#clooney is there too

[galacticsuperstitions]

the minds of a lab at three different points (LONG rambling under the cut)

I am constantly in awe of the analyses people put out about Arknights on this website. I feel like my own interpretations are somewhat lacking as a result, but I was confident enough to post this, at least. I've had this idea for a long time now, I think since Lone Trail released, but I've only been able to make the time for it now.

Rhine Lab has so many fucked up elements and people involved in it that it's actually impressive. They were really gunning for "most unethical scientific consortium" reward. Really, though, it's just the result of Kristen gunning for her parents' wishes. All of the directors want something and all of those somethings are different.

Things I want to mention or just feel proud of (allowing myself this because of how long this took):

-I was originally planning on crossing out Saria's surname to reflect that we still don't know what it is in canon, but I don't know why whoever has this poster would do that, so I just kept it in. Hermon refers to Mount Hermon, which Saria's name apparently derives from. Technically, her name here is the same thing twice. Oh well.

-I don't know who this poster belongs to. It's just in some Rhine Lab tech's personal desk, I guess? Doesn't explain the doodles, though. Maybe they were bored and feeling spiteful about the potential job insecurity of your boss being comatose in space.

-I realized only while making this post that I made Saria's, Muelsyse's, and Jara's doodles reference Kristen, yet Kristen's only references herself and her parents. Completely unintentional, but appropriate nonetheless.

-I am so happy with how the poster came out. It makes up for how hard I had to fight Canva for it to come out like that. Here it is in full if you want to look at it closely for whatever reason. (writing an actual description for this thing was fun!)

-Andenate doesn't actually have a face under the sticky note. That's why he's still Mike Wazowski'd in the poster png. I didn't feel like drawing one since it wouldn't be shown in the finished pieces anyway. His jacket is just the same as Magallan's.

-Ifrit's picture board was a literal last-minute addition. It's why the images are sketches rather than being in the lineless style of the poster. It feels fitting, though, so I'm keeping it that way. Seeing Ifrit all grown up and doing so well in Lone Trail was wonderful. There's something in her being happy and healthy and also surrounded by not just her loved ones and friends from Rhine Lab, but also people outside of it. She's cultivated her life to be as fulfilling as she wants it to be, and while there is still room to grow, she has plenty of support and insight from others for it to do so. I may be misrepresenting her a bit (the sleepiness doesn't help), but man. I love Ifrit. She's so cool.

[old-skyguy]

Look.

Ace Attorney fandom.

I know why people don't like Turnabout Bigtop. I am among the people who dislike Turnabout Bigtop.

But I GET why people like the case. I'm not going to be one of those annoying people who just blindly dump on it because I hate those mfs too.

Thing about Bigtop isn't that it sucks. Thing isn't the weird grooming stuff (though that is a huge part of it). It's not that it could've been good.

It's that - in my personal OPINION - it could have been *great*.

I think it had the potential to be one of the best third cases in the trilogy. It had everything; a fun and goofy setting fit for a pretty dang goofy lawyer game - where the environment itself had jokes and quips and one-liners and mishaps and tomfoolery written all over it, it had the previous case introducing a very interesting and important plotline that gave background for one of the more well-loved characters while also introducing an equally fucked up and lovable new one who was a child forced into a shit childhood of naivete in a CIRCUS with another character who was very naive and childish - whose interactions could have been funny and cute and reflective of said shit from the previous case (seriously she becomes such an important character in the 4th case, WHY would they not include her in this one for some character development? How did they fuck up letting a CHILD explore a CIRCUS?? That would have made the interactions flow MUCH better).

They had a pretty good, sympathetic killer imo, a morally dubious victim, an asshole of a client (who was pretty flat admittedly in-game, but I like his weird, topsy-turvy reasoning for it in the anime. Also, I think Max being kinda a dick would have bode well for the themes of Farewell since most of his clients up to this point have been like...nice? Not nice, but sympathetic, but him having to defend someone who's innocent but a prick would have shown him that just because someone is an asshole, doesn't mean they deserve to suffer for it and that they have the potential to grow as people, which is almost a complete foil to what Matt was. Ultimately, I would have loved the contrast of them as clients and I think it would have also served as character development for Phoenix, especially with his low-empathy tendencies).

They just didn't think that far ahead. They just didn't execute it well enough. They just decided to make three of the adult characters fight for the hand in marriage of a teenage girl. (Bat's part of the story was actually kinda good if he was just YOUNGER, I think him doing that for Regina would have been a stupid thing someone in the circus would do to impress their crush. Damn you Ace Attorney and your weird treatment of underage girls!!)

It just flopped and that's ok.

Even though it kinda sucked, it can still mean something to me.

Also I'm a Moe Curls apologist. I liked him, shut up.

[thelovingfeeling]

ER - "Motherhood" Dir.: Quentin Tarantino

[noonieboonie]

"I promise you, if I had all this to do over again, I'd have never let you down. It was always more fun when we did it together, anyway."

Fantastic Mr. Fox

1970 | Roald Dahl, 2009 | dir. Wes Anderson

[jazzdailyblog]

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[breserker]

summer means windows open means i want to watch murder she wrote again (it's such a summer show for me) and it means my neighbors have to deal with me screaming old dead actor names every 40 minutes. "RENE AUBERJONOIS!!!" "JOHN SAXON!!!!!" i should get a fucking job (i have a job)

[cctinsleybaxter]

ryan having defunctland on his theme park podcast is so fucking embarrassing it would be like me telling robert gottlieb fun facts about catch-22

[spoonietimelordy]

talking about money, in France we have this class in between the middle class and rich people which I don't feel like exist in English despite most mildly famous people being part of it. We call those people "aisé", it's not the high end of being middle class, it's above that, but it's not rich rich yet. Rich people will always be fine, they will always have the money to live comfortably even if they loose a lot of money to a bad investment. That's what separate them from "aisé" people, "aisé" people do not live pay check to pay check, they can own multiple house and go on vacations multiple times a year without a thought, but they also can loose it all. I'm putting in this category people like doctors and owners of successful companies who don't come from generational wealth, as well as a lot of nationally famous actors, those kind of people.

To me, a really poor person, those people fell rich, because they are in comparison to me. But I feel like the distinction is important because those people are not the people who hoard money, those people are the ones who actually can loose everything in a blink. And putting those people into the same socio-economic category as rich people (without even talking about ultra-rich people), reinforce the idea that rich people have worked to deserve their money and that they're not that rich actually. And it's because we lump together 2 different social class. And yes it's easy to confuse those 2 because they often interact and are in the same circle, but economically they're not the same.

[dicapiito]

Can white celebs, shut the fuck up about replacing Biden? It’s clear they don’t want to pay their fair share of taxes but to think that the average American should be subjected to their first world bullshit is peak white privilege and peak Main Character Syndrome.

All celebs trying to dictate what Biden ‘ needs to do’ really need to lose support from their fans. Project 2025 isn’t a joke and all they can contribute is a clear complaint that they don’t want to pay their taxes.

Anyway, vote Biden in November because these celebs are already relocated and own homes in other countries and they won’t do anything for anyone should Project 2025 happen.

[etcnnante]

actually i have to talk about how vital yossarians sexuality is in catch 22 and how, despite how the hulu show is the best adaptation of the novel, still manages to almost completely ignore it in favor of the infidelity between yossarian and scheisskopf’s wife. which, is still a vital plot point, but to favor that almost completely over the relationship him and the chaplain share has me insaneeeee especially because of how prevalent homosexuality was among all branches of the U.S. military due to how young and inexperienced many of the drafted men (and women) were. like he CONSTANTLY calls orr a very handsome and attractive man, the most beautiful out of the entire battalion. it’s wild to me that it is never explored bc of geo.rge clo.oney’s homophobic ass

[neonsbian]

im gonna watch the other oceans movies so i can say w good authority that oceans 8 is the best one 🫡

[kindalikerackham]

what the HELL IS THIS

I FEEL LIKE I WAS TRANSPORTED TO 1999

[wyldblunt]

probably gonna bring lorelei to the rp thing tonight... :3c or maybe someone else i gotta sit in front of the character select screen and think. but just probably not glyn lmao 💀 i love bringing him everywhere but he's hard to rp with.... it's ooc for him to spontaneously involve himself w other ppl's conversations/etc so it's hard to find ways to jump into the action w him PLUS even if i do, he's so fucking MEAN that it's nervewracking to write his interactions esp w ppl i don't know :') it's fun to write him being a dick to my ocs/characters i already know well/with my wife in rps etc but having him coming out swinging being a bitch to other ppl's ocs is tooootally different and it makes me too nervous

[oyeartillero]

ESTE DESGRACIAO

[garymerlow]

sometimes reading through rolling stone mag daily roundup emails is a hypothetical 'take a shot everytime you read a misleading headline and hope you don't die of alcohol poisoning' challenge

[thanos-the-dad-titan]

Oh, hear me out.

A "Far from Home" style movie...

But with the Batmen.

Ben Affleck, Michael Keaton, and George Clooney as Bruce Wayne The Flash (2023) dir. Andy Muschietti