#has such horrific implications

[creative-clawmarks]

I saw this post by @polyhornet and something fucking possessed me.

I refuse to be normal about this, I need you all to consider the absolute poetry of kissing the tummy of a vampire that just drank your blood.

Like, do you understand, do you see the vision?

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KO-FI

[valorxdrive]

Luck thankfully found itself on Yusuke's side.

Or-- would it be a lack thereof? From Sora's end?

Sora found himself frozen as the town of eternal night frolicked with possibilities and melancholy. Stunned as that signature was undeniable in it's certainty, it's fragility. His mouth found itself going faintly agape as a figure managed to tear a more prominent shard of his attention. It led to a mindless advance as a harrowing thought pirouettes within his mind.

What does it mean for Yusuke to be here? In a land that once signified the demise of his own side of the stars? An anxious itch agitates his throat, yet the pace refuses to relent despite a couple of refugees giving the keybearer a greeting. It was strange to see that warrior locked with such a scale of concern.

Yusuke would find a hopefully familiar figure stepping up to him.

"T-- There's no way." Another figure would find themselves reflected upon a clothing store window. For now, a desperate hand of the mind found itself keeping those worrisome thoughts obstructed.

"How did you manage to find your way here? Did the Spirit World have a link--?" Reasons were now a thread of hope to reach for.

Traverse Town..a place he’s not even familiar with..however, once he looked at his reflection from the store’s window he was even more perplexed. The person staring right back at him was a stranger.  ❝  𝐈𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭..𝐦𝐞?   ❞  He asked softly, a hand gently touching his cheek. “If this is me..then..where am I?” The store was currently closed but the streets were bustling with activity..he’s wondering if walking into the crowd would lead him to someone that knows his face.

liked for an amnesia starter / @valorxdrive

[bumblingbabooshka]

It's obviously a diabolically infantilizing move by Lumon to make all the innies' manager a child but do we think it's also some sort of dig at Milchick? His computer's home screen still says 'Cobel' AND he has a child as his second in command and there's a moment near the end of the first episode where he seems to be terse with her, ordering her out of the room and closing the door when she tries to talk to him.

[gay-jesus-probably]

Seeing as the Gerudo turned on Ganon, he might not have been that much better of a ruler.

First of all, we literally have no idea, because the only ancient Gerudo that we actually get to interact with is Ganondorf himself, and he has nothing to say about his own people. The ancient Gerudo sage doesn't count btw, she doesn't have a name, we never even see her face, and she has literally nothing to say except repeating the exact same dialogue as the sages for the other races. The narrative does not treat the ancient sages as people; they are four completely interchangable weapons that are owned by the royal family.

And secondly, I don't care how Ganon ruled them; the Gerudo only get one man every century, if their king sucks, they've obviously got their own system of government to fall back on. I have no idea what kind of authority the sages had among their own people, but honestly I'd say if the four of them were in charge of their respective people, then they were just puppet rulers appointed by Rauru, given that all four of them happily agreed that to sell their entire race into servitude the second Zelda asked them. Say what you will about Ganondorf, but I fucking know that if he was told the Gerudo people existed for the sole purpose of serving the glory of Hyrule, he'd drop kick Zelda into the fucking sun.

And don't get me started on the implications of the cultural differences we see between the independent Gerudo and the annexed Gerudo. The background Gerudo characters all have their own models, and we can clearly see that the ones siding with Ganon have their own unique looks - for example, the amazing lady with the mohawk that summons the molduga swarm in that one flashback. And men are never mentioned in these flashbacks at all, which implies that the Gerudo genuinely didn't care about settling down. Ganon even speaks derisively about marriage, implying that it's very rare for Gerudo women to make serious romantic commitments with men. It implies that their culture is more along the same line as their portrayal in OOT - they are a closed culture. Men trying to force their way into their areas are arrested, and mocked for being entitled dumbasses. Outsiders are only welcome if they can prove that they respect the Gerudo as people, and aren't just there to try and pick up chicks. It's never outright said, but OOT also makes it pretty clear that the Gerudo women just aren't interested in marrying outsiders - close relationships occur with other Gerudo, Hylian men are only considered useful for making babies.

Meanwhile the Gerudo we see serving Hyrule are all trying to measure up to Hylian beauty standards, and appeal to their men. Their one goal in life is to meet a man and get married. Men are welcome in their lands, and only kept out of the town itself... and even then, there's a small army of guys trying to force their way into the town anyways, which is brushed off as just haha, boys will be boys. No men allowed isn't even about independence, it's just a silly romantic tradition.

Of course this is just a fictional culture in a game world, but it's still really fucking uncomfortable that the 'evil' Gerudo are the ones that have independence, both politically and socially, and display a unique culture that refuses to tolerate disrespect from outsiders. Meanwhile the 'good' Gerudo are the ones that canonically exist to serve a kingdom where 95% of the population is light skinned (even setting aside the unfortunate implications, just saying one race exists to serve a different one is super fucked up), they have classes on how to be more appealing to Hylian's, and their entire social structure is built around finding a Hylian man to marry, making them all inherently dependent on the goodwill of outsiders. Even their biggest value of 'women only' is treated as a joke; men trying to trespass in BOTW are just shoved back out the door, letting them keep trying all day if they want. The crowds of men plotting to force their way in are laughed off as a joke. Nobody cares that there's a guy running laps around their city walls and trying to trick women into being alone with him. I mean for fucks sake, in TOTK we find that the creepy guy trying to lure women away has taken advantage of a massive disaster to get into the town, and he's still there once things return to normal. You can't kick him out, or alert anyone to his presence. And the Gerudo just tolerate Hylians blatantly ignoring their boundaries. For fucks sake, TOTK even reveals that the seven legendary heroines they've been revering the whole time were actually completely useless and unable to achieve anything... because they needed the eighth hero, a Hylian man to teach them basic tactics and do all the heavy lifting.

TOTK does not respect the Gerudo people in the slightest. It doesn't respect anyone who isn't Hylian or Zonai.

...This got a little off track, but the point I'm trying to make is, no, I don't consider the Gerudo turning on Ganon to mean anything. The entire game does not feel like the real story of what happened, it feels like the propaganda version of history meant to make Hyrule look as good as possible. I genuinely cannot believe that we're being told the real story about the Imprisoning War, because none of it feels real, and we don't get to know any details that might have made Hyrule look even slightly imperfect. We're told that Ganondorf is evil because he hates Hyrule, and he hates Hyrule because he's evil. The Gerudo people followed Ganondorf and saw him as a hero of their people, then suddenly he was their worst enemy. Hyrule is a perfect kingdom that has strong, equal alliances with the other races, but also all of the non-Hylian races exist for the sole purpose of serving Hyrule, and their leaders are expected to swear eternal loyalty and submission to the Hylian royal family. King Rauru and Queen Sonia united all of the races in peace and equality, which is why they're sitting on the world's supply of magical nuclear missiles, and every member of the Hylian royal family is allowed to walk around wearing them as cute accessories, but everyone else only gets them at the last second, and they all need to outright swear to only use that power to benefit Rauru and his descendants.

There's just so many fucked up contradictions, and so many hints of something more nuanced going on... but the story refuses to acknowledge any of it, and just keeps aggressively pushing the narrative that Hyrule is the ultimate good and couldn't possibly do anything wrong. I don't even believe that Ganon was a bad king honestly; we never hear why his people stopped following him. We also never even see if the Gerudo people turned on him at all; all we know is the ancient Gerudo sage wanted him dead, and given that she also happily sold her people into slavery, she's not exactly the most trustworthy source of information. All we know is that Ganondorf was a hero to his people, only one of his citizens is ever shown having an issue with him (and her motives are never explained), and then he lost the war and was sealed away, leaving his people open to be conquered by Zelda and annexed into Hyrule. By the time we see any Gerudo actually opposing Ganon (apart from the ancient sage), it's been ten thousand years since the war, and all anyone knows is the Hylian version of the story.

[mllenugget]

I mean I’m just saying I’m surprised Baghera didn’t do a Baghera on this one

[randomalistic]

I watched Transformers One and it was SO GOOD WHAT THE FUCK??????? It was easily digestible even without previous knowledge of the series, (i just had to rewatch the intro to make sure I understood lol) but OH MY GOD IT DID NOT HOLD BACK THE ADULT THEMES LIKE ITS FUCKING BRUTAL IN SOME SPOTS. OOOHAHHAAHHAHHEEEHEHEE !!!!!!! VERY GOOD VERY FUN

You should watch it NOW‼️‼️ if you are a fan of Great Writing, Really cool worldbuilding , fucking stellar animation / character designs

and. Whatever is going on here 🫡

WARNING - to my toontown mutuals they say Cog in this movie a lot

[soath]

also now that last bit is up, i'll say it. i think asmodeus should take time out of his very busy day to try to zerxus-ify amaris. a beleaguered, confused now-widower who his everpatient sister loves so very much? who got to raise his sanctimonious brother from childhood, see him bright and unaware in a way none of them have been since the dawn of time? unacceptable. if you think about it, asmodeus has to torment him. if only to draw a line in the sand. mortals can't start thinking they can get away with that sort of behavior (loving the people he loves when he wasn't there).

[titus-androgynous-87]

Butch werewolf in the sense that for two weeks every March, I morph into an unrecognizable version of myself. Beamed straight into my body from some parallel existence where I’m a benign suburban dad and take an intense interest in the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments

The days leading up to the first round, I ravenously devour post-season stats, news, and analysis. I obsess for hours over creating a decent bracket and maintaining an official reference

I join a fucking OFFICE POOL and enter my bracket, sending a guy over in SEO a $5 Venmo for the 35-person pot

I get genuinely disappointed when I bust my bracket in the first round, but still enjoy watching how the rest of my predictions play out regardless

And then when I graciously accept my $5 loss that I kind of knew from the beginning was going to happen, I immediately and violently exorcise the ghost of Mitchell and return to my regular life of yelling about whatever media I’m into at the moment and trying to baby-coach my coworkers into understanding that when I say “Please use he/they when referring to me,” that doesn’t mean “exclusively use they/them, even when I use masculine terms to refer to myself in conversations and reassure you that he/him is preferable”

[kobochajunkbox]

Copypasta'd a charming quote I saw from the Mad Max game (2015) to search the source and-

[samsamurott]

Woahh he remembers. I like that he’s being *slightly* more patient with him since the jolly jolly secrets episode.

[mudstoneabyss]

worst pictures in existence but they were so lesbian married btw. gay as hell to keep a photo of yourself with a woman and her son on your desk

[libraryleopard]

Adult cozy fantasy novel

When an antisocial librarian flees a revolution and takes refuge in her childhood home, she begins to use the unsanctioned spellbooks rescued from the library to a secret spellshop disguised as a jam store

[review-anon]

(At least we ended it with a worm in Celeste’s dress)

//Well worms.

//But yeah Celes really did deserve that considering all the shit she’s done.

[titsthedamnseason]

GIBSIE was raped by mark? this whole time??? holy shit that actually brought me to tears. what the fuck.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

It has been 8 months and counting now, but every day I choose to be shocked and scandalized and rendered speechless by the utterly brutish, utterly horrific atrocities committed by Israel every single day. It should never become a new normal to know a whole country’s being genocided and to choose to distract ourselves w other things instead. It should never be standard to look at fundraisers of families suffering and choose to ignore them, to look the other way, to write them off as scams to alleviate any sort of guilt or gravity or moral implication that comes with ignoring these fundraisers. They should never ever be things we are okay with because it’s “just what Israel does now” “it’s just how people are” “it’s just racism.”

[creative-clawmarks]

I’ve been watching Danny Phantom and I get it. I get it now.

This show loves to make some offhanded comment, not a hint of consideration or concern in its tone, and just moves on without addressing it like that wasn’t the most creatively horrific concept this side of Nickelodeon. Shit makes up wackass lore on the spot and then disregards it immediately after, asks fascinating questions then looks at you funny when you try to answer them.

I now fully understand how this show has legions of fans dedicated to taking this somewhat mid cartoon and running so far with the implications of the premise they created an entirely different show that’s so much more interesting I’m upset it’s not real.