#felt like there was no real conclusions

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

and that's that!!

[katyobsesses]

Sorry, but saying Tommy is the reason Buddie ain’t together is straight up taking Buck’s agency away from him. HE is the reason they aren’t together. Because Tommy is the one he likes and wanna be with rn

I meant in terms of the story, not in terms of the universe.

Yeah in the universe Buck has chosen Tommy to be with rn, he likes him and wants to be with him and I'm enjoying their dynamic (my problems with Lou's acting and some of his dialogue aside), but i do believe that storytelling wise Tommy is very much a stepping stone to Buddie. He's a midgame relationship for Buck to explore his sexuality, and find peace with that side of himself that he's never thought to explore before. and I like Tommy as that stepping stone, he's an interesting character.

Tommy as a character (not a a person in the 9-1-1 universe) is just there as a barrier and a stepping stone towards Buck's endgame, and that's okay, it's good. The show needs a reason for Buck to not go straight to Eddie after realising his sexuality, and I'm enjoying Tommy as that reason. but his character very much is a plot device.

It would be boring if Buck had just realised he was bi and launched straight into a relationship with Eddie, and that's not even discussing the Eddie side of things. (i.e. his catholic guilt being the reason he isn't going to buck... or even realising/accepting his sexuality)

I watch shows from a very analytical view point, I have a media studies degree and it's hard to switch off and honestly i don't want to. I like how i watch the shows i'm interested in. I like trying to figure out where the puzzle pieces will land, what the show runners are planning and the roles the characters have in the stories and arcs to push them to their conclusion.

Tommy and Buck are fictional characters they're plot devices they aren't real humans. so I can't take their agency away from them when discussing their stories, because they don't have agency, because they are puppets and dolls being played by the showrunners and writers.

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

this whole fear of repressed memories regarding sexual abuse has been following me around for years, probably since I became aware of memory loss/repressed trauma in the first place, but idk why it's been so intense this summer and it's really really frustrating how every time I think I've worked through it and gotten over it, I see a picture or someone says something and I'm all "I'M SCARED THAT THIS FAMILY MEMBER RAPED ME AS A KID AND I JUST CAN'T REMEMBER IT" and like. it's so frustrating because it's literally a symptom of OCD or whatever that I can't stop going over and over and over this, and it's driving me nuts that I can't seem to trust my own mind

[ace-and-ranty]

Wicked, the book, feels in theory like something I could really love. Unfortunately, I did read it, and I did not like it.

[loderlied]

i need you all to know that the main reason (besides a general hunger for attention) niles even accepts aldori’s call is because he got caught stealing his student’s work and passing it off as his own and his reputation as a teacher was obviously ruined. lmao

[basementcreation]

[crimeronan]

I TESTED POSITIVE FOR LUPUS ANTIBODIES

[britneyshakespeare]

10 words every girl wants to hear

"jared, you have been evicted from the big brother house."

[vaperarmand]

btw i had the haunting realization yesterday that saltburn is actually potentially supposed to be a social commentary of some kind but emerald fennell is just straight up so bad at doing social commentary in movies that i didn’t even notice. miraculously this does not stop it from being a five star movie to me

[imminent-danger-came]

I really am so sad I don't like isat. The themeing was very good

[vhs1988]

okay but why did jinx/ekko receive a more touching canonical love story than caitlyn/vi. i feel caitlyn/vi needed more things to happen to have their happy ending feel satisfying and now I’m left feeling like vi deserves better

[inklingofadream]

Just randomly remembered an incident in 5th grade where a sub mentioned she'd spent her summer in, like, the Caribbean. Somewhere that was extremely exotic to 10-year-olds. And I was like "oooh, jealous!" because... that's not the Best way to interact with a stranger but it one I'd seen modeled. Like that's a common response to someone talking about a cool vacation. Also, again, 10,

And she SNAPPED at me that no! she worked hard! to earn that vacation!!!11!!!

I would love to hear her side of that. Like... was there some serious personal life stuff that made her overreact? Did she really hate substitute teaching and was already in a bad mood? What was her logic behind yelling at ten-year-old me

Because I stand by my logic from then, once I'd calmed down enough to think about it- it doesn't matter if she worked hard for her vacation. I was ten. I could be the hardest-working ten-year-old on Earth, and it is still quite unlikely that a vacation would manifest itself. A vacation you bled to earn and a vacation handed to you on a silver platter are both equally unobtainable to a child who cannot buy plane tickets.

Like I get being annoyed if a peer said what I said, I acknowledge that that's a response you save for friends, not strangers... But I've done stuff teaching summer art classes for a few days, and while that's obviously a big leap from regular school subbing* not once was I tempted to raise my voice in anger. What is the end goal of yelling at a child, exactly? What was going on in her life that led her to that?

*(in some ways harder, since I was the one lesson planning and there were Many things that could go wrong and result in stains/injuries if my gang of 4-15 year old kids was supervised too lightly, but easier because literally every kid I've ever met would rather play with rhinestones than learn math and even the kids who were obnoxious I had to deal with for One week)

[andro-dino]

random hc time bc i started thinking thoughts again

Kyoya is usually very touch averse though is alright with physical affection on occasion, but he’d rather his partners ask before initiating it. I think all of them have their own ways of going about it.

Tsubasa and Hyoma will just ask him outright. Nile will silently offer his hand or smth and Kyoya responds equally silently by either nodding or shaking his head. Benkei sometimes has trouble remembering to ask first but his way of doing it is just giving Kyoya the biggest, saddest, wettest puppy dog eyes until he says something.

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

still thinking bout that ghosts finale and like look regardless whether you liked it or not, i think you have to agree that it was really fucking DUMB that alison and mike decided to move when they had a new born BABY lol

having a baby is already a stressful situation, and then you throw in The most stressful thing (moving house) into the mix i'm just like ????? that's so dumb that's so DUMB lol

[the-overanalyzer]

For the last few days I’ve been sending out summon signs for my level 166 for a few hours in the afternoon, and the breakdown of who’s seeking help at that level was kind of interesting.

For reference, a level 166 character with a maxed out weapon can be summoned by a character as low as 142 with a weapon level of +19 (+8 if their highest weapon is somber) and as high as 195. Mohgwyn Palace is excluded from the general summoning system due to both the disproportionately low level you can get there and the unique mechanic of the boss fight. Out of 50 summons:

By far the most common boss at this level range is Maliketh, with 16 calls. (I survived to the end of the fight four times. I am not good at fighting Maliketh as a sorcery build.)

The next most frequent boss was Radagon, with just 6 calls.

4 for the Fire Giant.

3 each for Godfrey Loux and Astel, Stars of Darkness

2 each for the Godskin Duo in Farum Azula, the Crucible Knight duo in Auriza Hero’s grave, and for Gideon.

1 each for Malenia, the Spiritcaller Godskins, Magma Wyrm Theodrix, Loretta of the Haligtree, Rykard, Radahn and what I’m assuming must have been a pretty high NG+ Godrick.

There were also summons at the start or midpoint of an area: 2 in Elphael, 2 in the Shunning Grounds, and 1 in Farum Azula.

[exuberantoctopus]

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