for him.

Nice costume, Helena.

Group hug!

And another hug!!!!

Bruce actually said “Thank god” that is really rare for him. He is. Genuinely. So relieved. He was so scared.

Damian accidentally started a pillow fight by throwing a pillow at Dick to prevent a hug and Dick dodging it. And Cass was behind Dick. That was an “oh shit” moment.

Bruce just admitted he’s not okay!

Wow that’s an Eliza moment for Selina

“Investigating potential murder is how I relax.” Kate Kane, everyone.

Steph & Cass hug and I can’t even be happy about it because this is so sad.

Cass. What are you seeing, Cass. Share with the class, Cass.

Human chain

“But if something were to go wrong…I don’t want that on your shoulders.” YES!

And now Dick is just leaning on his brother. Dunno why but I find this hilarious.

Cass don’t go off alone!

Ohhh we really are echoing the comics

“Death is the only language you speak” is such a powerful statement coming from Cass

Comics quote reference!

Duke was onto something…if only Tim and him had pooled brains earlier… (I did kind of suspect Checkov’s epicenter was important)

Knightsfall

And there it is. Wonder how many other heart of the family references I can find?

The hug!!!! So much love in this one!!! And Bruce emphasizing Tim’s compassion and selflessness over his mind/intellectual contributions is great.

“I CHOSE YOU RIGHT BACK”

[moghedien]

With every season it becomes increasingly clear to me how many book fans would really benefit from looking at a timeline of what events happen when because people just don’t know how spread out some of these things are

[shepscapades]

Why does Ren have 4 ears? Are they all real or is one set fake?

Hehe I’ve gotten this question a lot actually! They’re all real— I like to think hybridization isn’t always a clean balance of traits, so Ren just unfortunately ended up with two sets of ears— his Dog ears being much more receptive to sound, naturally— and sometimes when the extra intake of sound is too overwhelming, I imagine he wears earplugs in his human ears to help adjust :> it’s a bit weird, but idk! i like to make designs funky and nonconventional! I liked the idea that Ren had hearing struggles due to wonky hybridization and just kept the concept :>

[kiwi-luminaryofthestars]

Lolll uh no progress update today (daily streak is broken 💀) ‘cause I had much going on and then got distracted by some awesome people who I was grateful to have my time taken up by 🫡 We will get back to it tomorrow yahoo!

[enterstellars]

guys i cannot wait to move

[icewindandboringhorror]

examining a seemingly normal image only to slowly realize the clear signs of AI generated art.... i know what you are... you cannot hide your true nature from me... go back where you came from... out of my sight with haste, wretched and vile husk

[sonknuxadow]

i swear to god sega must be choosing which 3d sonic games they wanna rerelease at random because none of their choices here make any sense when i said they should focus more on making the 3d games more accessible instead of re releasing the classic games a million times this isnt what i meant

[rawliverandgoronspice]

I think I have the full outline for Thralls. ;;

[lyknest]

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[nadekosnake]

Sodachi & Nadeko as a pairing — Yay or nay?

Sorry this is late! 🥲 I can’t say I ever thought about it, so I wanted to consider my answer a little more. I’m not much of a shipper in the first place admittedly 🤧

My answer is “this is not a ship for me." The difference in age/where they are in life is a little too much (now in the anime, with Sodachi being in university while Nadeko being in middle school). I also view their relationship to be more like siblings, since Nadeko knows Sodachi as the friend of her best friend’s older brother.

If we’re talking later in life when difference in age/where they are in life is not as large of a factor to affect the power dynamic of their relationship (consenting adults, etc), I do think that Sodachi would still be an older-sibling-figure from Nadeko’s past… I prefer if Nadeko wouldn’t deal with that kind of situation again (speaking about her “crush” on Koyomi). I think an element of Nadeko’s arc is about the deconstruction of the stereotypical anime “imouto” charatype that she was introduced as. So to me, it would be nice for Nadeko to have a partner that doesn’t have that kind of faux older-sibling relation to her, past or present.

Apologies for the long answer! It’s a little jumbled but I hope that this suffices! 🙏😓

[krysmcscience]

At long last: either an alternate explanation for or continuation of my prior comic regarding how Bill was ABSOLUTELY naked in Ford's karaoke night drawing. (Because errors in art do not exist. Artists do not make mistakes. So if you see any in this comic, No You Do Not.)

I am so normal about these old dorks.

I'm not really clear on exactly when Bill started throwing his desperation book at Ford just like a needy ex do, but I find it extremely funny to imagine it happening literally the day of or after the makeshift funeral. Bill just gets this weird sense of 'Ford is taking steps to move on' and CANNOT FUCKING ABIDE.

I hope you enjoy all the goofy things I added to each page of Bill's sad spieling. (Everything SHOULD be readable so long as you view the full size, but I have added basically this whole little fanfic in the image descriptions, LMAO, which lays out all the little written notes and such.) Also don't ask how Bill managed to sneak that vampire pen in there. I have no idea, and honestly? I don't wanna know.

Oh, and a little bonus comic:

Of course Bill would take it as flirting. Because between the two of them, Bill is the bigger masochist By Far. :)

Also I have continued applying The Good Place logic to any of Bill's attempts to swear. Case in point, one last bonus image, this time with a motivational line from my slapdash Theraprism OC, EV-01:

Yes, its name is just 'love' backwards. No, I will not be taking any feedback on this. Yes, EV-01 was only ever assigned to Bill's case due to the Theraprism being desperate to make some progress in rehabilitating him. No, it did not work anywhere close to staff's expectations - Bill didn't even appreciate EV-01's matching fondness for bowties! (He claimed the fondness to be "cultural appropriation" and insisted he'd been traumatized by it.)

Anyway, if you like my stuff, reblogs are very much appreciated, and if you really really like it, perhaps consider my commissions or yeeting a teeny tiny tip my way? I am trying to recoup over 500 dollars in vet bills, ahaha... 🙃

In other news, I loved all the fun tags people added to the prior naked-karaoke comic (such as 'the hat and bow-tie stay ON during sex' and the classic '[insert keysmash here]', as well as the many amused/bewildered remarks about how I either made the bricks a piece of clothing or just straight up peeled Bill's skin off). However, I think my favorite thing by far was the several people losing their shit over the fact that I gave Bill toes. Like, excuse me? The magical talking triangle can have fingers but not toes??? Since when was that a rule????? 🤣 (Also the one person who reblogged with the cropped panel where Bill's fishnets pants are falling off to ask why Bill peed himself. Dude, I want to examine your brain...?)

Okie-dokie, I'm sick of looking at all of this stuff now and I'm off to go to work, after which I will either scribble some more goofy "Billford" comics or perhaps draw my lame human!Bill in Situations, idk yet. Maybe I'll even finally draw more than just a single other person's human!Bill...? Who knows, but I sure hope I can mix it up a little and not turn whatever I draw into a month-long fukken project. >:\

[hauntingblue]

Justice for jolyne wdym emporio defeated pucci

[quarterlifekitty]

Weaknesses part 5: complexes

Note: this is jokes!! Please don’t take my cartoon pathologizing too seriously!

cw: some daddy kink level stuff

Gaz has a soft spot for girls who suffer from oldest sister syndrome. Girls that are a little world weary and too grown up at too young an age from caring for others while not having people to rely on. He just loves how pleasantly surprised you are literally every time he does something helpful that you didn’t ask him to do. Doing the dishes. Spackling that hole from the picture you took down. Refilling the air in the tires. Bleaching the bathtub. Very small things— but you’re so used to being the only one who can stay on top of things. Literally the high he gets from telling you to sit down and relax is unparalleled.

Soap is, quite frankly, into girls who grew up thinking they were ugly. It’s a terribly selfish, but he likes telling you all of the dirty things he thinks of doing to you, how he feels like someone’s knocked him upside the head when you enter a room in a new outfit, how he has to take a cold shower every time you’re going out to some event and he gets to see you dressed up. Honestly, he has to take the cold showers pretty regularly. Seeing how you’re flustered, and you don’t 100% believe the things he says— so he has to put in the time to make you believe him. You’re the kind of girl boys would dare each other to ask out in middle school, and now Soap has the absolute pleasure of convincing you that sometimes you make him so turned on that he thinks he’s about to throw up.

Ghost likes outcast girls. He likes how you eye him with a little bit of suspicion when he chooses to hang around you. He sort of gets this idea in his head that he’s the only one that can handle your eccentricities— handle you. That other people are afraid to approach you but he’s not afraid of anything. That his interest in you is because honestly, he has a much more refined palate than any of the shitheads you’re surrounded by. And you know what? He likes the idea of you as a couple being the scary, freak ass couple. Two lone wolves becoming mates.

Price likes former gifted students. He loves that you’re talented and quick, yes, but he also can’t help but get excited by all of that pressure that’s on you— that you put on yourself. He gets to be the one that relieves it. He’s the one that gets to lavish you in praise, and he’s also the one who gets to pin you down and force you to take it easy for a little while. He loves gently handling any mistakes or missteps, rationally perceived or otherwise. Because he can tell no one’s ever bothered to treat you so gently, have they, sweetheart? They’ve just been content to push you to your limits and have you run yourself ragged because you’re special. You are, he won’t deny it— but you’re also a little thing that hasn’t seen enough nurturing, in his eyes.

König loves so called “high maintenance” girls. Girls with high standards who know what they want, who have gone through some partners that couldn’t take the heat. He gets a very unique sense of control out of it— knowing all of your rules, rituals, likes, dislikes. Like Ghost, he likes thinking of himself as the only person who knows how to handle you— that everyone before him has just been unworthy of you. That he is strong where others have been weak. And you know what? It’s not rotten work. Not to him. Not if it’s you. He’s just built different.

Nikolai… I’m just going to say it. He likes girls with daddy issues. He kinda throws his whole self into relationships at times, and he likes it when he can be your everything. Your love, your friend, your hero, your source of approval from an older man. And he loves a brat. Because he knows you only act that way because someone didn’t pay attention to his special girl in the past. You’re testing him— daring him, unsheathing your claws to see if he’ll flinch and he never will. He’ll endure it all and chip at your defenses until you’re the soft, satisfied, sweet girl he knows you really want to be. Lavishing you with praise and attention, bragging about you to anyone who will listen. He wants you to have a complete breakdown because you’ve been holding it all in and putting up walls for so long that you don’t even know how to cope with being in the arms of someone who will always catch you when you fall.

[inkskinned]

no, actually, where is the whimsy?

my ex had a best friend named larry who asked me once: what do you think comes after irony?

we were at the bar where larry worked. it was a quiet night, and he'd hopped over to sit with us on the patron side. i swirled the lemon around my limoncello martini.

earnest positivity, i said, while my ex said, art self-destructs.

i stared at my ex. he stared at me.

his argument was the cinemasins argument: look how bad media is becoming! look at the loopholes and the dumb shit!

it was roughly 2011. galaxy print was still in. at the time, i had a favorite shirt that was a wolf howling at the moon. it got ripped in half in the wash and i honestly still mourn it. i dressed like effie stonem, because everyone did. and irony was the name of the thing. men liked MLP "ironically." the internet liked the kind of crass, "anti-mainstream" vibes of things like fuck romance, touch my butt and buy me pizza. we put cats in sunglasses everywhere, which was because we only liked things in irony.

and media had the same vibe in it: anti-hero white men would be "hard to love" and then storm off the scene. nobody was just earnestly trying to save the world: they were jaded, angry, unoriginal. mad you even asked them to try to help.

my ex ends up not being wrong. cinemasins becomes super popular. a lot of people start viewing media with this lens that is the cruelest, most jaded depiction. it's wrong for your character to have unexplained powers, even if the entire movie is about how strange it is she has unexplained powers - that is still considered a "loophole." characters make thoughtless, panicked choices? loophole. characters are actually kind people, despite hardship? loophole. features a woman doing literally anything without assistance? loophole. movies become hyper-aware of scrutiny, and now irony rules the media.

which means you go to a movie, and the character has to turn to the screen and say "beats me!!" or one of the side characters has to have some kind of quip like "are you seriously telling me that you think this is normal?" because nothing can happen in earnest. like a sitcom laugh track, we now anticipate the fourth-wall break: the moment that the media acknowledges it is telling a story. the media has to apologize for itself, or else someone like my ex rolls their eyes.

but here's the thing: i wasn't wrong either.

the difference might be that i am (and always have been) so soft-hearted that any crack in the light of this world will spear me into the ground. and i was the poet in the relationship. (he thought that was the same thing as being naïve and stupid). i was making things daily. i knew how all of us artists are driven by some strange desire to evolve. he notably liked to critique art, not to create it.

so yes, i've made things that are bitter and angry and even ironic. i've made long, sharp poems with all capital letters, and i've made poems about how the silence stretches out like a song. someone wrote once that we will spend our whole lives just circling the place we grew up. i think it's more that we spend our whole lives trying to remake a home. i think it's that as we age, it becomes less exciting to build the castle on the beach - we become aware of erosion, of windforce. we realize what we really want is to come home to our dog, castle or not.

and while art in the foreground is mired in white male violence and irony, and aggression, and not taking anything seriously - i don't think that's true of all art. i think more and more artists are leaning in to the things we love. the world has changed so much. they have taken so many things from us. the only thing we have left is love. at the bottom of the moving box - all we get is the faint sense that we have to appreciate what little we've got. i can't enjoy this stuff ironically anymore: what room do i have for irony? if it makes me happy, that is an amazing thing. there are so few happy places left for me. i want to be happy because of how leaves shiver beside each other like nestling birds. i want to be happy because of the color pink, and how magenta doesn't exist. i have spent so much of this life suffering, i have earned my right to a gentle ending. if nothing matters, i get to assign meaning to the nothing. i get to create meaning. i am an artist first and foremost, which means creation is my thing.

where is the whimsy? wherever i fucking put it. because if this is my last fucking chance to do any good in this world - i want to do it earnestly. i want to write things that make you happy. that make people feel heard and seen. what comes after irony has to be positivity.

it was close to my 21st birthday. in 7 years, i would end up writing a book about this relationship, which is hopefully coming out somewhere around May 2024. i come back to this bar scene in my memories a lot. i keep thinking of how pale my ex was. the look that crossed his face. how i looked back at him. how for a moment, both of us couldn't recognize the other person. like the gulf between us was a suddenly wide and cavernous thing. like we were alien to each other. he never took my opinion seriously, and he always seemed surprised whenever his manic-pixie-dream-girl ever broke free of the plot. like in the whole time we were together, i wasn't human enough.

this knowledge: where he said nothing comes after, my only instinct was what comes after is love.