#does not make for a good combo

[starsuncounted]

good news: got a cancellation appointment at a specialty clinic that I otherwise would have had to wait until spring to go to

bad news: I'll have to travel out of town for a doctor's appointment for the fourth week in a row

[vaguely-concerned]

lucanis truly has a near terminal case of burned out golden child syndrome. caterina fucked both of these kids over so incredibly bad with the dynamic she enforced there, with illario being labled the perpetual fuckup kid where lucanis 'could do no (would never be allowed to do) wrong'. the way he admits in the first coffee date scene that the only thing that happened when he showed he could carry the weight of expectation was that more weight was added makes me so sad. you can hear it in caterina's voice in his intro mission that she's incredibly proud of him, but this is clearly a leandra and hawke situation where that pride never translates into relief or resolution or unconditional warmth or understanding or anything that really helps.

[millidew]

slay the princess + togachako. anything is possible <3

(hey. click for princess shigaraki)

[fisheito]

@milkeumilkeou replied to your post “i feel like the gay child of an extremely...”:

This isn't exactly macro/micro but I always think about Yakumo having a little Eiden plushie and always having the strong urge to shove it into his mouth and one day he actually does it only to spit it out, horrified at himself and apologizes to the little Eiden plush while he washes his snaliva off of it

​snaliva.....

come to think of it, if eiden gave lil eiden plushies to each of his yokai buddies ... would ANY of those plushes stay dry?

in eiden's lil sanctuary with a fox, snake, wolf all the lil eidens are in various states of wet/torn/chewed eiden's daily tasks involve locating the plushies (and any dismembered parts of them) . wherever they may be. and mending/replacing them. every time he picks out a sopping muddy lil eito out of a pile of his used underwear he just wonders "why are you all like this"

[tsuchinokoroyale]

Was soooooo happy with this phase 1 which is what made it so much funnier that I was immediately clapped by his phase 2 😂

[imminent-danger-came]

While I do like the Eldritch MK theory, someone suggested that instead of being the reincarnation of a past enemy, MK is instead a sacrificial lamb for an enemy to come back (with him being referred to as harbinger).

Which raises a whole other question of who he is meant to be a sacrifice for.

Baby MK overall gives off the kind of vibes where he was created to be destroyed, doesn't he? I mean, why else create a "simple creature, with no past, no family, and no name". If something was just born (from a stone or not) of course it doesn't have any of those things—why specify it? You would only specify a detail like that if it was significant to why MK was created in the first place.

Which, this thought is not exclusive to Eldritch Abomination MK or to Harbinger MK, overall that feels like the implication. MK was made to be sacrificed in one way or another, whether that's to stop a past enemy, a returning one, or some other thing.

So, with MK being a sacrifice to chaos, I'm wondering why he would be given so much power. *throws dart at my idea board* Maybe he was made as some sort of ticking time bomb, created to destroy himself plus whatever threat he was meant to be a sacrifice for. *throws another dart* Or, perhaps he was created to be able to go toe to toe with whatever ends up being the embodiment of chaos!

Just to throw another dart at the wall: maybe MK was made as a counter measure to chaos itself! "There's a reason you were at the center of all these stories", that reason being to maintain balance and prevent the end of the world (of which he's done like, 4 times over now). "You don't use a weapon...you ARE a weapon!" aka MK is the ultimate weapon against literally any big bad.

Of course I'm partial to my own theory, but this is definitely a neat idea!

[marsixm]

actually him explaining the concept of skynet to me, and that being his first thought, made me start to wonder a few things- everyone always talks about this concept of ai computers becoming so smart they destroy everything, due to such an ingrained image of this from sci fi influencing people, the key point being that the ai was so *smart* it became self aware etc, so like, what if a lot of these people subconsciously believe ai- or things *called* ai- are good enough to become so smart theyre self aware, but believes the idea of it destroying the world is fantasy, thus letting the ai run rampant, but the truth is that the ai being pushed out which is clearly just a marketing gimmick to get investor money is NOT that fucking smart OR good but is still being pushed to run everything and that ends up destroying the world. is it a self fulfilling prophecy.

[skyloftian-nutcase]

You know, if I was an artist (and had patience, bless you artists lol) I'd draw scenes for Golden Mercy because putting any of this into words is kind of a nightmare right now, but there are lots of vibes and images LOL.

[magstorrn]

every few years im reminded that the war of the worlds stage show exists which is never good because i always find something new to hate about it

[starswallowingsea]

having thoughts about what makes an interesting idol rhythm game

[trans-xianxian]

I've really really loved this season of d20 but I do agree with the criticism that the combats have felt a little bit too low stakes. all of the battles have been really Fun and creative and d20 is first and foremost a comedy show, and especially with this season in particular, the conflict and stress wasn't supposed to be coming from the combats but I do feel like at times brennan gave the pcs some crazy insane advantage without matching the difficulty, so the battles often felt like there were no stakes

[contrabends]

i really resent the way they specifically retconned tess/joel in the show likeeeee a core part of tess' character is her inability to verbally express her love, how love, for her, is purely just devotion and acts of service. there are multiple points in canon dialogue where they infer that joel wants to settle with tess, it's tess that's always wanting to keep going, keep running — and that's also very key to her too. that she is incapable of stopping. that she does keep pushing herself to help her community because what else is there? what else would she ever do if she stops? who would step in if she does? and why would she stop, when she's still got blood flowing in her veins, when she can still get up and keep fighting?

(and that is love, too!! ANOTHER THING in the show that sucks ass is when joel says they should go home and she says "that's not my home" uhhhhhhhh yea the fuck it is babe — her whole contrast to joel is that she isn't just surviving like he is. THIS is her life, she is a shitty person — and she can live with that!!)

and in game canon too — knowing this is the last real conversation she has with joel and tess still can only say "there's enough here that you have to feel some sort of obligation to me." to her, love is her utility to others! she doesn't need to daydream about domesticity or confess anything! like !!!! devotion and loyalty and showing it with your actions and your body and your blood is what love is to tess, she would fucking die for love and wouldn't bat an eye — and that love isn't just romantic; she would die for her community, she was ready to die for ellie and she'd only just met her! and THAT'S what makes her compelling as fuck as a character literally why would they take that away from her in favor of just making her "lowkey unrequited romantic interest who is a top, who dies" in the show !!!

[incorrectfigureskatingopinions]

JUN LIVES

[waitineedaname]

wild how having something weird with your brain will have your brain reacting weirdly to things that are nice and good

[korattata]

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[laugtherhyena]

Playing Bomb rush cyberfunk has been a crazy experience so far because i feel like I've been enjoying the game just as much as I'm not doing so