#family powerpoints

[hailsatanacab]

A Persuasive Argument - dpxdc

"Great!" Danny says, clapping his hands together to get everyone's attention. The dinner table falls silent as everyone looks towards him. It's a full house today and, honestly, Danny's a little nervous. "I'm sure you're all wondering why I gathered you here today."

"It's dinnertime. In our house." Duke mutters, while doing a very bad job of concealing his yawn. He holds his fork poised over the braised beef, but, just like everyone else, still looks towards Danny before tucking in. It's intriguing enough to wait.

"Yeah, no one misses Alfie's dinner." Dick says, with a brilliant smile that Danny can't help but return.

"Precisely! What better time to talk to you all than when you're all actually here!"

"Wait, I thought you came round to work on our English essays?" Tim asks, blinking owlishly.

"I'm afraid I've lured you here under false pretences, Tim."

"This is where I live."

"I would still really appreciate help on that essay though, I mean, what the hell is Hamlet even about? I just don't get that old time-y language, like 'Hark! A ghost hath killed me!' - absolute rubbish, what does that even mean?"

"The ghost never kills anyone in Hamlet, he's there to tell Hamlet that he was murdered. Have you actually read it?"

"No, but it sounds like you have. Tim, I want this guy to help me with my essay instead. I know for a fact that you haven't read Hamlet, either."

"So? We don't need Jason, I've read the Sparknotes."

"Hi Jason, I'm Danny, pleasure to meet you, summarise Hamlet in three sentences or less."

"Am I auditioning to help you write your essays? I can't believe you’ve gone through your whole school life without reading it, it’s good!"

"Hamlet, along with a number of other classics, was banned in our house because it portrayed ghosts as intelligent and sympathetic beings rather than evil, animalistic beasts. I didn’t even get to see The Muppet's Christmas Carol until last year with Tim! It was surprisingly good, and I hate Christmas because everyone always argued and it sucked. But we're getting off topic. I—"

"No, no, please go back to that, because what the fu—"

"Boys, please." Bruce interrupts, looking to the world as if he wants to hang his head in his hands. "Danny, you were about to say something?"

"Oh, yeah, Mr. Wayne! Thanks!"

"Please, call me Bruce."

"Well, that very succinctly brings me to my point, because I'd actually really like to call you dad."

Nobody says a word. Nobody even blinks, all as shocked as the other, watching open-mouthed as Danny pulls his laptop out from beside his chair. Bruce can definitely feel a headache coming on.

"Before you say anything, I've prepared a 69 slide PowerPoint presentation on why you, Bruce Wayne, should adopt me, Danny Last-Name-Pending. Please save your questions, comments, and verdict until the end, thank you."

[karvviie]

for my next infodump night i think i will make a powerpoint explaining the 21 year long grimmons queerbait with evidence

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Dr. Doofenshmirtz was trying to convince my boyfriend that he is his real dad by showing us an overedited PowerPoint presentation.

No one believed him.

[babybells123]

(ASOS, Sansa II)

(ASOS, Jon XII)

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

hi there! You may have seen my lil idea post of Player2 potentially being Player’s Nobody. Thanks to some friends and a fun powerpoint night, I had the chance to craft that idea into more of a solid theory.

I’ve included some slides below, but you can see the entire powerpoint and text document where I go into more detail about it HERE!

* Spoiler warning for khml’s May 2024 beta *

[mohntilyet]

i read the wigmaker job recently and there’s an idea that really stuck with me, which may well have been discussed before, but it’s really been itching at me. it came from this exchange near the end –

“i don't want to quit.” / illario sat back. the distance between them suddenly felt much wider than a table. / “even if it kills you,” illario whispered. / “death is my calling,” lucanis stated, matter-of-fact. “just as yours is to become first talon.”

(the bits before and after this give important context, too, but these specific lines are what gnaw at me)

i. really wonder if this conversation – and the long-standing beliefs held by both of them that it’s indicative of – contributed to giving lucanis to zara.

like, illario coming to terms with the fact that lucanis really just will. not. stop. for ANYTHING. his cousin WILL get himself killed doing this and lucanis won’t have any regrets. he’ll leave illario to go this alone. (no one to follow after anymore.) combined with the envy of knowing that lucanis is and always will be caterina’s favorite, and she will likely pick lucanis to be first talon even tho lucanis does not want this At All…

i wonder if he thought that, well, if lucanis is going to die anyway… maybe it’s better to have it happen sooner, rather than later. why put off the inevitable? especially if this is the one thing that could shift caterina’s gaze to illario and give him what he’s wanted – what he’s earned.

lucanis wouldn’t be happy as first talon anyway (honestly, illario seems to see that what lucanis is NOW isn’t so much ‘happy’ as it is ‘obedient and content to accept the scraps that gives him’), and he’s GOING to get himself killed doing this, anyway… and sure, they COULD wait it out. wait for lucanis to do something foolish enough that he can't just walk away from it. maybe he’ll even last long enough to be made first talon (if caterina can ever bear to loosen her grip from the title) and be miserable for a while. years even, maybe. before he, again, does something he can’t walk away from.

OR. or. or illario could cut through all the pointless waiting and get right to the point. go straight to where this was always going to end up.

(and maybe part of it is an extension of anticipated grief, too – the loss will be agony. if illario controls when and how it happens, he can control his grief. …except he hasn’t accepted the inevitability of lucanis’ death quite as well as he’d thought and when he gets sloshed at the wake, real grief seeps through the cracks)

i dunno. something about both of them viewing lucanis’ death as a foregone conclusion and how illario Might have had that shape his decisions.

YEAH . YEAHHHHH. i do also think the “to reason” exchange is what solidifies it in illario’s mind. lucanis is like 'this has been a productive if tense talk with my cousin. surely he sees sense now.' and illario is like ‘what the fuck. i think he wants to die’ <- okay im exaggerating a bit but i do absolutely see the end of wigmaker’s job as the start of lucanis-illario’s downward spiral. there’s a reason that it’s something lucanis is stuck on during inner demons, and the exchange that you have very nicely broken down is what he hears echoes of, this is where he knows it started to go wrong

probably the worst part is lucanis WOULD have worked himself to death and it takes the series of events in veilguard for lucanis to see other options for his life, and still he ends up being shoehorned into first talon by the end of the quest. i thought his quest would parallel iron bull’s, in that rook shows them that living outside and away from crow influence is possible, and that he is much more than the weapon they turned him into, but it ofc doesn’t go through like that. it’s genuinely a bit heartbreaking that lucanis finally has support and like. FRIENDS. but with the way the game ends he’s pulled back into the crows and to a life that will be about protecting a cousin that the organisation he runs hates, and for as long as caterina lives, unable to say no to her. and meanwhile after lucanis has made connections outside of the crows, illario has absolutely nothing left (prison of his own making i get it but i still want to get his ass out of there. 😭) so the codependency that they used to share is gone as well. maybe lucanis has a foot out the door but i genuinely have no idea how illario goes on after this

[franollie]

shes the funniest person on the planet

[murasaki-cha]

Tcf is my favorite webnovel ever. Always on top. Never will change. Going 3 years down this rodeo not planing on backing out now. Literally my emotional support

But I cannot for the life of me tell you what the plot is about. Like look man it's complicated. Things just started hapening. And continued to happen. And quite frankly haven't stopped happening yet.

Like this novel has every single genre you'll ever find in any media!!!!! (besides romance but it's there if you squint really hard)

I can't summarise it. "Dude from korea transmigrated into this novel he read and tries to avoid getting beaten by the og mc" LIKE HOW DO I EXPLAIN AFTER THAT HOW THIS MAN IS LITERALLY THE LEADING MILITARY AND ECONOMIC POWER IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!?!?!

Even that short description is innacurate because 1) Kim Rok Soo is not just some dude 2)This is not even a novel world 3) Choi Han isn't actually an og mc 4) it's not even transmigration it's soul swaping!!

There are so many elements in the plot that I can't describe it man. They're all jumbled up in my head because SO MANY THINGS have happen!! So many wars! So many scams! So much world building! So many plot twists! So much stuff!!

All I can tell you is that 99.999% of the time it's all Cale's fault. He brings this doomed overworked fate upon himself.

The vibes of TCF are immaculate tho✨️. Truly unmatched

[weeb-polls-with-pip]

Finally played my Anime Family Feud game with my Discord friends, so now I can reveal the long-awaited results for those who were curious!

*(Top eight answers for each survey question, aka the ones that made it on the game board. For answers that had the same number of responses, I arranged them alphabetically to decide which to include on the board).

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Bonus answers from the 'Fast Money' rounds of the two games.

The 'Fast Money' prompts were:

What is the most iconic anime catchphrase?

Name the most overhyped anime ability.

Give me the most iconic anime opening song.

What popular 'waifu' or 'husbando' would actually make a good partner?

Name a side character who added nothing to the plot.

All in all, this was very fun to make and subject my weeb friends to! We all had a great time. :)

[jade-efflorescence]

a powerpoint based on my two current obsessions. this was so fun to make, thanks for hosting this event!

[sharoscylla]

They are watching Raph, Leo, and Mikey give a PowerPoint presentation on why they as a family deserve and need a Nintendo Switch. Tbh Splinter was going to say yes as soon as they asked for it because he didn’t know it was a thing they would want but he’s always very interested in seeing a PowerPoint presentation so he’s just gonna watch the whole thing. Donnie doesn’t have any decision making responsibilities here he’s just Daddy’s Lil Copycat.

[raointean]

I made a PowerPoint for the English club at my school and I thought y'all might appreciate it.

Art of Dior and Nimloth is by Jenny Dolfen.

Art of Celebrian is by Veronnikka of Deviantart and posted on tumblr by @elf-esteem who might be the same person? Idk

[contemplationofapoint]

01.14.25 Face In The Family Gathering Crowd

[hauntedjohnny]

[delphiniumjoy]

When you have to stop yourself from reclaiming the word queer in conversation because you're not out to them

[voided-selfships]

I might need to remove Angel from my f/o list