#continuous logic

[deecotan]

anyway here's wavewave

[chiropteracupola]

Patience and curiosity, as you learn about each other.

[stephen maturin, requested by @dxppercxdxver]

[elizabethzoopzoop986]

I hate this fucking manga how am I supposed to have a life and write essays about shit when I sit down start to think and all that comes to mind is some gay little toilet freaks istg it’s a hard knock life

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Who would be the most devastating family member infested by the yeerks in each animorphs family?

Huh. I assume parents would be worse than siblings, and within-home family would be worse than those who live elsewhere.

Tobias: Ax. For the obvious reason that, if an Animorph is a controller, the whole team is screwed.

Ax: Tobias. See above.

Rachel: Naomi, probably. Dan eventually becomes a controller in #49 but he lives out of state so he can only do so much damage. Jordan and Sara are out because IMHO you need a driver's license and the ability to carry a gun to be really dangerous in the U.S.

Cassie: Walter. As Cassie's dad he has direct power over her, and unlike Michelle he works from home. He has reason to wander into the barn at any time of day or night, without warning.

Jake: Hard to say between Jean and Steve. Tom's occasionally Jake's guardian (#21), and does have a driver's license (MM4), but he doesn't have formal power over Jake and isn't expected to know Jake's whereabouts. Jean writes, but it's not clear if she does so from home (e.g. novelist) or not (e.g. journalist). Steve being a pediatrician means he's away from the house a lot more, but MDs have enormous amounts of soft power in our society. I'd say that if Jean does her job on a home computer then she's the worst option, but that if she does it out of an office then Steve would be.

Marco: I don't think it gets worse than Eva. Peter becomes non-functional without Eva, neglecting and parentifying Marco. Eva would get by fine without Peter. Eva gets taken to monitor Peter and also fulfill Visser One's creepy mom fetish, whereas Peter being taken would just result in the yeerks doing a catch-and-kill on his scientific advancements before sending "Peter" home to resume life as usual.

[naofaun]

dry texters are my worst enemy. do you hate me and wish me dead? do you find texting me incredibly boring? how dare you. at least try.

[allysdelta]

Hi! I'm absolutely in love with your art style and CrossOmens comic, and I don't know if you take requests, so this is up to you on whether you draw this or not. Anyways, I was wondering if we could see more RadioOmens husbands?

Have a great day! :]

That sounds like an excellent use of my time, actually!

I really do love these designs and I don't draw them nearly enough

[monsterfuckermilligan]

i’m sure this has been said before but when adam and michael are talking in the bunker about the possibility of michael’s dad being a grade a asshole, there’s something so so so important to me about how adam points out michael’s hypocrisy.

ADAM: Point is…. Parents keep secrets. Does it hurt to ask the question?

MICHAEL: Yes! It would mean I doubt him. The good son; the favorite doubts his father.

ADAM: You still care about that? After he left you in the cage?

this matters because michael was JUST criticizing sam and dean for leaving adam and how he is in unable to trust them. he doubts them because of their actions.

MICHAEL: You’re asking me to trust you. You who doomed me, you who let Lucifer walk free while your own brother sat in Hell.

in turn, adam is pointing out that clearly michael has a line for his family members and it’s been crossed by michael’s own, so why is his dad any different than sam or dean? what makes michael different than adam? why does his dad get to betray and abandon him and still get michael’s trust and loyalty? why is michael expendable?

he’s really tapping into michael’s beliefs that were just established to us as the audience at the diner. (ie: family sometimes hurts you and just because they’re blood relatives or ‘family’ doesn’t mean they have your best interests at heart. sometimes there are things more important than family, sometimes walking away from your family is freedom) and he’s holding michael to the same standard he’s set for the winchesters.

side note: another thing i enjoy about this interaction is that adam is being gentle, although it 100% appears as if they’ve had this conversation before since he literally rolls his eyes, and not to mention that michael is an archangel. he could easily be mean or not even care about his feelings or michael could not even take his opinion into account and do what he wants. but despite everything, adam asks for michael to listen to him, and he does. and in turn adam appeals to him with logic and reasoning, because he’s overall a very rational and strategic being that’s simply been groomed from the get go in his dad’s weird cult. adam appeals to his emotions in a way that’s familiar. they share this experience. adam knows michael is protective of him and that it’s easy for michael to hate sam and dean for the same things his dad has done. but michael’s own lack of self worth that was drilled into him by his dad for aeons is being challenged, and it’s uncomfortable for him, but adam doesn’t back down and he helps get through to him. it’s really a great scene. this post wasn’t meant to be so long but yeah i have lots of thoughts about this short interaction!

[eliduremaybe]

the doctor who movie has my favourite plot in the entire world.

set in the distant future of 1999. kill off the main character immediately. oh no here's the master. he's turned himself into a silver worm. the brief frankenstein doctor who crossover you weren't expecting. there's this made-up thing they're talking about. and several more made-up things. for luck. they go for a walk and talk about shoes. there's another made up thing. puccini. they're lesbians your honour. the master gets a funky little outfit. a major plot point is contrived to facilitate an absolutely sick ambulance-motorbike car chase. world's going to end. the time machine of the time lords holds a mysterious, powerful and deadly device that can only be opened by a human. no explanation is given. eye of harmony eats the master. unclear how he will survive this. this will also not be explained. the doctor finishes their cup of tea.

[tategaminu]

Runaan and Ethari are each other's guiding moon‚ Janai and Amaya are each other's deep truth‚ Rayla and Callum are each other's guiding star and center.

Runaan and Ethari still love Rayla‚ Janai and Amaya still love their family‚ Rayla still loves her parents‚ Callum still loves Ezran.

Having a life partner doesn't eradicate your love for other people just because the feelings are different.

Get it right.

[atrophiedemotion]

this post has me thinking about ivan's plan going into round six and the fond smile ivan gives till before he dies and hoo boy.

i fully believe that ivan watched round five, saw how mizi forfeited the round and was saved, and decided to mirror her because that is the way ivan learns and acts. faking an attack towards till is what he sees as his best possible shot at saving them both, or, all else fails, at least till.

though i think, deep down, ivan was expecting it to go more or less the way it did. till is always the exception to ivan. most everyone else (aside from sua lmao) buys into his persona and reacts to him the way he wants. that's why ivan acts the way he does, why he fakes his personality- to get what he wants.

but till has never reacted to him the way he wants. and ivan still loves him, still cares for him, and honestly it might be because of that. he learns to accept any attention from till that he can get, even negative, because he values anything and everything till offers him. he knows that till will never react the way everyone else does and he prefers him that way, because that's what makes him till.

so maybe, just maybe, the smile he gives till when he knows it's too late is fond, is knowing. it's ivan reverently thinking, "you never fail to subvert my expectations, till. even when it's out of your control, my plans are always turned on their head when you're involved. i couldn't have expected anything different."

[marxism-transgenderism]

Andrew Jackson possessed enough blameworthy qualities to fill a demonology, and great relish is often taken, and maybe some anodyne achieved, by placing blame solely on him for the crime against humanity that is Indian removal. Yet the sources of Jackson’s policy lie in urges, at once territorial and military, that were inherent in creating the American nation. From Washington’s claims of desiring only peace and no Indian land, to Jefferson’s defining conquest as peacekeeping and removal as assimilation, much thoughtful official rhetoric regarding Indian rights marked the early national period, contradicted at every turn by the political and entrepreneurial actions taken by national officials. Jackson only collapsed that contradiction. His hustling age was tonally blunter than that of the founders, and he wouldn’t pretend to view Indian nations as sovereign. No president has ever put forth a policy of genocide. Yet thirty years after Andrew Jackson left office, General William Tecumseh Sherman, reporting to President Ulysses S. Grant on their efforts against the Plains Indians, felt free to put the policy this way: “even to their extermination, man, woman, and child.”

— William Hogeland, Autumn of the Black Snake: George Washington, Mad Anthony Wayne, and the Invasion That Opened the West

[utilitycaster]

You know what's interesting to me? For all people keep claiming at every juncture that perhaps Bells Hells will come around on the gods and see the harm they do (which, as discussed extensively, is, half the time, simply not intervening) not only have they never done so, but also they never quite cross the line into saying the party should join the Ruby Vanguard or aid them - and indeed, they defend against it - so what does this achieve? It feels like they're asking for a story in which the party stands idly by, which isn't much of a story nor, if I may connect this briefly to the real world, a political stance anyone should be proud of.

That's honestly the frustration with the gods and the "what if the Vanguard has a point" conversations in-game. What do we do then? Do we allow the organization that will murder anyone for pretty much any reason that loosely ties into their goals run rampant? The group that (perhaps unwittingly, but then again, Otohan's blades had that poison) disrupted magic world-wide, and caused people who had the misfortune to live at nexus points to be teleported (most, as commoners, without means of return). While also fomenting worldwide unrest?

Those were the arguments before the trip to Ruidus; with the reveal of the Vanguard's goals to invade Exandria, the situation becomes even more dire. Do you let the Imperium take over the planet?

And do the arguments against the gods even hold up? If Ludinus is so angry at them for the Calamity, what does it say that he destroyed Western Wildemount's first post-Calamity society for entirely selfish means? (What does it say about the validity of vengeance as a motivator?) What does it say that Laudna told Imogen she could always just live in a cottage quietly without issue before the solstice even happened? (Would this still be true if the Imperium controls the world?) What does it say that when faced with a furious, grieving party and the daughter she keeps telling herself was her reason for all of this, Liliana can't provide an answer to the question of what the gods have done other than that their followers will retaliate...for, you know, the Vanguard's endless list of murders. (That is how the Vanguard and Imperium tend to think, huh? "How dare your face get in the way of my boot; how dare you hit me back when I strike you.") She can't even provide a positive answer - why is Predathos better - other than "I feel it", even though Imogen and Fearne know firsthand that Predathos can provide artificial feelings of elation. Given all the harm Ludinus has done in pursuit, why isn't the conclusion "the gods should have crashed Aeor in such a way that the tech was unrecoverable?"

Even as early as the first real discussion on what the party should do, the fandom always stopped short of saying "no, Imogen's right, they should join up with the people who killed half the party," it was always "no, she didn't really mean it, she just was trying to connect with her mother." Well, she's connected with her mother, and at this point the party doesn't even care about the gods particularly (their only divinely-connected party member having died to prevent the Vanguard from killing all of them). So they will stop the Vanguard; as Ashton says, the means are unforgiveable. As Laudna says, it's not safe to bet on Predathos's apathy. As Imogen says, she's done running; the voice that she used to think of as a lifeline belongs to someone she doesn't trust. So I guess my question is: if they're stopping the people who are trying to kill the gods (and defense of the gods isn't remotely their personal motivation)...do you think the next phase of the campaign is Bells Hells personally killing the gods? Reconstructing the Aeor tech and hoping none of their allies notice? How does this end? Does your ideology ever get enacted? Or is this entirely moot and pointless and the story ends with Bells Hells saying "well, I'm really glad we stopped the people who [insert list of Vanguard atrocities from above]; none of us follow the gods or plan to, but honestly, the status quo we return to is preferable to whatever nightmare Ludinus had concocted in his violent quest for power and revenge"?

[shadowslocked]

I’m not really sure why people are (negatively) surprised there’s an event happening, the QSMP has been marching on for awhile now as they work on things behind the scenes. Whether its good or not, I don’t think it’s as shocking as people are making it out to be

Though would be nice if we could find out what the event even IS before getting up in arms about it

[eddiegettingshot]

we have talked about this before but i just feel like buddie being together opens up sooooo many doors. and the main door is that we’ve never gotten a couple who work together. so much of their relationship could happen at and through the 118 + emergencies and that’s in addition to the navigating the new family stuff and the individual arcs. LIKE!!!! it’s a gold mine!!!!!!!

[bietrofastimoff23]

I love the scene of Aegon's coronation. if the creators wanted to make the greens look pathetic in that stupid scene with Rhaenys, who decided to demonstrate her moral superiority by killing hundreds of citizens a second before, then they did not succeed. literally no one was particularly impressed by this shit, everyone just stared at her, staying in place. and even Alicent, scared to death, showed courage and stood in front of her son, looking danger in the eyes. tbh, this team has valyrian steel balls.

[philosophiums]

truly i have been eating all of the theories/ideas lately about itfs cursing each other in some way shape or form at the end of the manga. i love twisted love stories i love a bittersweet ending i love living through the tragedy by enacting violence upon yourself and your loved ones OUGH it's so good

megumi whose main goals this entire series have been centered around yuuji. yuuji who is possibly already acting under the (beginning?) effects of a curse that megumi put on him ("start by saving me" - could also argue that "you've got it from here" isn't helping either kjsdbvjkdfb). megumi who watched yuuji die once and who refuses to see it happen again. yuuji who has witnessed up close everyone dear to him die and cannot lose megumi too....

just... the fighting and clawing and tearing at themselves and each other - desperate to stay together no matter what, even if it leaves them scarred and broken on the other side. because wounds can heal and they can fight to realign themselves with each other and the world, but none of it means anything if they're not alive and together