#have an OPEN MIND

[kinxrd]

Not about anything specifically but I'm begging people to understand that changing a character's past actions due to newly discovered information is like,,,, a totally ok thing to do. You can reevaluate why someone did something with a new context, do you know that. Its important to me that you know that.

(Yes this is about Tommy btw)

Was Tommy being gay and having some fucked-up father-figure relationship with Gerard ever planned in s2? No, not even close. Does the knowledge of him being in the closet now change how we see his behaviour from s2? Yes, yes it does !!

And that's not a bad thing. Saying "hey, maybe this one-dimensional asshole character was more complex than we thought, and now he has reasons for being the way he is," is ok to say !! It is !! You don't have to live in the past pookie I need you to be ok with retcons and unintentional expansion of characters, please.

You don't even have to LIKE it, just understand that those motivations/dynamics have indeed changed its not that hard

[foe-of-fate]

I feel so bad for people who say they hate vegan food 😔 Imagine hating French fries? Or fruit smoothies? Or pasta? Or peanut butter? Or—

[absenceisaformofwinter]

"The will to change belongs to intelligent people. The unconscious governs our lives, and the unconscious is shaped by our beliefs, many of which are false, even though we present them as true. Having an attitude of openness towards everything puts us in a better position to continue growing."

Keynes: "The most difficult thing in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to forget the old ones."

Goethe: "Beware of what you learn, for you cannot unsee it. Being open to 'unlearning' is absolutely essential for true learning to take place. Often, what we think we know is what actually prevents us from learning."

Bertrand A. W. Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, logician, and writer, Nobel Prize in Literature.

[weissflower]

dragon age the veilguard is fun actually :)

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[shellem15]

Can I just say, I really appreciate how Critical Role plays the Devil trope straight. There's been this phenomena in a lot of modern media (I'm not going to mention specifics but I'm sure a few examples pop up in people's minds) where Hell and the Devil aren't scary or malevolent forces. Hell is portrayed as being basically the same as our world just "edgier", and the Devil is a pretty decent guy actually. Heaven are secretly the real bad guys!

But Critical Role doesn't do that. In Exandria, Asmodeus *feels* like the Devil. He's malevolent and manipulative and terrifyingly powerful and he hates you, personally. We never see that type of portrayal anymore! And it's amazing! And he still manages to be sympathetic and tragic without losing his edge!

And the "Good Gods" are portrayed as flawed without being secretly evil or something! Like, actual nuance? In my Heaven/Hell dichotomy? What!?

It's just such a breath of fresh air after so many "The Devil was right, actually" stories. So props to Matt and Brennan and the cast.

[cracklewink]

Harmony Syndrome Part 5/5

The last chapter of my mlp infection AU! Thank you to everyone who followed along. Some final thoughts on my twitter @cracklewink if anyone's interested : )

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Ooh, you want to know what happens at the gay bar run by ex-pirates, ooh...You'll just have to read Tiger Tiger to find out...

(Inspired by this Disco Elysium comic)

[youchangedmedestiel]

Imo the best ending to Supernatural would have been to just stop with them alive on a random hunt or them finding jobs and living the life they just wanted or whatever.

And then the story just fucking STOP, because Chuck is not here anymore, so they are no longer part of a story they are finally free. And we could still write and read fanfic about how they live after they won.

[tiffanyachings]

Matching T-Shirts for You and Your Weirdly Codependent Cousin

based on this excellent post by @casgirl

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

[skateboardtotheheart]

there is just something about the difference between edwin's love interests and having the cat king's reaction to edwin in hell being "i'll be waiting when he gets back" vs charles "no version of this where i don't come get you" rowland convincing a powerful trans-dimensional being to open a door to hell just so he could get him back

i am insane

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

im a simple guy! i think about puppy Barnaby. i promptly explode into bloody heart-shaped confetti

[dangerdazee]

i'd like to add, as a less significant point but one that people still tend to bring up as an objection to henry in DF, his style change makes total sense.

he dressed mostly the same from age 13-18 in HD, which in itself is fairly unrealistic. it's more than logical that he would change his style after leaving home and moving to a place/culture entirely different than the one he grew up in.

he's grown up, he's on his own, he's been through a lot, and he lives in a completely different place.

the drastic change in his style makes sense and that's a hill i'm willing to die on!

people often say that it makes no sense how henry's changed in danger force, but imo i think it makes somewhat perfect sense (only somewhat because the writing in danger force is kinda all over the place most times lmao).

like henry is no longer this starry-eyed kid who thought superheroes were the coolest, strongest, snd bravest people ever. he's been there, done that, and it wasn't glamorous in the slightest.

swellview's greatest hero turned out to be an irresponsible, self-absorbed, man child (affectionate). he's almost died several times and has been injured just as much (and a lot of times, not even in villain fights, but at the man cave/junk n stuff). he even lost sight of who he truly was because he dedicated so much time to being a hero.

growing up with/through that and then going on to try and be a hero in dystopia? i absolutely think it makes sense that he'd become jaded and even more unlike the henry hart we knew throughout henry danger.

like yeah, the writing of HDF isn't the best all the times, but these little character development details they have is what hooked me into the show in the first place (besides it being genuinely enjoyable lmao).

[wistfulwatcher]

EMILY & HOTCH DANCING in 7.24 RUN

[cringefailvox]

alastor is such an insidious dealmaker because he's so reasonable. he doesn't ask for anything outlandish, especially not right out of the gate—he agrees to make a commercial so long as he's never asked to engage with anything tv-related again. he turns down charlie's soul and readily concedes to the stipulation that her favor doesn't have to hurt anyone. from the way husk describes their deal ("when you're down on your luck, you turn to anything to keep you afloat"), it heavily implies to me that husk went to alastor, not the other way around. alastor gets his foot in the door by making himself freely available, and by making it easy to tell him no the first dozen times he nonchalantly offers a deal, so by the time he starts angling for a deal he actually does want, you're less likely to notice immediately how predatory he's being, or how he's backed you into an inescapable corner. he makes himself an inevitability. you know he's a monster, you know that he's manipulating you—but he's also become your only choice, and so you don't even get the consolation of being able to say he tricked you, because you chose it