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hero/villain showdown but one of them has a spontaneous medical emergency and the battle gets put on hold while their archnemesis drives them to Urgent Care
#it should be like. a hernia. or diverticulitis#something intestinal for maximum Awkward Scenario#and the entire car ride alternates between awkward silence and the driver lecturing their nemesis on the importance of regular check-ups#this is funnier if the hero is the one having the hernia tbh. but both options are Very Good#want to emphasize that it is a 'medical emergency ' that is clearly not extreme enough for the emergency room#and the sidekick/henchperson gets stuck in traffic so the hero/villain stays for moral support#they spend 8 hours in the waiting room playing Uno (it devolves into a screaming match)#at the end of the ordeal one of them vows to burn the hospital to the ground with their laser eye powers#and it's Not The One You Think#oh oh oh! ALTERNATIVELY:#it's an allergic reaction; one of them accidentally poisoned the other by using like. soybean derivative in a tranquilizer dart#emphasis on *accidentally*. yes they were technically fighting but That Wasn't Supposed To Happen#so now they're obligated to take responsibility and Stay In The Waiting Room#(can't decide if it's funnier if it's the hero or the villain stuck in this situation)#(probably the villain)#“why didn't you TELL me you were allergic to soybeans???”#“um because you would use it against me in combat?”#“as opposed to NOT telling me! which has worked out fantastic for you!!!”#villain being genuinely offended bc they have a biochemistry degree and have invented literally dozens of untraceable poisons#they have the scientific skill to poison their favorite jackass in hundreds of ways#(and have done so before! in admittedly non-fatal outcomes but that was by design okay)#but it's “dangerous” to do them the simple curtesy of informing them about a SOY ALLERGY????#above all else they consider themself a scientist#and they're LIVID that their favorite (reluctant) test subject lied about their medical history#“technically i didn't LIE--#“I read you the questionnaire! the very first time i held u hostage i READ YOU THE QUESTIONNAIRE!!!”#“...the what now”#“the MEDI--holy shit you weren't even paying attention were you#i had you bound and gagged over an ACTUAL BUBBLING ACID PIT and you couldn't even be bothered to--#“--so i was obviously a bit BUSY at that moment! I'm sorry i ignored your VILLAINOUS MONOLOGUING while the BLOOD WAS RUSHING TO MY HEAD but
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Listen All Systems Red is so so funny from Gurathins perspective imagine you grew up with Space Socialism and was hired to go help some pal with science but you weren't allowed to go unless you rented AmaTeslas Torment Nexus Alexa Dot and then when you get there you find out a whole continent of people got annihilated by their Tourment Nexus rentals so you take a moment to check yours quickly and find out it already had disengaged its Don't Kill People box, the only thing you've ever been told prevented them from mass homiciding their clients, something that LITERALLY just happened to people you knew a day ago, and when you say to your fellow socialist doctors HEY I think our Tourment Nexus is fucked up and it's files said it killed dozens of people barely a year ago and we should probably get the hell away from it the same doctors are like look at what you're saying. You're hurting the Tourment Nexus' feelings. The Tourment Nexus is just a little construct who likes Netflix Gurathin stop antagonizing it on the plane ride.
#murderbot diaries#tmbd#For the amount of emphasis the story puts on SecUnits Scary it would make sense if more than just Gurathin were sceptical/untrusting#One book IS not big enough to cover that many characters and how they feel about everything tho without getting bloated#Not a criticism or anything just an observation
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sorry that I shipped bkdk from scene one, can’t help that my taste is immaculate and I’m always correct about everything ever 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
#there were 4 seasons out by the time I officially sat down and watched the show/read the manga#but even before then I was shipping them adjacently because of all the memes lmao#I heard they didn’t get along and it activated the ‘I need to push them together NOW’ neurons#also I’m sorry but I can’t stand people who say ‘you can only ship them after dvk2’#oh so you hate fun and lack whimsy#said this before but anyone with half a braincell knew their dynamic was going to evolve#there wouldn’t have been that much emphasis on katsuki right off the bat if it didn’t lol#bkdk#dkbk#bakudeku#dekubaku#:’)#ktdk
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Vegan leather is a plague.
#ramblies#my new shoes reek#I desperately wanted real leather but the company only had low shoes and I wanted the patterened boots#I want to run away from my foot odor but it's not remotely the kind of foot odor anyone would expect#I wasn't prepared either cause the last shoes I got from this company were genuine leather and didn't reek like this#the demonization of leather is truly awful and it's especially annoying that I've seen a few preachy messages in romance books lately#being like oh we need to switch to vegan leather for sustainability-#bitch it's plastic!! That is 1000% not better than real leather and the cows were already dead#but because of the emphasis on not using real leather now all these cow hides are going to waste because there's not a market#the cows were already dead now it's just disrespectful
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Wildcard idea: nothing
Yes thats right, nothing.
Imagine how increasingly anxious all the players become when a card is rolled and its effects arent immedietly obvious. That anxiety turning into sheer terror as th3 session goes on and they still can't figure out what the card is. Not trusting any feature of the game as anything could be the thing to betray them.
Grian would be having the time of his life tho
Something something trafficblr is a hivemind...
#there were two asks like this. and then i got four more in like two days#so i'm combining them all... for emphasis <3#this would be SO funny. literally ANY of these#like PLEEEASE...#bad traffic idea#ask#trafficblr#wild life smp#good idea#i really like these ones all together
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After struggling for over a decade to find jeans like the ones I was comfortable with in middle school I have finally found that men's relaxed fit jeans were all i wanted
#No emphasis on my hips or thighs? Check#Doesn't have the waist go over my belly button? Check#Those were literally the only two things....
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#rewatched enchanted and realized what this reminds me of#kingdom hearts#enchanted#the stereotypical fairytale expectation that is set up to be subverted#as the characters grow beyond classic disney tropes#these characters are Not on the same page anymore. if they ever really were#this scene also starts with an emphasis on robert and giselle’s connection#much like in kh the scene starts with an emphasis on riku and sora’s connection#relationships that have seen significant development#in contrast to those that are pretty static and rely heavily on trope expectations
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do you ever think about how solas repeatedly states that he is a man and not a god, not out of humility per se but because he is desperate for someone to see how much pain he is in? 'god' implies a level of invulnerability which is completely at odds with who he is. the man is in a world of pain and he is constantly asking for it to be acknowledged.
#taleani is an empath and she picks up on this right away#he seemed so kind and wise and sad#emphasis on the sad#they were absolutely feeling every moment of pain and sorrow he was going through even when they didn't fully know who he was#the fact that they bonded with him as a man and not as fen'harel is the key here#solas falls in love because he is treated as an equal for the first time in possibly ever#not a lap dog and not a god#just a man who is in love with someone#who is giving advice and offering his wisdom#and is able to be vulnerable with another person for the first time in a long long time#without having that vulnerability used against him
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have you ever heard it? can you remember?
i. The gulls were crying. The gulls were always crying, in her memory. Whatever far off places Susan travelled after her family was gone, she always came back to the sea.
ii. The beach at Cair Paravel was the first place in Narnia where she really felt at home. She'd wade into the water with her eyes shut and feel she could be in England, on holiday with her mother and father. She'd open her eyes, and there would be waves cascading endlessly towards her.
iii. Before long, she knew every tidepool, every shoal.
iv. There weren't any bathing suits in Narnia, but no one seemed the least scandalized when Susan took to swimming in her underthings. There wasn't anything else for it, and she had to swim. She just had to.
v. She wasn't the only one of her siblings to love the sea, of course. Edmund loved sand and sailing and reading on the beach, and Peter liked to gaze out at the ocean and think. Lucy spent even more time at the beach than Susan did; she would rise before dawn and sit on the rocks as the sun rose over the waves. Susan was never sure whether her little sister was there to greet the sunrise, or to wait for Aslan.
vi. But for Susan, it was sense-memory. Water was water, wherever she was, and it always reminded her of home. She'd go out past the breakers, pull her limbs into a familiar breast stroke, and she'd feel like she was everywhere she loved all at once.
vii. Aslan came, and she was soaking wet to greet him. He laughed, in his lion-ish way, and didn't mind at all when Susan embraced him.
viii. Somehow, Aslan never got drenched from his journeys across the sea, but he was damp as though with mist. The scent of salt and brine clung to him, an overtone to that fierce, wild smell that was his own. Susan breathed in deep, those two scents she loved most in the world.
ix. In England, back at school, she'd go to the swimming pool and imagine she was in Narnia.
x. It wasn't the same, of course. The swimming pool at her school had no crying gulls, no smell of salt, no cascading waves. There was no Aslan coming towards her from the T-line at the other end of the pool. But if she submerged herself completely, Susan could imagine.
xi. She swam with her eyes shut too often, and her coach was growing irritated. It was affecting her times in practice, which would bleed over into competition if she wasn't careful. Somehow, Susan couldn't be bothered to care.
xii. One weekend, she and Lucy snuck away to visit the boys, and they all went down to the lake to reminisce about Narnia. When Lucy and Edmund spoke of their summer sailing the eastern sea, Susan was positively stiff with jealousy. Yet when they all dove into the water in the end, her heart pounded out a rhythm of home, home.
xiii. Six years after her last trip to Narnia, Susan hadn't touched a bow in four years. She still went swimming every week.
xiv. After the railway accident, she went to live by the sea. She missed her family, and she couldn't stand to live in the places they had lived. She wanted to forget.
xv. Susan had missed the salt air. She had missed the waves. There was a feeling of home by the sea that she couldn't quite place; a soothing echo of long ago dreams and fairytales.
xvi. But there were the gulls crying, "Can you remember?" and it broke her heart all over again.
#susan the competitive swimmer is one of those little details that jack drops once and never metions again#but oh my goodness it HAUNTS me#Susan the competitive swimmer who never saw the last sea!#and like. he doesn't just say 'oh btw this was something she did for a while'#the line is 'swimming and archery were THE THINGS susan was good at'#emphasis mine obv#so i have to imagine that she feels just incredibly at home in the water#and like. the Implications#narnia#leah stories#tender hearted big sis#pontifications and creations#also lol this is just in time for the summer Olympics
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for anyone who does not want to see the new eyestraining effects on Flight Rising - or, really, for anyone who just doesn't want to see effects at all - there are two ways to (sort of) filter them. Both methods block all effects on the site, but both of them break Scenic Mode as effects are now tied to Scenic Mode.
Option 1 is to turn off WebGL. This retains the original dragon image without displaying the effect. Scenic mode only displays the original dragon .png as a fallback. Turning on/off WebGL will vary based on device, but the how-to should be easy to do + easy to search up online.
Option 2 uses a uBlock Origin filter, completely hiding any dragon onsite with an effect. Scenic Mode displays a solid white box. If you don't have uBlock, I highly, highly recommend it. It makes the Internet much more bearable.
uBlock method below:
Go into your uBlock dashboard (gear icon in the bottom right of the extension menu).
You should be in your filters menu, which looks like a dark box with numbers on the left. on a new line, type in this:
www1.flightrising.com##.dragon-effect-frame
3. Hit the 'Apply Changes' button in the top left corner.
Should you want to remove this filter, simply delete the line listed above. Make sure to hit 'Apply Changes' after.
How I think it works (not an expert) is that the frame holds the effect, so filtering the frame subsequently filters all effects.
It's puzzling to me how staff can release effects, acknowledge the eyestrain/motion sickness side effects, and then release even worse effects while waltzing into forums hawking the alt text function (that was barely advertised upon launch). With enough uproar I'm guessing there will be a real toggle for effects eventually, or at least a long-winded 'we're working on things' letter that will ultimately go nowhere.
#if I sound snippy it's because I'm photosensitive and quite frankly i think effects were a bad idea from day 1#i personally prefer the disabled webgl version because it displays the original dragon and doesn't make the png disappear#but idk if disabling webgl is viable for everyone so the ublock filter is a second option#i'll monitor how these 'fixes' (emphasis on quotations because they are kinda shoddy) shake out and update as needed and stuff#just. rargh. so frustrating! who decided this? who thought those effects were a good idea?#flight rising#flight rising effects#rook roars!
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I love your werewolf Eridan and vampire sollux? Aghh I probably uh did it wrong but ongg the designs for them are so cute <3
Tiny bat sollux
I just wanna put him in my shirt pocket and have him as company
sorry anon i think they're being too stupid to let you do that lmao
#tmos opens mail#Anonymous#tmos has art#eridan ampora#sollux captor#erisol#werepire au#points at eridan. hes being a guard dog about his spot and roles by solluxs side. gay little shit LOL#also tried to draw more emphasis of him kicking his leg out while they were both tipping over but it did NOT work. devastating#& while im looking at sollux rn as i type this. he turns more and more into a tricky little jokester every time i draw him for this au istg#having 'he canonically took his look from marshall lee and will keep this secret til his doom' does that to him i guess o7 gender win or w/
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"Scar and Grian were the villians of 3rd Life" this "Ren and Martyn were the villains of 3rd Life" that. I'm pretty sure everyone but these guys were a victim in 3rd Life actually
#emphasis on the crastle alliance Joel and the husbands#Skizz Bigb and Etho were pretty tight with dogwarts they kinda had it coming#Cleo and Bdubs did NOT have it coming#smooziespeaks#life series#trafficblr#life smp#3rd life
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So about Emmrich's ring that was from his father:
I've seen discussion on how it's probably not real gold, or that the large stone in it is actually colored glass, and I'd like to add my own like. Possible suggestions on it.
What if the stone is quartz dyed red, and the ring is bronze (I've seen a lot of ppl hc it as copper) gilded gold?
Or, what if Emmrich had the ring plated with gold at some point? Do you think he even would, or do you think he'd preserve it as it was? (Kinda like how some plush restoration has new fur put over the old fur so like the old plush is underneath the new fur like a nesting doll vs just getting the plush washed, patched where desperately needed, and restuffed)
What if it is actually like. 10k gold with a red jasper stone? Or more gold with a garnet or something?
#emmrich volkarin#Datv#I'm always curious on what ppl think it could be and if they have reasons why#Like we know his folks were poor but were they always and could this be a family heirloom#With Nevarra's emphasis on grave gold and the dead do they perhaps like. Have systems in place where even the poor can have a piece?#Or rather is the emphasis on grave gold so great that families are willing to go hungry/go without a lot for a while#JUST SO they can have a piece of grave gold? What if it's actually just a wedding ring
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There needs to be a scientific study done on how Rockstar Games' Arthur Morgan is able to provoke the most earth shattering emotions I didn't even know I had in me
#you guys get me right#like you feel it deep in your chest#the joy the anguish the grief#it feels like words aren't enough#and I don't mean it as in “sad moment in video game makes you sad”#I mean it as in “a deep and well written moment that has been slowly building is fleshed out in a video game and I think about for weeks”#when I say I lose sleep over this game I really mean it#I spend hours just laying in bed thinking about everything that happens in arthur morgan's life#it eats at me#I'm not ashamed of how much I have cried over this game#it fucking gets to me#playing rdr2 is the best form of escapism until the story hits you like a stab in the chest but the blade just pushes in further and further#until you're left with a gaping wound#“wow michael I didn't know you were so emotional over pixels on a screen”#except those pixels were acted out and performed by real people and voiced by real people and designed to look like real people#the game's main target was historic realism emphasis on REALISM#to provoke emotions through amazing storytelling#it's okay to feel strongly about things!!#this game man#this game#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#mick squeaks#mick thinks#arthur morgan#red dead redemption 2 spoilers
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Until Dawn vs Until Dawn Remake
From one of my old Reddit posts— what do you make of the changes to the hour glass lineup? Original on top, remake on bottom.

#This is more accurate to the story importance of the characters#Matt being the focal character before was interesting#His one time in the spotlight#I like that there’s color now#they’re facing the other direction#Ashley lost her flashlight but they gave her her outdoor coat#people were excited to see Emily and Jess beside each other#maybe they have a little more content#but we can only guess#my boy Chris has a proper amount of emphasis this time#I will always hype him up#until dawn#until dawn remake#josh washington#chris hartley#sam giddings#mike munroe#jessica riley#matt taylor#ashley brown#emily davis
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For the kind of games that they were, I never would have expected that the some of the dudes would be so tender with each other honestly? Like the way Venom cradles Kaz's face in his hands before he puts his sunglasses on him, or the way Snake hugs Otacon cuz he's just lost his sister and he's scared makes me a little insane.
#I didn't have any interest in mgs for the longest time bc I thought they were just like. dudebro military games#but they're so much more than that and I wish I could articulate my thoughts on the themes in the game#Because I really didn't expect them to have a strong emphasis on the preservation of life and culture#metal gear solid#mgs
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