#i will yap

[glytchedmuffins]

If I had a nickel for every character dynamic in Honkai Star Rail that consisted of a man shrouded in mystery with daggers doing shady questionable stuff behind the scenes and a doctor who gives their very soul and being to cure their patients, I would have 2 nickels.

Which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice.

I am talking about Moze & Jiaoqiu and Sampo & Natasha, btw.

[boxbugdotcom]

The hc/life series au in my brain are rotating at top speed these blorbos are driving me insane

[purplepixel]

I've sat on s11 long enough. Yes, I finished it. Yes, I'm procrastinating watching s12. But I've had a lot of thoughts towards the last couple episodes of s11 and how they wrapped everything up. A lot of thoughts...

For starters, I can't help but feel the last episode went TOO FAST. The 11min run time finally doing them in. I was begging them to sit on a couple more scenes instead of speed running through it. Flashback to s10's last episode which also had an incredibly RUSHED ending so I hope this isn't the future.

Me when its kai that almost gets zane to remember :0 Nice narratively since these two had more of a focus at the beginning of the fire chapter so I liked that they tied it back this way. I can't believe that they brought up the pink ninja thing. It's a nice season 1 callback and is a reminder to ME PERSONALLY that they still care and remember the earlier seasons. I'm aware this show has been going on for a long time at this point so I appreciate this kind of thing.

On the topic of Zane and Lloyd, there's something to be said about Lloyd being the one to go find Zane and try to get him to remember. The two lone wolf characters. They're underrated to me and I'm not sure how many people have picked up on the similarities (while also being incredibly different) that these two have.

If I had a nickel for every doomed ship lloyd gets, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice. Ninjago writers are arguably better at writing lloyd's ships then the established ones which no im not salty about why do you ask???

Speaking of which, finally some jaya crumbs. For a ship that's canon yall get nothing I swear. I love that despite nya being a badass she was shooketh after taking out the ice dragon with the land bounty. And jay being like "you can let go now" was really cute. I love Jay being an asshole but equally important I love him being a sweetheart. The duality of man. And then Nya looking for reassurance in jay. PLEASE. SEE YOU CAN WRITE AN ESTABLISHED SHIP ALL YOU NEED IS MEANINGFUL CUTE MOMENTS LIKE THIS AND---*gets dragged away*

ok ok SORRY. Ninjago writers really have no idea what to do with jaya half the time when they dont have relationship drama. It should not be this hard...why do they struggle.

I really liked this fight scene vs the ice dragon in general. Kai regaining his fire was epic. Nya protecting her brother. HECK YES FINALLY NYA RETURNING THE FAVOR HAHAH. They both had similar arcs this season and THE THING THAT GOT THEM TO OVERCOME THEIR STRUGGLE WAS WHEN THEY WERE PROTECTING EACH OTHER WAAAAH.

Jay: Nya! You did it!! Cole: HAHAHA I knew you could do it!!

...now wait damn minute, cole. Oh also fricking. I love these three. Brotp...3? Bro3p? Anyways this trio <3333 (kai in the bg: do i look like a fucking joke to you?)

I still have a lot of questions on Nya being able to control ice tho. If its simply the fact she's able to control it by changing the physical property of ice to water then I'll buy it. But I better not see Nya manipulating ice. That feels....wrong. Like she's a badass but Zane is the ice ninja.

Man ok...Zane....(rant incoming sorry)

Its getting a little annoying how often Zane is written out of the plot. I wouldn't have minded much this season if it was a one time thing but...we already saw this with season 4. And then s5+ they found so many ways to just write him out of the narrative that its kind of a crime now and its PAINFULLY OBVIOUS WHEN THEY DO IT. I was so hyped during the fire chapter bc FINALLY he was getting something to do that was meaningful to the main plot. And then he's fridged. Again. I think I understand why Zane fans are so loud. He's done so dirty by the narrative. Unlike the other characters who the writers hurt and then give an emotional payoff, there is a severe lack of that with Zane. Its never about HIM. When they hurt Zane the focus is on how the other characters feel. It's grating on me. I know he's a nindroid but bro still has feelings huh??? What happened to how you wrote him in seasons 1-3?????

All I'll say is that they better continue his arc in the next season. How they handled zane in the final episode was the main reason it felt rushed to me. I was not satisfied with the closure to that. It wrapped up and ??? ok...so are we just going to ignore everything? We're just gonna quickly move on? Having Nya figure out that Zane was the ice emperor before even entering the fortress was a cheap way to ignore that character drama of everyone finding out mid battle. Like I get they were lacking in time, but uggghhhhhhhHHHH please the main conflict of the whole season GOT UNDERHANDED????

They literally sacrificed anything more with Zane to close off Lloyd and Akita and Cole and Krag. Which ok. They're never gonna see these two again, so I'm glad that they gave the appropriate amount of time and love for this send off.

Hold on lemme just. No. NOO. IM WEAK FOR CHARACTERS SAYING GOODBYE THROUGH PORTALS AAAAAAAAAAAA. Man wth. These two only had what 5 episodes? But Im too attached to them. The writers are afraid to write zane but they're not afraid to write cole. I swear he gets so many little subplots that are meaningful to his character.

Like mmm. My heart breaking over this scene. The internal dread of realizing that your effort to fix a situation was for nothing, I felt that in my fucking soul. BUT THIS DOES BRING UP AN INTERESTING THING.

Cole losing the traveler's tea did not matter in the end. In fact, if he didn't lose the tea those 2 npc's (who are so married fight me) would be dead, Krag would still be lonely and not find a new family, the berry that actually would get them home would not have been found. Like. HUH??? Bob ross there are no mistakes just happy accident moments, WHAT. Part of me does want to be like, oh so you backtracked on the consequences of actions, but hmmm. I dont mind this, it wasn't his fault that he lost the traveler's tea in the first place. Cole just took it upon himself to blame himself fix their situation. BUT CONTRASTING THIS WITH WU??

I love you Wu, but you're the whole reason everyone is in this mess to begin with. His action with aspheera WAS a choice he made, and he CHOSE to push the ninja that set the plot in motion, HOWEVER, unlike Cole the choice to fix his mistakes is taken away from him. And...idk how I feel about that. Wu is interesting cuz he does make an effort to want to fix everything he's responsible for. But the narrative and ninja don't allow him to. I feel they tried to wrap up his arc in the Kaiju Protocol episode, but Wu forgiving Pixal indivertibly felt like he was accepting that he should let other people deal with his mess. Was it the right call for the ninja to go to the never realm and not him? Ya maybe. But from a character arc perspective it feels like the lesson here was "let the ninja fix your mistakes". Cuz unlike Cole, Wu does NOTHING that actually helps fixes the situation. maybe that was the point??? i just don't particularly like that message's implication

Just an interesting thought I picked up on that has me wondering what the writers were trying to say with this. Accidental mistake = no consequences vs bad choices = severe consequences. But the former is allowed to "fix" it and the latter has to let others pick up the slack? Hmm. Food for thought. Or maybe im reading too much into it

Having said that, crying over this reunion.

But ya, long extended thoughts on the ending of season 11. And I didn't go off on the never realm paradox rant once. *forced smile*

[candlecordyceps]

Delicious in Dungeon and GRABBING ME BY THE THROAT WITH FALIN FRAMES!!! I WILL BE YAPPING TOMORROW ONCE I FINISH MY HOMEWORK MARK MY WORDS!!!

[eliashirsch]

listen listen listen I'm having my second top gun phase and i've just made a collection of the BEST OF THE BEST fics i've read in the fandom (tbh i might've still missed some) so i want to SHOUT ABOUT HOW GREAT THEY ARE. bear with me.

these authors' stories deserve all the love!!! i just want to know which format is most preferred:)

either way i will gush about these fics because a lot of them have directly influenced my work and have encouraged me to be better in writing, so they actually have changed my life so much:)))

[ps. these fics range from gen to explicit, from icemav to hangster and even some that have no romantic ships. i have them all in an easter basket and my easter bunny costume is so ready]

[jellysshitpoems]

Thoughts on the Chernobyl HBO miniseries (assuming you’ve watched it)? I really enjoyed it but I’ve heard that some big parts of it were inaccurate

Sorry this took awhile to get to I had classes all day

I really liked the show, a lot of it was fairly accurate, but it’s a tv show so of course some things were played up for dramas sake and shock value. The only part of it that really stuck out to me was the way they portrayed radiation poisoning, it’s not completely false I suppose… but its definitely not accurate lmao

It’s been awhile since I watched it, I prefer actual documentaries when it comes to real stories, but from what I remember they showed the firefighters skin as like translucent almost??? Which isn’t how that works. They also showed in one of the scenes a power plant worker bleeding immediately after holding a door open to which also isn’t accurate. Radiation sickness technically can cause bleeding like that, but it was way too soon for it to be happening. I could go on, but radiation sickness isn’t the most fun topic

The only thing I specifically disliked about the show was the public response, which isn’t really the fault of the creators. The amount of tourists doing stupid shit in the exclusion zone/Pripyat just makes me cringe. People moving untouched items, painting radioactive things ‘fun’ colours for cool photo ops, taking radioactive materials as souvenirs… awful. I even remember this one ‘sexy’ photo in a decontamination suit posted on instagram that was taken in the middle of the city. Its disrespectful. Not to mention A HEALTH HAZARD. But Chernobyl tourism is a different topic entirely.

Buy yeah, thinking back to the show radiation sickness is the only inaccuracy I can really remember, other then the miners getting naked in the tunnels, that didn’t happen, but it was funny so Ill give them that!

[hergrandplan]

the urge to yap about this story and post snippets while also wanting to keep everything under wraps is alsjkdgkdslagjlk.

[juliets-roller-derby-awesomeness]

i swear to you, one of these days when im not jet lagged or sleep deprived or otherwise burnt out im gonna write so much about the shules breakup just you wait

[ghostpebble]

i will wait until after my shift today and then the sonic movie floodgates are opening

[aiko-the-weapons-robot]

I kinda want questions about my Persona/OC so if you wanna....

(Obviously, she's alive during all the other characters unlike my OCs)

[bananaballs21]

Guys stop using Ai ! I will say the most weird things for you. Not only are my brain rot paragraphs from my human brain but free. I am the most collection of the world and it has beyond my knowledge of my interests. I will hand write them for your price of mind. I am beautiful trust🙏

[kaboomthepossum]

Hey bestie, once you get this, you have to say five things you like about yourself, publicly. Then you have to send this to ten of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool~)

Thanks for the ask! It took me a while to think of some things lol, but here goes

1. I am visually impaired! I have albinism which has caused me to have nystagmus, photophobia, astigmatism and other eye problems - this is something I used to be super self-conscious about and really dislike, but I’ve come to realise that it’s part of who I am and I like that I am able to accept it

2. I really like my drawings. I have come a long way in my artistic journey, and have been drawing since I was really young. I like how far I’ve come, how much I’ve improved and how I still enjoy making artwork that can make myself and other people happy. I like the fact that I’m no longer at a stage where I feel disappointed with whatever I create, and instead feel proud when I see the finished product

3. I love my ability to remember song lyrics - seriously, ask me to recite any mountain goats song and I will be able to do it. I can remember lyrics after only listening to a song once or twice, even when it’s pretty long

4. I like my ability to just YAP for hours about whatever I find interesting. I do this relentlessly and I am impressed at my own ability to continuously just talk without needing breaks. (and yeah sure, everybody’s got their limits, but, thus far, nobody’s found mine). I know this can be annoying to everyone else, but I greatly enjoy talking obsessively about my interests

5. I like the fact that, however much I procrastinate, which is an awful lot I must say, I get stuff done when I need to (most of the time)

Thank you so much @melpomene-grey for the ask, this honestly just made me feel really happy.

I apologise that this was so long (I really didn’t lie about the relentless yapping thing)

[angel-fruitcake]

i can handle one (1) Event™ per day. whether it be a phone call, an appointment, trip to the grocery store, play date with a friend, etc. only one, that's it. any more than that and i am Stressed

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LESBIANS: 2x08 - “Killing is a Cycle”

[taxideermied]

I hate 2 say it but being a part of a “weird” subculture does not meaningfully inoculate you against a conservative moralizing impulse. You gotta unlearn that. Saying “cringe is dead” is not enough, you have to actually be okay with things that discomfort, perplex and/or disgust you.