#i mean don't get me wrong

[hellameyers]

Only took a third watch for it to really hit me. But Louis completely missed Lestat throwing himself on the sword during the trial. He admitted to willingly breaking the second vampire law, and that if they're going to put Louis, Claudia, and Madeleine on trial, he should be tried with them.

Lestat knew the coven wouldn't harm him. He was trying to save them. That was why he came. Not for revenge, as Louis thought, as all the vampires there thought. He came to find a way to save them. But Louis was too caught up in recalling his spotty memories that he didn't notice it. Like much of their relationship, Louis wasn't really listening to Lestat.

I know it had to be this way for the narrative, but... Damn I just made myself sad.

[kalinara]

(All-New X-Men #6)

I've kind of blogged something about this before but I never get tired of seeing posts about Logan/Scott/Jean as a throuple (I will literally die of spite before I use a portmanteau) that talk about them as two godlike, immortal beings and "just some guy".

Because on some level, of course, it's absolutely true. Jean is the living embodiment of a Universal Cosmic Force. She can sneeze and wipe out entire star systems.

And Logan is basically immortal. There are a good number of timelines that go forward hundreds, if not thousands of years (see: Powers of X in the Krakoa era) that still show Logan at the prime of his life, always fighting and surviving.

Scott, is, by that standard, just some guy. He's got lasers coming out of his eyes, which is kind of cool admittedly. You could do some interesting analysis on the fact that they seem to be infinite - the only time we see them give out is when HE gives out. Or doesn't get enough sunlight or whatever. But for practical purposes, they've got one real use, the guy's just a very decorative portable cannon.

But what makes Scott special, and on level with the other two, isn't what he is, but what he does.

This is a dude who's led the X-Men since he was a teenager. And as a teenager once talked an entire fleet of Sentinels into attacking the goddamn sun.

This is a dude who co-led a guerilla war against Apocalypse in the future for 10-12 years (admittedly with his goddess wife), then came back as though nothing happened.

He's also the reason for his own last name, because in ANOTHER time traveling bout with the goddess wife, he managed to inspire his own orphaned ancestor to take the name "Summers" in his and Jean's honor.

This is a dude who got possessed by Apocalypse, and repressed him to the point of amnesia, got a sliver of the Void stuck in his head, and repressed that too. Even Phoenix possession took a while to shake that guy.

This is a dude who became the "Boy King of Utopia", uniting the entirety of the mutant race under one banner. Magneto KNELT to him and named him Caesar.

There's also that time he stared down Dracula. Was it a bluff? Dracula thinks so. But he still backed the fuck down. And for a brief period of time, even Namor followed this guy's lead. NAMOR.

This is a dude who, after becoming possessed and ostracized, led a "mutant revolution", becoming a household name among bitter college students everywhere.

He's the kangaroo trial symbol of the entire mutant race, sentenced to death, and his only response is a call to arms published through his lawyer, She-Hulk.

This is a man who's slept with Jean Grey, the Phoenix (back when they were considered separate entities), the Goblin Queen, Emma Frost, and Frenzy, and every single one came back wanting to fuck him again.

Speaking of Frenzy? That dude's sub game redeemed a fucking acolyte!

"God took less time than that to make the world!". Okay, take a fucking breath, Joanna. (X-Men Legacy #248)

His kids are practically gods in their own right, and he was only involved in the conception of one of them. The others just kind of showed up one day with a DNA test and got invited in for dinner.

The closest thing he has to a hobby is plotting how to kill dinosaurs:

(Uncanny X-Men #495 - and he's fought a LOT of dinosaurs.

Sinister's been obsessed with this man's DNA for years, and yeah, if you're just looking at it in terms of powers, it doesn't make a lot of sense. There are much more powerful mutants out there after all. But when you start thinking about the rest of this, yeah, I kind of want to put him in a petrie dish too.

Heck, he's even argued with the narrator! In another timeline, he could have become an incredibly boring variation of Deadpool!

(Uncanny X-Men #96).

I'm just saying, yes, by one point of view the Moon Throuple is two godlike immortal beings and dude who is "just some guy".

But on the other hand, if you had a chance to fuck the unholy combination of Mr. Rogers, Alexander the Great, and the Death Star wouldn't you?

[bookholichany]

I mean as someone who grew up watching Stephen Salvatore being shown as a highschooler on a weekly basis for years and watch Cullens on the screen in highschool, I actually find it quite easy to accept Charles, Edwin, Crystal and Niko as highschoolers. Like they're literally babies in comparison.

[lordgroose]

now that i've changed my hair from blue to red, i feel like it's time to buzz my undercut

i always get so nervous doing that though, cause i feel like i'm gonna reeeeally jack it up doing it on my own lmao

[aura951]

UNDERTALE LORE IN THE GRAND YEAR OF 2024?????

[chrismerle]

GUESS WHO BROKE A FILLING AND NEEDS TO WAKE UP AT ASS'O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING TOMORROW TO GUARANTEE I'M ONE OF THE FIRST THREE WALK-INS AT THE DENTIST

[glimblshanks]

Gods, the whole Redditors self-inserting as Boimler thing is probably why some of them are so adverse to the idea of Boimler being queer, even though Mike McMahan said that everyone is "baseline bisexual" (also some of them said T'Lyndi should just be friends, but the same logic also applies to their m/f T'Lyn ship). I also wonder if they think Boimler being queer is "weak" or "unmanly" to them, and thus, feel personally attacked when people headcanon him as bisexual.

Yeah, I try not to psychoanalyze strangers on the internet too much - and gods know, I have certainly projected onto characters in ways that were actively counter to their canon personalities, so I don't want to judge to harshly - but it does seem like some of the folks who project onto Boimler (especially on Reddit) do so in a way that perpetuates sexism and homophobia, and it's not great.

[jyndor]

okay obviously i voted rogue one out of loyalty but empire strikes back is the best star war lol like esb definitely deserved to win

[english-mace]

some weeks I miss del.icio.us's popular-by-tag page more than most

[operahousebookworm]

Revisiting Kingdom Hearts, it's clear that so much of Xehanort's bullshit could have been prevented if Eraqus had managed to give his large adult son a hug and tell him good job once in a while

[takingontheworldtogether]

briefly got over the fact that drama queen isn't on speak now tv, then remembered that haunted (acoustic) is also not on speak now tv, and now i'm back in the pits of despair

[thestalwartheart]

So for this year's Fest I'm diving back into the world of classic Bond films with one of my projects and OH MAN has it been fun. Sometimes I forget Bond can just be a silly guy who likes going places. I need to do a rewatch of the older films more often.

[makingstrangemaneuvers]

my dad has always been a chronic undersharer, except for the handful of (still vaguely fucked up) stories he decided were good lessons to tell us about growing up.

but the last handful of years, he's been going through a lot - a cancer diagnosis and the subsequent hellish treatments, a job that pays him pennies but works him harder than anybody else in the family has to work, his mother going through dementia and various strokes, etc. and with that, he's suddenly stopped keeping all of his trauma locked away, and now drops random pieces of lore that leave us all going oh my god????? that genuinely happened to you?!?!?!?!?!?!

again - i AM glad we weren't super aware of just how much he went through while we were kids, BUT finding it out now is a little disorienting and shocking, because it's like we're constantly having to recontextualize memories and patterns and such.

Yes it’s good for your parents to not dump all of their problems on you as a kid but the flip side of that is you get random terrifying lore about them at the most unexpected of times as an adult

[egophiliac]

can't believe that skeleman has turned on us, and Halloween Prom is tomorrow.

(what a top-tier UM...we are about to be just totally obliterated in the absolute silliest way. what possible use could this power have outside of bringing us to the brink of utter holiday disaster.)

[brainrotcharacters]

the easy grip on the knife. the leg over the seat. the hand over the other seat. the sassy "come get it" move. you know the bitch is smiling behind that mask even as he said the line.

[pacificwaternymph]

Did you guys know that Duke's tag on Ao3 only has 7,000 fics? Because I didn't.