#but that's not the POINT the POINT is the HEIST

[copperbadge]

God dammit I am kind of fascinated by the Pennsylvania egg robbery (I have theories and ideas, and was in fact in PA when it happened) and now I want to write a short story about a Shivadh Egg Heist.

I'd change it to some other foodstuff but the eggs are the point. They can be preserved but it's not easy and it limits their use after. Almost any other food except maybe some veggies can be processed and frozen -- meat, cheese, bread, even sausages are cured and will keep for ages. And veggies aren't generally worth very much except --

Hang on, googling "can you grow avocados in the Mediterranean"....

Oh, well. Just gonna add The Great Shivadh Avocado Robbery to my to do list. Thanks, rubber duckies!

[feroluce]

OK so like Boothill has done a lot of wild shit. Started rebellions and riots, pulled god knows how many heists on Pier Point, played part in saving the disadvantaged population of Emerald-III, helped save the universe from Ena's Dream and the Embryo of Philosophy, etc etc

But legit the funniest- and perhaps my favorite- thing he's done is possibly accidentally causing the Holstein Aphasia.

The Holstein Aphasia is something that went down during the last Amber Era, where memory bubbles from the Holstein system relating to speech were destroyed, causing all of its residents to forget how to speak, and as a result, go mute (aka aphasia). In the present, the Garden of Recollection are still trying to rebuild these memories; but in the meantime, the population apparently has gotten on just fine by switching to written communications.

This ties in with Boothill's fourth character story, where we see him sneaking into the Garden of Recollection (something very hard to do!) trying to find info on Oswaldo Schneider.

And you can tell how pissed the Garden is about all this, not only because of the bounty, but because the Memokeeper on the Express gives such bad stinkeye that Boothill can literally feel it KFLDJASLKFJD

She can literally control who does and doesn't see her, and he can still tell she's over there, I hope she haunts him like a wraith every time he's in the parlor car FJKLASJFL

Anyway, the funniest part isn't actually the event itself, it's what came after.

The Holstein Aphasia was actually initially brought up in the IPC broadcast that plays in the parlor car, and changes between missions. This broadcast was from all the way back during the Luofu trailblaze missions of 1.2- needless to say, long before Boothill was ever introduced.

But this kills me because like! A Galaxy Ranger that wishes to remain anonymous! You don't say! Can you just imagine Boothill trying to drop anonymous hints to implicate the Cremators, because he figures they suck and deserve the punishment anyway and because he doesn't wanna get in trouble for something he did by accident JFKDLASJKFLDJSA

And the fact that the Galaxy Rangers issued a statement that they're working on a solution! They either don't know it was Boothill or, more likely, they're just covering for him- which is very very sweet!

But I'm crying imagining Boothill getting pulled by the ear while La Mancha, leader of all the Galaxy Rangers, lectures him about how he is going to be working this off until it's repaid, dammit, or his ass is grass!!

[pearlsdefenseattorny]

There's no "calling out" in analysis imho- people just interpret things different and implying some kind of morality is involved (that some interpretations = moral, okay, while others aren't) always feel a little pushy and chronically online to me. However I understand the point being made here and here's my take...

The reason no one is applying the same logic to Rupphire is probably multifaceted and I'm not the end all be all, but the reason *I* don't is because not only is the power imbalance just... somewhat less of a thing according to worldbuilding, it's less emphasized narratively. rubies are apparently made for the gems they protect becuz of how ruby reacts to seeing sapphire ("as my sole duty and purpose, i will protect you with my life!") in the movie, but they are not objectified the way a pearl is and if you havent seen the movie its even less obvious. pearls have default settings and can be customized... they are at the veeeryy bottom of the hierachy and diamonds at the veeeeryy top, making rose and pearls difference in power a little more obvious and intense than ruby and sapphires.

significantly less time is spent on ruby's feelings of inadequacy even though it's briefly examined- we get one or two scenes, im thinking specifically "the answer" and "gem heist," and in both of these examples sapphire is SHOWN onscreen to immediately communicate disapproval and assure ruby she's equal. in someone entirely new:

"well what about you?"

"what about me?"

"well *you're* here too.. we're here, together."

and she places her hand on ruby's. in "gem heist" ruby stammers that shes disposable and sapphire's like "what!?" and in jail break, when ruby says "who cares?" sapphire retorts "i do!". there's more on screen evidence here sapphire and ruby feel equal and sapphire actively solicits belonging, equality, etc. from ruby. sapphire obviously onscreen kinda often tbh communicates love, adoration, respect for ruby etc, just think of their wedding ep! we dont see that from pearlrose. im not saying that it wasnt there but the audience isnt shown it.

we get a LOT of scenes and lyrics about pearl's objectification by homeworld and her feelings of inferiority.

"Everything I ever did, I did for her. Now she's gone, but I'm still here." - pearl

"Because pearls aren't for this! They're for standing around, and looking nice, and holding your stuff for you."- peridot

"But it's true! No matter how hard I try to be strong like you... I'm just a Pearl. I'm useless on my own. I need someone to tell me what to do." - pearl

"Who am I now in this world without her? Petty and dull with the nerve to doubt her." - pearl

"Well, you know Rose.... She always did what she wanted" - pearl

these lines are incomparible to many of ruby's lines and rose isnt there onscreen to dispute her claims of inferiority/helplessness like sapphire is there to dispute ruby. whether she even would or not is probably intentionally left to interpretation, serving to obfuscate rose's supposed good character.

also: sapphire never utilizes her position of power over ruby to force ruby into silence about one of the most traumatizing events of her life. not saying this is smth she even could do, but either way she doesnt do it.

anyway this is why i think the conversation is different. their relationships are presented differently becuz well.. the two relationships *are* different.

You know if people talked about Ruby and Sapphire’s relationship the way they talked about Rose and Pearl’s I’d imagine for at least some it’d highlight how infantilizing it is towards Pearl and how it demonizes Rose for basically no reason.

Like, nobody in the SU fandom would ever think “Ruby only loved Sapphire because she was programmed to be loyal to her.”

If anyone said that they’d be called out and rightfully so. But that’s like a common talking point for a lot of the people who try to undermine Rose and Pearl’s relationship.

Why is ok to say this about them?

[theallianceofcelestials]

What are some of your favorite headcanons or ideas when it comes to the scp fam

I love all the little bits of lore we get from these asks. (Side note have a wonderful day or night whichever is relevant at the time ☀️🌙)

I'll be honest, all headcanons and ideas fled my head the moment I saw this ask, haha

Well the SCP part of the family are packhunters, and while they behave closer to felines, their hunting tactics are closer to that of canines. Felines are primarily ambush predators, while canines exhaust their prey and start eating while its still alive

Eclipse, if he didn't get mental health crisises from it, could learn to be one of the better hunters of the family simply because of his colour scheme, even if he would be closer to a feline hunting. Deer can't really see red or orange, so Eclipse is good in that area

Eclipse hates caramel on its own

Solar Flare would be the person who didn't ask for the pickles, while Lunar would be the one confronting the poor, underpaid people about the pickles

Bloodmoon doesn't like vegetables nor fruits. You can fool them into eating them though, by frying them

Eclipse refuses to get both Minecraft and Roblox because he's afraid of what Lunar would do

Killcode and Moon log onto the gaming console in the night to play Stardew Valley together by the point everyone's sleeping. They have a whole tactic on how to hide their farm and everything.

Sun knows full well his cats bully everyone but him. He just pretends to not notice so he can be offended

All the lunar part of the family is afraid of mannequins same was as Canon Moon is, while all the solar part of the family hates insects like Canon Sun does

Lunar regularly pulls of cookie heists with either one of his siblings, but he's always the only one caught. He's aware why that is, but he just can't resist the temptation to argue for better deals with them where he's not the only one taking the fall

Killcode would love to be a part of a dad group, but he hates humans and doesn't want to be in any sort of club with any of them. Sadly, most dad clubs barely have animatronic members

Moon gets snacks in the middle of the night sometimes from lunch uncle and lunch auntie. He's like a stray cat they're feeding

That's all the things off the top of my head right now, but you can ask more specific scenarios like what my headcanons would be in this or that situation for them or the like

(It's morning here, a bit over 10 AM Good night/morning to you too! :] )

[richardsphere]

i really dislike that the feather didnt pop out of the rings. cause.. lets get first defence out of the way: this is not the Crocoduel thing. If it was the Crocoduel thing then breaking it wouldnt have released the butterfly either. So that isnt what's happening. so that leaves 3 options: 1-Animation error (big fucky-wucky. Theoretically possible but that's a critical failure) 2-Adrien somehow isnt a senti/it isnt in the rings. (outright cheats the audience out of 5 seasons of build-up) 3-They just did a fucking stupid-ass "timetravel heist" like Felix with the dog and Marinette stealing Tiki from her past self in the London Special, and they're gonna reveal that in the season finale where they steal it... And if its 3... goddamn there's 2 sub-classes. 3a:They stole it when the rings went missing in this episode. Now technically there is a moment where Plagg vanishes in the kitchen so he could be an accomplice, but i dont see how you sneak a fake replacement ring into a locked room with 4 completely attentive granparents. So i think that's some bullshit. Like making the ring vanish isnt the problem here (just ask Flairmiddable). Its getting the fake underneath Millies plate... wait that isnt a problem either is it. At no point until she looks for it does the plate move. The timetraveler could Fetch-touch the ring at any point in time before it goes missing, plant the fake while everyone is outside greeting the grannies, and Fetch it while they're figthing... 3b: The show reveals that actually, Adrien has never truly received a Ring-based order. All his Gabriel obedience is entirely abuse-based and not mind-controll based. They stole Emilies ring from before Gabriel pulled it off her corpse, and they stole Gabriel's ring from Felix in a different point in the past. I dont like any of these options (cause its either a plothole, or the show becoming even more over-reliant on timetravel trickery). But looking at the currently available i guess that 3a is the least terrible?

[thisisnotthenerd]

feel free to share your reasoning. i made up a title for arc 8. breaking the gates seemed apt. not your least favorite arc, but when the trajectory changed.

arc summaries under the read more:

arc 1: the party meets in jrusar and come under the patronage of eshteross. bertrand dies. chetney shows. ira shows up. concludes with the shade mother.

arc 2: the party does the museum heist then get set after treshi in bassuras. dusk/yu. calloway hideaway. lattice around ruidus. paragon’s call. the deathwish run. fcg murderbot. first otohan murderfest. concludes with laudna’s resurrection.

arc 3: starts with eshteross’ murder. aeshanadoor and the gorgynei. heading to yios to meet the grim verity. planerider ryn. kadija sumal. first fey realm trip and destruction of the fey key. concludes with the apogee solstice.

arc 4: the party split. team wildemount land near uthodurn, meet deanna and frida, free umudara, wreak vengeance in drixlitch, head to molaesmyr for info. team issylra land near hearthdell, meet deni$e, bor’dor, and prism. fight in the dawnfather temple. bor’dor betrayal. concludes with the party reuniting in jrusar.

arc 5: from jrusar, heading to zephrah to help keyleth. after some shenanigans, heading to bassuras for imahara joe. shattered teeth. jirana. ghost pirates. evontra’vir. finding the shard. snowdinus. shardgate. trust exercises in ligament manor. concludes with the rush for the malleus key.

arc 6: landing on ruidus. finding the village. secret tunnel. ria’doin. kreviris. the volition. split missions and discoveries about ruidus. trying to escape. concludes with otohan murderfest number two and fcg’s sacrifice. crown keepers fracturing. zathuda. meet essek. head to aeor. meet braius. concludes with dominox and ludinus triggering the occultus thalamus.

arc 7: downfall. the gods striking down aeor.

arc 8: aftermath of downfall. delilah fight and soul anchoring. the exandria accord in vasselheim. back to the fey realm to defeat zathuda and cut unseelie ties. arch heart message. back to vasselheim. matron’s temple and the mask. meeting the nein and heading to ruidus.

vox machina take back the malleus key. mighty nein defeat the weave mind. bell’s hells rush to save liliana, defeat ludinus, and defeat predathos. back to exandria for an audience with the gods. gods take mortal form, predathos released into space, ashton dead and resurrected, epilogues for the age of reclamation.

[jerich0two]

Heard he was part of the mob in his prime...

Bonus monochrome newspapery version!

Maybe -- just maybe! -- this is my version of Overlord Angel.

[skyrigel]

Me when I consume media with a stabbing knowledge that I'll never experience anything as mortifying, beautiful and agonizing as this, with my hands tainted my brain rotted my heart overwhelmed and for my soul to be forever grotesquely haunted ( affectionately )

[polarisbear]

more dweebs (Very detailed image description below.)

a drawing of grian, ethoslab, tangotek, and smallishbeans. grian is in his season 10 fishing skin and the rest are in different outfits referencing their base themes.

grian is in his fishing skin looking very tired with his fishing rod swung over his shoulder and an ear pierced with a brassy fish hook. he’s a cod hybrid with fin-ears and a stubby tail. behind him blue snail is munching on some leaves.

etho is posing with a neck sheepishly behind his neck and the other resting on his bag. he’s in the postal uniform polo with a green, canadian maple-themed yukata loosely worn and slipping off his shoulder. he has fingerless gloves on under. he is wearing dark red pleated pants and light green heeled crocs. he has a black and red messenger bag with a trellis motif. etho is an arctic fox hybrid with brown legs and streaks through his hair. doodles below show what his paws look like under the crocs and one shows him posing with a note saying “ties up sleeves.” above him another note reads “streaks bc his winter coat is shedding.”

tango is posing confidently with a wrench. he is in the postal uniform polo, with chunky brown and orange gloves and boots, topped off with red, pinstriped overalls. one strap is not around his shoulder, and on the belt around the overalls they carry a small bag, a screwdriver, and a vial of redstone. he has on brown goggles with blue lenses. tango has fire for hair and pointed ears. above him there’s a doodle of the messenger bag that’s secured on his back. it shows how the orange straps tuck over the whole outfit and lead to a dark red and pinstripe blue bag with cog detailing.

joel is giving an indignant pose like he’s complaining. he is wearing a black undershirt that fades out into his light green claws, a pink kimono with only one sleeve of cherry blossom patterns, and a dark grey vest and cherry blossom-patterned obi tie it off. the vest has a cherry blossom crest on the back. joel also has on dark pink pants with a cherry blossom motif on the bottom and on his left arm there’s a bracer with a screen built in. crawling all over the undershirt there are cybernetic patterns connecting joel’s skin through to the undershirt. joel is a tanuki, hence why he has a leaf on his head. around joel are doodles showing the crest on the back of his vest and the pattern on the sleeve.

[shaykai]

Okay but hear me out, both Durge and Gortash looking at their first heist together as a test.

They have things to steal and messages to send, sure, but more than that, they’re testing each other.

Can the brute think - can the politician fight?

And at some point, they notice that the other is watching them and likely has been the entire time - and that in itself is a point earned

[yeonbam]

girl joke would've slayed in the acting/modelling industry if his father wasn't suffering from STEM superiority complex (which is why he thinks anything that's not becoming a doctor is a failure 💀)

remember when joke just freehanded at the modeling gig and gagged jack so hard

he invented joker to act out spontaneous and silly little roles every week as a treat and never got caught until he let himself be seen like... imagine if this psycho was given the training and environment for honing his skills in that sphere... he would end everyone.

[pinkyjulien]

Cyberpunk 2077 - V Story short presentation by Luke Poller

[snacobie]

Jem doodles from our sesh last night

[stromuprisahat]

Six of Crows- Chapter 27

Kaz is confronted about his straying from the plan.

Kaz obeys.

He doesn't have to explain himself further as a leader, yet a single sentence of insistence from Inej makes him reveal more.

I've been recently reminded of the term morality pet. While I enjoy his soft spot for Inej, I don't think this particular moment is suitable for supporting the rest of the group. They're literally on a roof of Fjerdan most guarded building, barefoot, poorly clothed, and the clock is ticking.

Yeah. their history should be longer than just a year or two.

And Jesper doesn't seem happy about being left out. :(

Can't wait for the enraged crowds yelling Kaz is an awful person for LYING to his people INCLUDING the woman he'll claim to have feelings for just because he's not ready to share his tragic backstory.

Or not. I keep forgetting this is a cool teen criminal, not a survivor of hundreds of years of extermination attempts with revolutionary tendencies. [End of bitter Darkling stan rant]

He's not afraid to admit a mistake, but he won't offer the truth.

[epicfirestormer]

[bedlamsbard]

for love of god I wish I hadn't trained my brain into generating sequel ideas.