#doubtful but still a possibility

[delightfuldevin]

I could say SO much about this game and how truly wonderful it is, but for the sake of my sanity, I will not try to articulate my feelings because I am Bad At Words. What I will do is ramble a teeny bit about Wonder Power!! (Very very minor spoilers ahead)

So, unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a clear cut explanation of what Wonder Power is (which isn’t surprising for a Mario game jbdcjbsd). All that can be said for certain is that Wonder Flowers release the power and Wonder Seeds absorb it. I suppose that makes Wonder Power somewhat cyclical? In the sense that a Flower will release the power, but it also releases a Seed to absorb it, which will then grow into a Flower and release the power again and produce a Seed, thus feeding a cycle of some kind.

Royal Seeds can be used to contain a large amount of Wonder Power. Maybe these ones don’t grow into Wonder Flowers? Or maybe the Royal Seed will grow and release an extremely large amount of Wonder Power before turning back into a Royal Seed to contain it? Not sure how those work.

(Minor Spoilers Here) A very common Wonder effect leads to producing a large amount of Super Stars and/or making certain enemies invincible. This, plus the Flower itself looking very similar to a Star, makes me wonder (lol) if Wonder Power is actually a subset of Star Magic. Though one thing about it is that it is very unpredictable and uncontrollable, which doesn’t match most depictions of Star Magic, which has very clear cut and mostly controlled effects.

There’s quite a few ideas I can spawn from this… Perhaps Wonder Power is the result of Star Magic somehow mixing with Dream Magic when the Dream World first connected to the real world? Or maybe something about the Flower Kingdom’s location made Star Magic react in a really weird way when it seeped into the soil. Maybe it has to do with the plants there? I’d like to think Wonder Power might be one of the oldest forms of Star Magic able to be used by mortals… Maybe even the Flower Kingdom was the first place where plants became sapient? Maybe the Poplins (or their ancestors I guess) were the first sapient plant creatures on the planet??

It’s too early for me to say for sure where this will fit in the grand scheme of my Mario lore, but it is really exciting to think about and consider!

[justabiteofspite]

I honestly don't get the spawn vs ascended debate when we really should all be coming together to shame those who think it's "unrealistic" that Astarion could fall in love with default dragonborn Durge on account of that Durge "not being attractive."

Like, I'm sorry, but are you fucking high? In what world is Default Durge not peak sex appeal? Big, tall, muscley thicc ass man who can barely run because he's so caked up with a deep, haunted voice struggling to overcome the darkness within himself all while looking like he could bite Cazador's head off in one satisfying crunch? You're telling me Astarion wouldn't be speed running that romance arc to climb him like a tree? Like that wet pathetic cat man looking for protection and attention wouldn't be the president, vice president, and treasurer of the "Top That Nice But Kind of Disturbed Hot Lizard" club?

Get fucking real.

[stormyoceans]

jeff and mike really said what if we starred in each other's series and our characters chased each other down in both but regardless of who does the chase our dynamic was 'jeff's character tilting mike's character's chin up with a weapon'

[edwinisms]

it’s actually so wild to me that this fairly quirky YA type show gave both of its main characters deaths that can, in one way or another, solidly be considered hate crimes. they were both flat out murdered as a result of being A) gay and effeminate or B) brown (south asian, specifically) and you could argue whether or not those kids thought of it that way in the moment or whatever but the bottom line is that they would not have been in the situations that killed them if they weren’t of their respective minorities. like legitimately that is a ballsy choice for this kind of netflix show, let alone for the two Main Characters, and i respect it big time

[sincerely-sofie]

Still haunted by my conversation with @oblonger about my most bizarro Slay the Princess theory yet. His reaction scares me. I definitely got things wrong, but they’re wrong in a way that amuses the people who have seen the theories I pose, which feels veRY MUCH CONCERNING

[skitskatdacat63]

2023 Qatar Grand Prix - Sprint - Oscar Piastri

[nightmare-foundation]

The fact that there aren't any fics (that I know of) talking about Dicks time(s) in Arkham Asylum, specifically the time in Batman: RIP (iirc) that he was there for a full week, and the resulting trauma from that experience, is a fucking CRIME

Like... that's a goldmine of whump and angst if that's up your alley, especially hurt/comfort. On top of that it just sucks it's never talked about or even mentioned bc that experience would be deeply traumatizing.

Like cmoooon we need fic on this

[dariusaurs]

i think dinostar is such an interesting ship right now even if i've kind of turned away from it after this season. the problem is that it's complicated, and fandoms historically don't like nuanced situations or takes. i don't think it's fair to say darius is putting brooklynn on a pedestal, since from his perspective, she hasn't done anything wrong, and kenji has been framed as this unfair partner to her. it does feel like his feelings are very immature and more of an infatuation right now ("if he loved you half as much.."/"unless?"), especially when you compare them to kenji's own feelings for brooklynn - his girlfriend who he's loved for 6 years - but that isn't a horrible thing, it's just different. i do completely understand if people dislike the ship right now, and even criticize darius' way of handling the accidental confession, but i just think people have been way too harsh on all three of them without being willing to see that all of their perspectives are different

[tev-the-random]

"Aw man, what are they gonna do with Shadow now that he got his closure with Maria's wish and everything? What sort of story can he possibly have after that?"

*points frantically at Sonic 06*

[soulless-bex]

if you don’t portray your Tim Drake as a hyper competent freak of nature, then is it really Tim Drake?

[niko-sasaki-dbd]

Hello- as someone who likes astrology bug can not read a proper birth chart- can you tell me what Edwin’s star/moon/asc are? I was curious but yeah I can not read that chart for the life of me 😅

Hey! 🩷

Of course, let's see:

Sun/Star Sign: Capricorn ♑

Moon: Leo ♌

Ascendant: Virgo ♍

The other positions are under the cut 💫

MC/Mid Heaven: Gemini ♊

Lilith: Sagittarius ♐

EP/East Point: Virgo ♍

North Node: Cancer ♋

Mercury: Capricorn ♑

Venus: Capricorn ♑

Mars: Gemini ♊

Jupiter: Scorpio ♏

Saturn: I can't find the glyph :/

Uranus: Gemini ♊

Neptune: Libra ♎

Pluto: Leo ♌

Part of Fortune: ♑

The Part of Fortune (symbolized by a circle with an X) represents how an individual physically connects with the world around them. It's a key indicator for the body, health, prosperity, and career. Calculated from the Sun, Moon, and Ascendant positions in a birth chart, it holds comparable importance to these vital points, just as the MC. It's important to mention that its calculation vary due to two different formulas based on birth time (day/night), which leads to frequent mistakes.

Houses:

The Houses start counting from the Ascendant, so you can say Virgo is in 1st House/Place, and continue from there as it is indicated in the chart.

I think most of you would be interested in the 5th House (♑), or probably the 7th (♓) as they rule aspects related to romance and relationships/partnerships respectively. Also, the 8th House (♈), which between other things, rules death and deep connections.

[poisonousquinzel]

Batman (2016) #100

the way it probably took him a second to find her after he abandoned Joker and chased after her. how the bomb evidently did detonate.

i'll ponder forever over how that moment went down and how he prevented the explosion from killing her, but not enough to save her from being severely injured & unconscious for a week recovering. how he spent hours at her bedside in case she happened to wake up that day, how he went to her hospital room on that day as well despite "I had to bury my father again today. I did it with my family." And having every beyond reasonable excuse to just not that day,,. he still made time and effort to check in on her.

the day dc treats harley's suicidal ideation as exactly what it is and let's the characters around her acknowledge it will be a glorious win for the community

[overly-verbose]

If SIkuna will get the Heian era form later, can he change his appearance? I mean, it will be weird to see a guy with four arms hanging in public.

Assuming he were to do that,

(who knows, not me (I do lol) , if the hypothetical timeline where he and Yuji get separated is gonna be Canon to the Series *HeeHee HoHo's mysteriously*)

yup!

His alternate, 'human' form would be strongly based off of Yuji still, but with some differences.

(I've kinda drawn that as well, but I can definitely imagine it not exactly being clearly explained lol)

For one, he's significantly taller than Yuji (at least for now, the kid is most likely gonna grow to be not as much shorter lol) - although he can be shorter.

He usually isn't much 'shorter', because it's more comfortable - any much lower and it'd feel a bit like a too-tight shirt, but for your whole body lol

('down' to 6~ft/182~cm (wherein he usually stays at 6.4-5ft/193-195~cm) is the min. of proper comfiness)

He also wears earrings (I usually imagined some simple black ones, but he could just as well wear something Hello Kitty related lol (both for the Meme and just because) or just cute, or more colourful), and his left eyebrow has two slits - to kinda connect him visually to his Big Form heh

(I'm kinda contemplating adding some other things but yeah that's the bigger things heh)

And, although usually he only has these whilst in the Bigg form, he can have four arms, stomach mouth, and such whilst 'small' as well - but yeah, that's not exactly something that'd be useful/possible to use in public 😂

As shown in Chapter 2 of Visuals (although it is a different timeline, SIkuna is SIkuna lol), he can sometimes forget to close his secondary eyes, especially at the beginning of the Separation or when kinda mentally tired - it's just much more natural for them to be open

Some random person is more likely to assume they imagined it or he just had good cosplay than actual four eyes though, so hey at least there's that saving him

Not to mention interference from the kids he's likely hanging out with lol, Nobara is a quick-thinking Queen when her older familial figure is being a dum-dum and forgoring 💀 how to Human properly and we love her for it 👏

Since I imagine her dragging SIkuna out for clothes shopping relatively often, perhaps with other kids as well - and SIkuna doesn't mind it at all, he loves actively participating in the kids' hobbies 🥺 - she probably had to cover for his spookiness and such quite often lmao, even if he tries his best 😂

He is very respectful and polite to any workers they might encounter during their shopping though (well, assuming they aren't being unreasonably rude themselves but that's rare, especially in Japan I'd imagine), so fortunately even despite his Vibes being Very Off the two (or more) usually end up being a nice surprise to them actually lmao

- the fact that SIkuna likely takes everything that isn't chosen back perfectly into place whilst waiting for Nobara/other kids to put another outfit on probably makes their spookiness easier to deal with as well 😂😂😂

(He's not 'spared' from dressing up, but he can lighten the load on the workers' shoulders a little bit while he waits his turn, you know - he might be partially old as hell and from a time where that would have been unheard of to do for the sake of 'servants', but he also is partially someone from the 2020's lmao, he gets the pain)

(Imagine crossovers with Canon whilst he's in this form though lol, I feel like one Quite painful Misunderstanding that could happen is that This Other Sukuna apparently completely took over an older Yuji or something (since he clearly isn't there but Sukuna looks. like he looks.) OOF-)

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[theoryofwhatnow]

alex and nigel

what they would’ve actually looked like

[akaikali]

TMAGP EP 10 SPOILER (THEORY ABOUT [ERROR])

People are probably very confused by me bringing up Lucia Wright from TMA so let me explain why I think [ERROR] might be her.

It's rly simple lmao. I listen to TMAGP on YouTube so after the episode was done, I checked the cast list on YouTube. [ERROR] was credited as Beth Eyre (still weirded out by Bonzo being uncredited though).

I did a little bit of digging and found out Beth Eyre did actually guest star in one of the TMA episodes, MAG130, The Flesh.

She was Lucia Wright, the church-visiting girl who accidentally got caught in the Slaughter ritual and was the only one to survive. She came to the institute to give Gertrude her statement.

Now, obviously they could be reusing VAs to play completely different characters but with the theme of Celia, Gerry, and Gertrude being played by their original VAs, even if they're the TMAGP version of themselves, I strongly believe that's not the case.

I think that Lucia Wright could be our key to figuring out how Celia got here.

We see her escaping the tunnels which still exist here so the Panopticon probably still exists. Additionally, she doesn't sound like she's in a good state so I assume she's been hiding down there. Maybe Celia went through the same thing but had the time to adjust? And when she was ready, Celia came up and found the OIAR since they're the closest thing this universe has the institute after it burned down.

I will say though, we're basically seeing people who were not main characters or really all that important but whose voices we HAVE actually heard. Celia and Lucia. I know Gerry and Gertrude are important in TMA but like Gerry was actually one IN one episode.

So yeah, here's why I keep saying it's Lucia Wright lol and I'm excited bc I genuinely like her. I mean. Complicated relationship with religion but then finding a way to make her peace with it? Visiting all other places worship without judgment? SURVIVED A FUCKING FLESH RITUAL???

Like obviously she probably ended up in a flesh dimension when the TMA world went Eyepocalypse, so was she prey or a hunter? And did she get sucked through the Hilltop Road rift?

Four weeks till we get anything AAAAAA (I know we won't get answers about this for ages though)

[golvio]

Still thinking about the stark contrast between the general grim, highly-restrained stoicism of TotK Ganondorf’s human form compared to the exaggerated, rapidly shifting moods of “Yippee! :D Whee!! :DD Wahoo!!! :DDD *does a cute little backflip*” and “YOU STOP RUINING MY FUN RIGHT NOW OR I WILL THROW A BIG DIVO TEMPER TANTRUM AND WRECK EVERYTHING!” of his Demon King form.

Guy’s pretty obviously repressed as hell, and I think that’s one of the reasons he always goes off the rails the second he gets a chance to step out of his ceremonial One Special Man role. However, the fact that what he’s repressing feels so…childish, even the violent parts…I’m wondering if the guy ever got the chance to be a child when he was actually little.

Maybe he got yelled at and punished for making simple inexperienced baby mistakes the way Zelda was because he was under similar pressure to Fix Everything and symbolically parent all his adult subjects/family members as a Symbol of Hope that could soothe their fears and anxieties on-demand. (Not to mention Buliara’s mom raised a bit of a red flag about authoritarian parenting styles being common in Gerudo military families). Only instead of just suppressing everything and standing perfectly still and quiet in public while floundering in private like Zelda did, he got extremely skilled at convincing the people around him he was the mature, unflappable, strong, comforting, and eternally available collective cultural father-figure who’d guide them out of the hard times they were trying to hammer him into.

Only…that wasn’t real personal development, only the illusion of development. He encased his true personality in the superficial shell of the sexy manly-man hero that everyone wanted him to be. The second he was able to emerge from that shell without anyone being able to punish him for it, that inner traumatized little jerk immediately started lashing out in revenge at the people who held him to such an impossible standard in an effort to finally feel in control of his own life. It’s like a former child star melting down upon entering adulthood after being denied agency and independence by the studio they’re contracted with and their financially profiting family for so long, only with magic and the forsaking of one’s own humanity involved.

That underlying theme of metamorphosis throughout the game, echoed in Kotlin’s “dream,” could’ve been capitalized on here. The people loved the shiny gold cocoon the weak, helpless larva formed, begging it to never emerge so they could enjoy its beauty forever. But he knows, he knows that if he never breaks open the shell encasing him, he’ll die before he ever gets the chance to unfurl his wings. The form they love is incomplete, shallow, temporary. He’ll die if he can’t discard it. He would rather be alive and horrible to behold than dead and perfect. The people will hate what emerges from their jewel, but in this new shape he can sting and bite back, so let them hate him.

But, also, just…could you imagine if we had a chance to meet The Cocoon and the people who worshipped it, saying how much they love their king while knowing absolutely nothing about him, only to find out he had his own “secret sanctuary” much like Zelda did? Somewhere we could glimpse the soft, hungry insect of his soul that yearned to break free? What we’d see in the pieces of his secret joys scattered around and the scratches of his notes would be something ugly, bitter, childishly self-centered, yes. But in there would also be real passion, real feeling, a real life desperate to finally live that would make the handsome shell brandishing a sword feel hollow, uncanny, and downright off-putting by comparison.