#but that’s just me haha

[yonderghostshistories]

Never would Young Teenage (probably?) Graham here, who played a King in the Annual Shakespeare Play at his school, have realised or imagined…..

…..that he would one day become a Real King (or, rather, he would play a fictional version of the King), The King of The Britons, that being King Arthur!

[im-no-jedi]

thinking about Hunter’s new look (mainly thanks to this post) and wondering why the heck it’s Like That

and I think it has to do with the fact that all Clones possess some level of artistic ability (they paint their own armor, dye their own hair, etc)

all of TBB changed their armor in season 2 to even further individualize themselves from each other. their armor was already unique not just compared to the regs, but to each other. they all changed their red accents to orange, but other than that, they really made their new looks their own. Tech kept his mostly the same, but his was the most unique to begin with. Wrecker and Echo both kept most of their old armor pieces and just changed up the colors so they stand out more

and then there’s Hunter. aside from his helmet, the only pieces he kept from his old set were his chest piece, his left upper arm piece, and all of his left leg pieces (although they’ve been cut down in size). he doesn’t even have the same shoulder pads anymore. why??

I’ve always had the headcanon that Hunter is the most artistic of them all. I fully believe he was the one that painted all the details on everyone’s armor, including Wrecker’s helmet. so when it came to finding a new look for himself, he decided to go crazy and just pick whatever looked unique. he only kept the left pieces of his old armor because the left side is where his tattoo is, the one thing visibly unique about him (besides his hair/bandana)

you know how when a kid finally gets to choose their own outfit instead of their parent choosing for them? that’s basically what TBB have done for themselves. and Hunter just so happens to be an art kid with a “vision” AKA he likes to throw paint on a canvas and see what comes out of it LOL

[whiteshipnightjar]

Zoozve, my beloved

[jellyjamheadobb]

[codecicle]

really huge fan of this image

[jvlianbashir]

"haha these alpha trad men really just have dom/sub kinks!" i know misogyny isn't real to a lot of you guys but did you know that some people just actually do genuinely think women are inferior creatures

[o0kawaii0o]

Family

[meziniart]

Ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves

[humming-fly]

was anyone gonna tell me shadow saved rouge's life in sa2 or was I just supposed to find that out playing the game myself

(this worked out as a rather fitting closer for the Final Day in Year of Shadow haha, hope ya'll have a fun new year! 🎉🎉🎉)

[chloesimaginationthings]

Scott Cawthon’s version of FNAF security breach..

[atompalace-official]

[i-just-want-to-destroy]

how to build compelling characters

[pyunyrage]

[mightaswelljxmp]

hm ok so interestingly, bdubs’s courthouse is built on an odd number of blocks. note the roof of the facade coming to a point, but more importantly, the nine pillars….

you don’t use an odd number of pillars. like ever.

let me get this out of the way first: i get why you’d build with odd numbers in minecraft. i usually do it myself, to not run into problems like double doors or two-wide pointed roofs or frustrating spacing/symmetry between decorative elements. however. to not even out the design of something so unequivocally done in every other example of columns and pillars…. fascinating implications…

every other example guys. every other building with columns like this has an even number of them.

doing so sets the line of symmetry at an invisible point between two pillars, an even number on each side. but an odd total number of pillars makes the central pillar itself the line of symmetry. this does a couple things.

one, it upends the sense of community and equality. which i know sounds crazy, but really, a group of columns are all put there to hold up a structure. there’s no focus on one because they are all are working as supports.

symbolically, at least when first used in ancient greece, pillars represented people. and it makes sense for courthouses, especially, to want to show an even, fair, equal number of people on each side. no focus on any one, no inherent bias right off the bat just looking at it.

with an odd number of pillars, though, one will always be placed front and center.

and THEN. and then you walk in the courtroom itself (also odd-numbered blocks) and you are immediately opposite the judge, bdubs, located exactly centrally. and true, courtrooms are often set up like this anyway. but bdubs ups the ante and reaffirms that no, focus is on him by staging it all as a daytime court show, boom mic just over his head, cameras pointed in, spotlights on him.

literally by design, it was not built for justice. it’s built for show, for entertainment. and just look at the credits to know exactly what sort of message you’re supposed to be getting from this show.

the biblical story he used, with king solomon. it’s about king solomon. isn’t really about the trial itself, or the babies, or the women. it’s about showing (off) how wise and just he is. that’s the point. hm. interesting.

now, getting to the second point that etho also picked up on: it feels like a prison.

it’s not just the color palette. when your eyes naturally draw to the center point, you aren’t seeing an open space. instead of feeling like an arch or gateway or otherwise some kind of opening, the pillar there makes it feel closed off. the overall effect is that of prison bars. not pillars lining the entrance to a place of order or a temple. bars of a cage, a cell.

imagine the lincoln memorial were set up with 11 or 13 pillars. he’d look so much more trapped in there.

having a central pillar blocks the entrance. it’s not welcoming. you have to go around it; it’s immediately inconveniencing you. and when you go to leave, it’s there blocking you again.

this courthouse was not designed and built to be fair, nor accomodating, nor equitable, on any terms. even if unintentional, i wouldn’t call it so much coincidental as i would… subconscious.

after all, y’know. form follows function.

[trickstersaint]

i want to introduce you all to a project that is very close to my heart... or lack of one. anyway. for anyone who has ever wanted to play a poem. i'd like you to meet aromanticism

(link opens itch.io - she'll run on html in your browser! please be nice to her!)

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo learns something about himself 🏳️‍⚧️

Based roughly on this old post.

Bonus:

[Leo is taking the fact that he was born biologically female simultaneously very well and also not so well but overall he’s mostly coping with the fact that it was Draxum that just essentially gave him the turtle equivalent of ‘The Talk’.]