#i dunno guys

[glassrooibos]

Everything stays right where you left it huh guys

[mothwithpronouns]

no but seriously imagine it, fall out boy set at when we were young, bang the doldrums starts playing as mikey way walks on stage. And amazing Las Vegas sunset sets the mood

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

the state of things

[zeroslashsix]

The fact Garrus brought wine to his romance scene in ME2 is so funny, because he only brough ONE bottle. He’s dextro, Shepard is levo, so that wine can only be for one of them. If it’s for Shepard, I can only imagine him frantically googling “romantic human date ideas” right before the suicide mission, seeing “wine, candles, dinner, dancing???” and saying fuck it I don’t know which of these answers is correct, but alcohol is a universal language.

Or even funnier, if that wine is dextro, it means this man brought a whole ass bottle for himself. Like damn Garrus, I knew you were nervous but not that nervous. I have to headcanon that they didn’t drink the wine at all, because 1) they’re hours away from fighting the Collectors, and 2) how fucking awkward would it be for just one of them to be drinking right before they get dirty. 

[legobiwan]

Replaying some SPM to eventually get back into writing mode and the cut scene with Luigi in Bleck's Castle is SO INFORMATIVE.

The Goombas, Kevin and who I would like to call Gary, have his number, his checking account, and his home address in terms of manipulating him. The foreshadowing to the Mr. L persona is just delicious. That overblown ego tied with deep insecurity about not only his skills, but his comparison to his brother didn't come from nowhere, and it doesn't look like those issues weren't such a closely-kept secret in the Darklands.

"I was saving Princess Peach, but I screwed it up..."

And doesn't that just tug at the heart strings? You didn't screw it up, Luigi. You just happened to stomp on a trillions-of-years-old cosmic force of destruction and unleash chaos throughout the dimensions. Hell, he even put a wrench in Bleck's plans by doing that. Doomed by the narrative, our boy is.

"A daring defender? ...Me?"

He doubts their words (and well he should, not because they're necessarily untrue but meant to manipulate). But he both doesn't believe he's worthy of that appellation and yet desires it so badly.

"My fans need me!"

The commentary by Gary here spells it out. It was way too easy.

"Must...stroke...ego."

There it is, laid out for everyone. They know Luigi has overcompensation issues. The inversion of this, the low self-regard turned outwards - manifests in Mr. L.

The killing blow, so to speak. Gary and Kevin are acutely aware of Luigi's secondary status in relation to his brother. I wonder how many others caught onto this. No wonder Mr. L built Brobot. No wonder he's always calling out Mario's style. He may love his brother, but the insecurity is real.

In hindsight, there's nothing all that shocking about Luigi's transformation into Mr. L. It's all laid out right here in this beautiful cut scene.

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I remember once listening to the head pastor's wife preaching and I can't quite remember how she worded it but she said something to the effect of she could do anything, or if she could make just one thing go away, she'd erase all sexual sin, just make sexual sin go away

Like

Really? You wouldn't go after something like genocide?

[tatekane]

Bdubs and Etho out of context. Notice Bdubs is in chainmail again because Etho likes him more in it.

Bdubs: Yeah yeah yeah! Oh I know you can! I, I Know... I know that too much is uncomfortable Etho: mhmm Bdubs: Right? Etho: Uh.. I dunno what it is. (there's a cut here) Like, I like it when you do it Bdubs: Sure, yeah but it can be too much Etho (overlapping): I kinda...

[arabella-strange]

The problem is, there are two problems:

Problem #1: The Gods. They hold all the cards. They act like they're inevitable, immovable, and most important of all? Already here—they're a known danger. Literally the devil (and celestials and others) you know. But just because they are complex and flawed and powerful and pre-existing and far-reaching and far-knowing, does that mean we mortals of Exandria must accept their power regime forever? Can those under their domains not choose to strike out for a radical new future of unknowns—not even try? And yes, absolutely, they're good to us sometimes, they like or love us sometimes, they want what's "best" [according to them] for the world and the universe sometimes. But just because of those sometimes, just because things would change in unprecedented ways that might even be daunting or frightening or hard, does that fear mean we have to yield and submit to their fundamental prioritization of their continued dominance over us? Solution: unclear. Who gets to decide: also unclear.

Problem #2: Ludinus and Predathos. Ludinus has seized unilateral control. He has decided (as Orym pointed out) that he knows best, that "the ends justify the means." He has likewise decided (as Imogen pointed out) that what he wants and his judgment have achieved a level of rightness that must either be followed or be cut out of his way. If you're not with me, you're my enemy. Now, these two problems are intertwined at present because Ludinus is partly responding to Problem #1—namely, the injustice of living under what mortals must [he asserts] realize is not an inevitability or a necessary constant of the world. But he has turned in his campaign to solve this problem to Predathos, a total unknown, and Ludinus has gone so far down this path that he has convinced himself (or allowed himself to stop questioning) that his solution is the only right one. The absolute conviction without regard for harm, for alternatives, or for consequences makes him and this route a problem in its own right. Solution: unclear. Who gets to decide: also unclear.

*** But the thing I hope there is still time for? is a disentangling of these problems.*** Because Ludinus has warped the conversation so much, sooooo much, to make it seem like Problem #1 MUST be solved and it must be solved NOW, HIS way. But that's not true. If the Gods must be overthrown—if it is their time to become simply "the old gods"—then that deserves consideration. But he does not get to decide on behalf of the whole world that his way is the only way; there is no evidence that this is the only way and the only time and the only terms by which this important, maybe-uncertainly-possibly necessary step must be taken. But he benefits by making everyone think so.

[mx-giraffe]

Do you guys think that space and the stars work the same way in the Neighbourhood as they do here?

Cuz I started thinking about it, and now I can’t stop. Like okay so if it doesn’t work the same way, I can totally see Yuma just asking about the stars one day - cuz he watches them at night a lot while everyone else is asleep - and then Yuma is really curious about it, so Tamakoma gives Yuma like a telescope or a buncha audiobooks about it, so that he has something else to do while he watches the stars.

I just think that would be really cute 😭😭

[xxnessa-morgothxx]

I have a headcanon: Brother Nicodemus has a black cat called Archimedes and he nursed him since he was a stray kitty sneaking around the Monastery of Sasau. Now he is a big unit chunk.

[aaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbcccc]

Deadpool seems like a mitski kind of guy in his not so great moments

[dog-botherer]

I’m sure someone has said this before, but slipping through my fingers by ABBA incapsulates so much more than watching your child grow up. At various points in my life it has meant saying goodbye to the person I was, because at some point between now and then I changed. I used to feel like this about moving house, or changing schools, but then it became bigger, like who I was before covid and who I was before I realised I was trans. It’s not that they aren’t me, they are all the same person, but it’s that I didn’t appreciate certain stages of my life and aspects of my being a person until they had gone.

As a trans person, I feel like I am sometimes pushed into separating myself before and after I came out. But they are the same person, me now just has lived longer. Just because I am not my birth gender, does not mean I suddenly lose the experiences I had growing up as that gender. And although I am much happier living as a non binary person, that doesn’t mean I resent the time I spent as my birth gender. But I struggle with explaining that, even to other trans people in my life. As such, slipping through my fingers has become a proxy for explaining how I feel about myself and all the people I have been. That song and the eleventh doctor’s final speech.

[sewnwithfate]

why be different when you can be pretty?

[pyroshrooms]

What even is sleep really

[bear-cubs-art-things]

Sh

Should I post this one Gideon doodle I have

[hannibal-lectotype]

I love the “would you still love me if I was a worm” discussion in the context of hannigram.

Like, I imagine Hannibal would say yes. He believes he would love Will in any universe, any context, any circumstances. He would find and love Will, because even being understood by a worm is better than being alone.

And Will answers with a hearty “no ❤️” because he recognizes there were some specific ass circumstances that led to him loving Hannibal, and worms are fish bait. End of discussion.