#i have OPINIONS okay

[intricatecakes]

new hobbs movie: bring Luke Hobbs back into the main storyline of fast n furious, showdown w Dante where Dante obvs gets away like the slippery lil fish he is, Deckard Shaw busting through a door w his mum and asking wtf Luke did to make such a mess, end credits

fast xi: Dom, Luke, and Deck mighty team up to take down Dante once and for all, Lil B calling deck Uncle Shaw and Queenie immediately turns around and asks him which one of his siblings this kid belongs to, lil bonding moment at the family barbeque where Luke steals someone else's seat so he can sit by Deck and swing an arm around his neck all faux friendly and ask him why he never called him back, end credits

hobbs & shaw 2: our fantastic duo back together to save the world again, intermixed with Sam being more of a major character who keeps pushing her dad to date, makes him a Tinder profile and then a Grindr one when that doesn't seem to work, Deck is messing w his phone and then Luke's phone makes the Grindr notification sound and everyone turns to look at him, Luke goes What and looks at his phone and does the eyebrow thing, end credits

hobbs & shaw 3: the mighty duo politely gritting their teeth at each other across a cute lil cafe table somewhere in france, insulting each other as per usual, Deck asks how Sam is doing and Luke snarks back that He'd Know if he ever had time to spend w her and before they can argue more ppl start shooting and they have to get to work, a whole movie of shenanigans later and they save the world ofc, someone shoots Luke's wallet and a picture of him and Sam falls out and he complains bc it's His Favourite, and when he unfolds it it's of him, Sam, and Deck, Deck promises to print him another one, Luke pretends to be surprised he has a copy, end credits

hobbs & shaw 4: big giant gay honeymoon interrupted by the world about to end agai-

[keirametzbrassknuckles]

The absurdity of going to museums so often that you end up with specific favorite menu items at the cafes on property

[kitticicl]

According to my sister, I make hot chocolate too rich. This is nonsense. There is no such thing as too rich hot chocolate.

[betawooper]

ok my thoughts on the orv official designs now that i can actually look at them

sun wukong has a mullet why does he look like that [sob]

oh fuck metatron has long hair umm, i dont think im gonna change my description of him in the au bc whatever

nirvana gnc af

oh ive been imagining dionysus with a pot belly this whole time, still gonna do that bc fat king

i was right the breaking the sky sword saint’s design is boring af, my imagined design for her is much better

oh fuck hayoung has short hair,,,, im gonna keep my imagined design for her though bc cringe (i will consider the blonde thing though)

mia has twin tails? thats so cute

kyrgios’s design is sick as fuck, probably the best and most interesting of anyone ive seen honestly

[gettingnowherefaster]

people are so braindead for this. Jack Sparrow was fun in the early movies but he was NEVER the best part. Kiera Knightly as Elizabeth Swan? Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa?? Bill Nighy as Davy Jones?? my god

my apparently hot take is a pirates comeback movie would be so fun if it has the same overall vibes and an all new cast. just give us fun characters and action sequences and hans zimmer and we're good

[3rdsday]

Tommy basically said "the DSMP was good because it was, and still is, loved" and that basically sums up my feelings on the matter too.

[blackout-galaxy]

The interesting thing is that some of these things aren’t just recent.

We’ve been doing botox and plastic surgery for a century or so, sure, but tattoos? piercings? Body modification, even?

we’ve been doing that for millions of years.

This is part of our physical legacy. For as long as humans have been humans, we’ve been changing our bodies to our desires and cultures, weaving stories and gathering around the hearth to share food and company.

Look, I love the "humans are space orcs" thing as much as the next person but can we talk about how humans will willingly put themselves through excruciating pain just for esthetic reasons?

Waxing, lipo, plastic surgery, Botox (let's not forgets it's a toxin), scarification, tattoos, piercings, etc.

Can we discuss how horrifying this would be to aliens?

[infamousmonkey-cat]

i actually think it’s so significant that disco elysium is named after an optional side quest. because the heart of the game is in the margins. same way you don’t get the real ending if you don’t do the (let’s face it, sometimes annoying and disincentivised) cryptozoologist quest line. you have to care about the world and its people, not just grinding through the mystery, to ever really understand anything. which is exactly what the game of suzerainty tells you IF you don’t try to “win”

[s4tj]

i dont draw humans like at all but this guy has been rotting my brain

[starwarjotta]

Day 3 - cloak thankfully Obi-Wan's robe cloak is big enough to wrap around a certain Commander who might've been tossed into the freezing river during a mission oh and when there's a chance to make something even more Codywan? ofc I'll do it, here's a bonus

it was a long mission, okay

[egophiliac]

(breathing into a paper bag) FRALIO....

can't believe they gave us another guy. oh my god. so I guess Kelka is more, uhhh, more OOO then, and Fralio is Ankh? not that it matters too much, although they do seem to be doing something with the connected Riders so. who knows. anything goes! or if I may, anything gOOOes! god. of course they're the Ambition parallel. of course they are. oh my god.

fortunately there's nothing else they can throw at me right now that could possibly --

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[cable-salamdr]

Geo stuff because I miss him and I’m salty about a lack of backstory so I’m putting him through my own backstory regiment instead: Misery

+ A vague timeline because I realized maybe making a solid ref for myself is… not that bad of an idea

- Geo’s hair getting dyed dark is like, to remove him from looking “too geckle” (I know that they don’t have hair shush) and they didn’t let him cut it because why would they?

- The reason why Geo is actually really strong is not only because of his genetics (the Munce side, I suppose) but also because he has literally been doing that for a long period of his life. I might make some more stuff that has to do with his backstory (and I’d love to hear what other people’s ideas are!!).

But the gist is. to me, Geo has come a long way to where he is when we actually first see him in DR.

[obsob]

making and weaving and loving! like we have done for millennia!!

[kitticicl]

I have a theory that the US education is designed to either:

1. Fail the majority of it's students

or

2. Make everyone who passes through the system a perfectionist

[bisquid]

He also ... Really didn't account for how 'take Britain, make Big' would affect things like, oh, latitude, and therefore local ecology. I also possess a deep and seething hatred for his going 'the seasons are Weird' without even paying lip service to how this would result in Interesting adaptations.

The Kingswood is canonically a large mixed woodland of broadleaved deciduous species like oak and beech, with a handful of evergreens - including fictional 'sentinel pines' which iirc also grow North of the wall. Irl temperate rainforests can have similar tree communities, more or less, although often (but not always) they are primarily coniferous. So far so plausible, right?

It's also between 30° and 40° North - approximately the same latitude as the Mediterranean. The line defining 'subtropics' from 'temperate'? 35°. Now, there are irl a handful of temperate rainforests at this latitude, so it's not impossible, but it does mean that the vast majority of the literature is based on rainforests in cooler climes.

Temperate rainforests also by definition experience significant seasonal temperature variation, which in turn dictates much of their ecological structure, and is one of the primary reasons they don't simply resemble cooler versions of tropical rainforests. Which the Kingswood... Doesn't. Not on any reasonable scale, anyway. So you have a temperate climate and a more-or-less temperate ecological community... With tropical seasonality.

This is basically impossible to research with any serious confidence - there is no literature studying a temperate rainforest community structure that does not also experience seasonality, particularly wrt wet and dry seasons - and is also incredibly unlikely to occur naturally. The existence of broadleaved deciduous trees in an environment as irregular as westeros is honestly questionable - things like leaf dropping and winter torpor are generally pretty dependent on being predictable, (which is incidentally one of the ways climate change is fucking up a lot of ecology) because, well. Otherwise it would be a crapshoot, adaptively speaking. Dropping all your leaves and essentially hibernating for what may end up being only a few months of winter? Unfortunate. Dropping all your leaves and hibernating for what may end up being such a long winter you run out of stored resources? Even more unfortunate.

That's not to say something like that couldn't evolve to deal with westerosi seasons, but it almost certainly wouldn't look like any tree we recognise from home.

Why does westeros even have years?? Why do people care?? Presumably they're defined by the stars, since seasons are not indicative, but the reason we on earth are so aware of the years is because of the seasons! Harvests have been crucial for most of modern human history, and are inextricably linked to seasonality and the year cycle. Damn near every culture I can think of north or south of the tropics has some form of midwinter festival! What's the point of that in a world where the seasons are entirely decoupled from the years?? (Honestly if anyone living in the tropics has a possible answer for this I am deeply interested, please let me know!)

Why does westeros have species that on earth migrate, and yet have no reason to on planetos? Or rather, they would have reason to migrate, but on a seemingly random timescale, and yet there's no indication that this has any effect on their reproductive pattern (99% of all migrations that I can think of are directly linked to breeding)!

Sorry

Rant over

How it started:

How it's going:

@systlin made the mistake of adding a couple of quick lines about overpopulation in the King's Landing Kingswood to A Crossing of Fires and then I compounded the issue by doing maths about it and now the entire rest of the fic has been derailed

[randomalistic]

Wait you guys are actually buying Disney products I thought it was a joke

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