#if she is idk maybe she'd be proud of her little criminal

[way-too-obsessed-gamer]

Thinking about Gideon's mom (respectfully). What was she like?? Why did she have a kid with some guy in Yona??? Why did she leave?? Did she choose to leave? Did she name Gideon or was that his father? If she saw Gideon right now would she care??? I'm obsessed with this genie with no plot relevance

[z-and-the-space-child]

my head is all currently midnight burger podcast so here's everything i like about this wonderful piece of media:

it's pretty fun and very funny!! i smile like an idiot on public transport and on my way to class at least once a day listening to this.

the characters are so. idk how to describe them but theyre so full of life and you can tell that they are loved greatly by the creator(s)

the WRITING. i could seriously pluck a quote from damn near every episode to carry me through the day. i don't need affirmations i need gloria to talk me through my problems.

i was doing a lil analysis of the themes in this show and i came up with "the best thing you can ever do is the best thing you can do right now" and it is FUEL, babey.

The el triste monologue. also just gloria being a POC and being proud of herself and her culture. there's a lot of cultural mish-mash in podcasts, so this is very refreshing.

It's very, very sweet and heartfelt. kind of like wolf 359 if they communicated more instead of dodging their issues until they came to a peak (love them for it.)

the PHYSICS of it all. i'm a physics/astrophysics major because i think space and looking at the stars is my lifeblood so i won't shut up about it. i don't want ava and leif (certainly ava) to shut up about it ever. HOW much reasearch did they have to do to get this kinda grasp on it. im in awe, i'm LEARNING actual things from them. i could go on. the gravity waves, the stellar nuclear fusion, the time dilation of it all. and all without using over-flowery language!!! i can actually follow a good chunk of the time. are we sure ava didn't take one of those science communication seminars. maybe 5 phds does it. when she and leif talk i vibrate like an electron in a lazer. wonderful.

star sequencing??? stellar nucleosequencing??? right up my alley. thats my kinda stuff. the romanticization of space, i've seen. the romanticization of physics, however, is not something i haven't seen in such a beautiful modern fashion. (Ie, not oppenheimer or even richard feyman)

and it's not too science-y to the point that they think they can't have fun. yes they discuss the implications of gravity waves and wax poetic about space and pulsars. (it beats for you, berts) but they have FUN! they meet their parents because they can. they get a plant drunk. there's an atmosphere(?????) around the diner that allows them to fly around and mind-numbing speeds and look at the curvature of spacetime and also sit on the roof. (I imagine the entire place is the temperature of a summer night.) they have a whole wild west planet. leif builds things inexplicably. how? where does he get the materials??? shhhhh don't question it just let him have the gravity wave detector. nobody actually knows what engineers do, not even engineers. let him be. also time crystals??????

ALSO ava being a woman in stem and being so blunt yet covert about it. she's been dealing with it for so long. why are all (recognized) physicists a)white b) men c) both. it's such a sucky thing to work into because of the outward appearance. ava is a proud mad scientist which i aspire to so much. i am keeping her in my little arsenal of people to think about when i don't want to study. (picture the do it for her meme but it's pics of ava) I don't think i aptly put how much i love her. i'm not all the way finished yet but i've heard she was forced to marry someone? i think it would be a thing for sure if she cheated on him. so many physicists cheated on their spouses (wives ): ) and i think ava should also do it. as a treat. if that's what she'd like.

when people have done bad, bad things but show/are capable of redemption upon reflecting on their past/current shortcomings is just something that gets me so much directly in the heart. the hiddenness of people. the tragedy. we contain MULTITUDES and this show demonstrates that so well. how they support each other! they are everchanging and that's good for them. Leif the engineer the ex criminal the diner cook.

leif exploding a man in cold blood. if i could draw i'd draw that. maybe i will anyways.

food as a form of affection/way to bond. grief. doing your best. making amends. using the time you have. death is inevitable but that's okay.

And if time and tide roil you too harshly, or diurnal courses leave you with no safe havens, just remember we’re out there, somewhere, lookin’ for ya’

they open at six

[bard-llama]

For the Ask Game: Best boy Gascon 🧢

I love the forethought in linking the ask game, because I 100% had forgotten I reblogged it. 😂 So thank you!

Warning: this is gonna be a long post. I'll probably stick a cut somewhere, but uh... I have lots to say about Gascon lmao

favorite thing about them

My boy is a CRIMINAL! And he's damn proud of it!

least favorite thing about them

I mean, my absolute least favorite thing is what CDPR thinks his age is. But in this house, we do not acknowledge CDPR's inability to draw young people.

favorite line

I'm torn between 3 and I'll tell you why. But under a cut lol

Gascon to Meve: Besides, I'll be right tickled to see the proud Queen Meve fighting elbow to elbow with a bandit she'd wished to hand just a half day afore...

I love this one because it's kind of what I love about Thronebreaker? Like, Meve is fighting to reclaim her home alongside bandits who she despised previously. It's a complicated dynamic and I love its potential.

Gascon to Meve: Hahaha... you're mad. How will you find the men? Riding from hamlet to hamlet, speaking atop a crate?

My immediate response to this proposal was YES THAT IS ABSOLUTLEY HOW MEVE SHOULD RALLY HER PEOPLE!!! So that will definitely happen in the future of The Taint of the Common Man. Aaaand tumblr won't let me hyperlink suddenly, so here's that link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/2591707

Video courtesy of @straysinfiltrator! Transcript:

Gascon: You've got to request it of me, m'lady. Courteously.

Meve: Never. I'd rather die in this cell.

Gascon: Steadfast as ever, even with death hanging over you. Color me impressed, I must admit. Eh... call it my loss then. You are free.

Meve: And grateful. Now please let me pass. I must get to the city jail at once.

Okay, so first off, seeing this dialogue the first time, this was my automatic choice and I was shocked later when I couldn't find video of it. It also inspired me for some stuff in The Taint of the Common Man, but what I actually really like is that like... Gascon DOES just... let her go. Because he's a little bit awestruck and also 'cause he's got plans, but like... idk, I like that about his character.

brOTP

Roche/Gascon all the way!

OTP

Meve/Reynard/Gascon for SURE. They're just perfect!

nOTP

I dunno that I have one, honestly. Idk maybe like Eyck/Gascon???

random headcanon

Ooooh, I have so many, how to choose? Um. Let's go with some ANGST. So, my hc is that (SPOILERS FOR GASCON'S BACKSTORY) when King Reginald's men went after the Brossards, they actually surrounded the estate and then attacked, killing everyone. Gascon only survived because, just as the attack began, a kitchen boy (who he may or may not have had a crush on) told him to hide.

Later, the same kitchen boy's body is found near his father's and Gascon knows that he must have pretended to be him to protect him.

unpopular opinion

Gascon makes an absolutely shit noble. It's not that he can't manage his land - he led the Strays for years, he can manage an estate. But the actual nobility part? Yeah, he doesn't even bother to try. He LIKES being the charming rogue, the irreverent criminal.

song i associate with them

Hmm. Okay, I can't think of one right now, BUT when I was driving to Phx recently, I listen to showtunes for the 2hr drive and sing along to keep from getting bored. And uh... Popular from Wicked is kinda Gascon 😂😂😂

favorite picture of them

LOOK AT THAT SMILE!!! It's so good! He's the goodest boy!!!