#casting break down

[ludinusdaleth]

"I'm trying to work with you here, please!"

-Critical Role Campaign 3, Episode 98, "The Nox Engine"

[crayolascribblz]

my fionna and cake subnautica au,, :3 (work in progress)

before/during the crash!

after crash doodles (they're all separated :3)

[mazojo]

Me too the fuck

[lunar-years]

The enormous keeley jones energy emanating from this photoset omg

[silverskye13]

Trying to analyze the tropes in my own fics to see if I think they're successful as component pieces and getting so confused I give myself psychic damage send help

[blueskittlesart]

how long after they find those submarine guys do we have to wait before we can start making movies about it because i sincerely think that with the right director this could be one of the best psych horror films of all time. the bottle episode to end all bottle episodes with a perfectly selected cast of the five absolute worst people in the world

[taro-tk22]

So that’s like not Lestat right…right he’s not really at the theatre right……..that’s not him he WOULDNT RIGHT…..he wOULDNT DO THAT…righttttt…damn

[shorthaltsjester]

critical role is just. moving improvisational storytelling between a found family of incredible performers that rattles my brain and has reminded me of the good in the world on bad days. also watch laura bailey nearly start crying because she gives herself such intense psychic damage by laughing at an innuendo about beef as matt mercer laughs at her. these are equally essential parts of the show.

[happybunnykat]

Shout out to Gwen who's facade cracked first! I can't wait for everyone elses to follow.

[givehimthemedicine]

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lots of talk about why Mike reacted so negatively to this when he reacted so positively to this:

can we talk about how the Rinkomania reaction started in between those two things? right here:

at mid-season-2, all the times Mike has seen El use force against people have been super justified because there were lives at stake (or at very least, like in the case of tossing Lucas in the junkyard, she thought there were)

then Max wipes out, and goes "ooh it was like a magnet pulled on my board" and instead of taking that the way anyone would - that this annoying girl fell due to lack of skill and is trying to save face with a stupid excuse - INSTANTLY Mike suspects El. El, who's currently dead or lost in another dimension or whatever, must actually be lurking around here with nothing better to do than trip Max.

ok 100% accurate but I'm offended nonetheless

why did he jump to that conclusion?

the last time some inexplicable, physical but nonlethal hijinks befell someone he was talking to, he turned around and saw who was responsible:

so when Max fell, in that same gym btw, of course his brain goes turn around, look at what you seee

this was Mike learning that, oh, El isn't Superman and doesn't reserve her powers only for perfectly morally justified situations, but can in fact lash out about anything that bothers her, like the disturbed child she is.

BUT I don't think he actually processed that at that moment. he wasn't thinking about how Max did absolutely nothing that could be misinterpreted as a threat, and didn't deserve this. at that moment, any thought of justice for Max, or scrutiny of El's motives, was easily and completely drowned out by excitement that El might be there.

so later Mike sees Angela screaming on the ground with El standing over her, and remembers he has already seen El respond to a non-life-threatening situation with a level of force that didn't make sense to him.

plus he has that whole protection thing and I think seeing anyone get hurt is paladin catnip to him (see him rushing to Max's aid two seconds after telling her she's annoying). he has that instinct to support whoever's been knocked down undeservedly - yeah he knows Angela is an asshole, but El's response seems overboard to him, so while he doesn't go as far as rushing to Angela's side, he doesn't rush to El's side either.

he keeps distance between himself and El at the rink and leaves her sitting alone in the most literal demonstration of not wanting to take her side. he seems irritated in the car and downright pissed at the dinner table. I think it's true that he was overwhelmed in the moment and scared not of El but of the situation, but I don't think that's all of it, because then why would he be pissed.

maybe he's seeing patterns and thinking back on how Max didn't deserve that at all, and how neither of these things were very Superman of El and he's a bit disillusioned that she doesn't live up to the flawless superhero moral code he assigns her in his mind.

while the Angela thing seems WAY harsher than the Max thing, can I also say that a lot of that is due to circumstances?

Angela's pouring blood, wailing, an ambulance has to come, there's lots of witnesses. it looks baaaad. Max isn't injured, isn't too bothered, and there are no witnesses or real consequences. shrug. but it easily could've gone down much more like Angela. you can absolutely break a bone or get a concussion from a spill like Max's.

Max isn't hurt, so Mike just leaves the room, and nothing ever comes of it. compare to Mike watching an inevitably-to-be-arrested El sit stewing in the aftermath as dozens of Angela's sympathizers watch her get checked for brain damage by EMTs.

it's little wonder Mike has such a different reaction in the moment, even though El's actions in these two scenes actually isn't totally night and day.

El's force was more deliberately focused on Angela, and I think El did intend to hurt Angela in a way she didn't intend to hurt Max (El yoinked the skateboard rather than bodily targeting Max herself, but her intent was still to make Max fall, and she could have been comparably injured as a result).

like, up til the point of "El gets mad and lashes out" these are similar - the way the aftermath unfolds just happens to take the best and worst possible paths, respectively.

and before you want to point out that the Angela thing was a reaction of anger and the Max was just about puppy love jealousy, no, that was anger. Max is literally the first thing El thinks of when Kali says to think of something that angers her.

tldr; rinkomania is just a nightmare remix of the gym scene to Mike

[comicslina]

Gotham War/Batman 138 SPOILERS

What's funny- in the most horrible way- is that Bruce has now LITERALLY conditioned his son to fear him. Even after all this is over, he's going to have to deal with Satan's Own CPTSD. It is getting continuously seared into his brain THE ENTIRE TIME after the injection and his waking up.

God knows what the writers will actually do, but I think when this is all over Jason is going to get the fuck out of Gotham.

...one of the reasons I love Jason so much is that he's a fighter. I hope DC doesn't let me down in that regard, but...

Edit: Oh it's not out for another week WHOOPSIE

[moretheta]

Longhi taking it upon herself to stop Beyond Netero, trying to take control of her own narrative and break out of the fate assigned to her by her repulsive father.... . oh boys this ship is going down

[crimescrimson]

Red's RE All-Stars: Dream Cast

"I'm not sure if this is a Raccoon City Reunion or a overdue funeral. Either way it's better then dying alone."

[findingcrow]

I really really hope the rangers apprentice movie/show is a show. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll take literally whatever I can get!!! But knowing the way the series is written, how the characters develop, just the kinda vibes, it would make more sense for it to be a series yk? Number one, more content, number two, more opportunities to become even MORE attached to the characters, and each book could be a season. If you think about book 1, it wouldn’t make much sense for it to be a movie on its own, at least in my opinion. Like I said, I’ll literally settle for anything, these are just my thoughts

[fellowfights]

Ok so I have chronic nightmares. I get them almost every night. They're graphic. They're hyper realistic. And they are straight up haunting.

But for some damn reason, last night, I had a dream that Mob from Mp100 and Sidon from BOTW were best friends and solving crimes and saving people together. It was so touching and heart warming. The dream literally ended with a group hug.

(percy Jackson, who was absent the entire dream, also showed up for like it was a 5 second cameo at the end. Which is objectively hilarious)

[mabelsguidetolife]

oh so i kinda confessed that i feel useless to my family but apparently i’m actually the cheerleader/clown/‘heart’ of the family who helps them get through things emotionally……. they didn’t say or even imply this but i think i’ve been slacking on that front