#hopefully you approve

[heynhay]

you know i got halfway through this before realizing i probably subconsciously ripped the concept from an old tumblr post sorry

[a2zillustration]

I pulled Gale out of camp one day just to check his approval and it turns out he thought I was the greatest person in the world so I love the implication that he had a stupid massive introvert crush on Croissant and they had no idea since he never did anything about it.

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[soulthesimmer]

[24hrsoda]

sorry i need to just scream abt bad things and evil thoughts

[dreadlordberri]

UM. EXCUSE ME LARION. DID YOU JUST MAKE MINTHARA RECRUITABLE IN A GOOD PLAY THROUGH????? See will I still make horrible war crime choices to romance her absolutely. But its nice to know that most of the people who wanted her with killing the teiflings can finally have her. EVERYONE GETS TO EXPERIANCE THE MINTHY

[sirguyofdykesborn]

can we have a lore rundown of ur ttrpg im SO invested.

im deeply sorry for making it look like it's the next critical role while it's actually just gay people playing dolls. lore rundown: corypheus or whatever his name is spelled like is dead and we're doing fuck all. mainly almost dying. well im also committing hatecrimes against the french

[comfortlesshurt]

brutally reminded that somewhere out there is a physical copy of an absolutely terrible detective conan genderbend au i wrote when i was like 12

i am not thriving today so here's a tag rant

[despairforme]

Easter, huh? He should probably go to church, but NAH, he wants to do something else...

[dragonmickie]

this frustrates me to no end because there isn't a "mages need freedom but need a education/schooling system as well". 1. suggests that they dont have anything to go off of but themselves, 3....... The chantry, and 6. doesnt have anything to add about how dangerous and morally reprehensible the circles were. but to show closest where i stand i'd have to pick the freedom answer.

like, if you fail a math test at school they dont shoot you for it. they dont take out your frontal lobe because youre bad at math.

[angelsaxis]

yeah idk i really dont have the patience for women w/ the means to not work who shit on women who are forced/to prefer working to not being totally financially dependent on one (1) singular man like if we think for a second about why a woman might want to be poor(er) but in control of her own money rather than "rich" at the behest of a man she's legally tied to do you think we'd get a semi decent explanation as to why a woman might choose option a rather than b 🥺

[nerdie-faerie]

Having a 9am class and an 8 hour shift the same day I have an assignment due so I haven't slept, is a recipe for disaster. Fingers crossed I don't bodily attack a customer 🤞

[coprolite-posting]

Thinking about that one "how the US would do a kaiju" post and. I feel like NOPE might count? Like, I've seen at least @/bogleech compare it to the genre, and i can see the similarities- Jean Jacket is a critter, decently big, and brings ruin- while generally existing as an allegory in such (but still being, textually, A Creature)*. But I'd feel gravely remiss not to specify it's specifically a "Black (US)American kaiju" rather than a "general (US)American" one, out of respect for the creator(s) and also just. The film itself. You could maybe do an essay- or at least a short diatribe- about comparing/contrasting the scale of the film's events with more common genre standards and come up with some statement about how if atrocities befall a sufficiently minority (or directly marginalized) subset of the population, structures of power don't tend to like. Care. But I'm probably not going to write it because I'm white, kind of stupid, and- most crucially- don't have any sources on hand beyond "just watch the movie haha." Also? I'm sure something along those lines has already been written somewhere, come on.

One thing maybe-original I can say about NOPE is that a lot of people seem to assume Jean Jacket is an Actual Alien, or at least describe it as such, when I don't remember that ever being confirmed one way or another in the film? I guess it could've come from a director interview or something somewhere. Personally, if that isn't the case, it seems weird to insist on such a thing, when a) a lot of the latter half of the movie is dedicated to subverting and deconstructing the tropey "UFO alien spaceship" buildup, and b) there are plenty of terrestrial animals that have some similarity to the creature design, if not we're direct inspirations; guys like jellyfish and sea angles and maybe even rays if you Absolutely Need a vertebrate example for some reason. Despite living in a pretty dry biome in the film, Jean Jacket is pretty "marine animal"-coded to me. Besides waiting for something to drift into your mouth, sucking shit up is just kind of the default eating strategy down there! I know for a fact there was intent to portray the species as having existed "alongside" humans for a very long time**; I don't think a terrestrial origin is particularly outlandish, especially considering a creature that a) seems to lack or almost lack hard parts, and b) disintegrates upon death (more or less, from what I recall), wouldn't fossilize well.

*I should specify that the discussion is more around the "Godzilla represents nuclear warfare"-type filmography than the "giant monsters are really cool" concept. Anyone can do the latter, and probably already has. Hollywood has Pacific Rim, which I guess with the aliens at the end, you could say something about fears of colonization befalling the imperial core in a sort of role-reversal scenario, but you can say that about a lot of Hollywood sci-fi and adjacent cinema. Maybe even most of it, to be honest. (...I haven't watched the second one, and I've heard it isn't as good.)

**I think the design/behavior and worldbuilding/character reactions imply this well enough on their own, but I believe there was also a snippet of an interview somewhere that mentioned something along those lines. Not necessarily part of the work itself, I suppose, but outside context can enrich interpretation.

[exagides]

I really should have just put a note on my blogs to say I'm on temporary hiatus but I'm hoping to be back online somewhere around July, cross your fingers for me

[dreamytfw]

I’m curious about the CAs being deans enabler like can you enlighten me on that because I honestly don’t think so would love to see your perspective on the situation

Ìf I wasn't on day 31 of a migraine I probably could explain in better detail. But as it stands it took me a solid 2 minutes of staring at your question going "what the fuck are the CAs??" before realizing your phone probably auto-corrected that from Cas and remembering the post I made about the topic. Best I can do for you in my current condition is saying Cas has a VERY bad case of internatlized "Dean is always right" syndrome and linking you to the wikipedia article on enabling. I'm so sorry I can't help you out further. Just know that being an enabler does NOT detract at all from being a victim of Dean's abuse. It just makes the angst and meta more delicious.