#imagine reddit if this happened lmao

[angelsdean]

don't know how people multi-fandom. dipped my toe into another one and immediately backed out bc everyone there was insufferable.

[slightly-sigilant]

[crossposting a comment I made on the Warframe subreddit because I think Tumblr would like it]

Part of why the Warframe 1999 update works, I think, is that nostalgia acts tend to lean on that cheap "hey remember those days when everything was great?" appeal, when the truth is that the world was still fucked up back then, you just didn't know better because you were a kid. (Specific flavors of shitty childhood aside.) But 1999... doesn't do that.

There's still nostalgia, there's the aesthetic and there's cheeky nods to 90s culture, but shit is fucked up. Even outside of the whole zombie-apocalypse-religious-fanatic-takeover hellscape that's overtaken Hollvania, a lot of Hex members are just… so dismayed to find out that the future is just as shitty as their present, if not more. Like, "what do you mean we haven't cured Alzheimer's and there was a caste of horrifically immoral god-kings whose reign was only ended by the child soldiers they mistreated, and centuries afterwards we still have capitalist cults and clone armies killing and enslaving people? We really hoped y'all would have figured this shit out by then?"

It's a very interesting deconstruction of the kind of optimism that you found during the IRL turn of the millenium. And despite how fantastical Warframe is, it hits home. Imagine time traveling back to IRL 1999 and telling them about all the shit that's gone down since.

[and some additional thoughts I sure had but didn't think reddit was ready for, lmao:

I feel like it's definitely intended that the Hex's dismay over the Shitty Space Future echoes the kind of dismay (to put it lightly) that a lot of people in the real, present-day world feel, and that the kind of dystopia happening in Hollvania is a reflection of the kind of dystopia happening in multiple places around the world right now. It was already pretty heavily implied that the Scaldra are Fantasy Fascists with their whole religious zeal and a *lot* of Viktor's dialogue towards the Hex, but this update turned the subtext up so much that it's basically text.

Like, just do the new Stage Defense mission. As a trans person in the US, I *instantly* recognized the kind of rhetoric that Viktor was slinging at Flare (a canonically nonbinary character, even!) Just swap the references to being a Protoframe with being any flavor of trans, nonbinary, or gender-nonconforming.

So, while the update is 90s in aesthetic, tonally, I'd say it's much more present-day.]

[beartitled]

Found your art through the STP Reddit and now I have a new TSPUD artist to enjoy!!! Your style is gorgeous :)

Reddit 🤨❔

I don’t have reddit

*sounds of paws tapping on the keyboard*

Aha repost with no permission I see? 🔍🐻‍❄️👓

This ask actually send me on a mini research lmao

I didn’t expect to see like 4 posts on Reddit with ppl posting my comics/sending a screenshot from ?Pinterest? and asking who the author is

That made me chuckle :'D

To be clear, I don’t really mind reposts if a person credits me

Always appreciate ppl askin permission 👍

For the reference: Reblog - a button that looks like this 🔄, shares a post on your page while showing the original author; Repost - when you screenshot/save someone’s art and post it on your page (ideally with credit, but if you’re a meanie you will just post images with no word about og author); Credit - a reference to the author «this art was made by [@author] on [this social media]». Sometimes see ppl mixing up terms 🫡

(Most of the time creators dislike reposts, bc it often leads to art theft)

Since we’re on the topic, specifically what I do have a problem with:

- Don’t use my art for AI training or for NFTs

- Don’t profit off my art (no merch is allowed without my approval, if you want to use my art for commercial purposes, this must be discussed with me in advance)

- Don't pass off my work as your own (here does reposting my art without credit, creating blogs/accounts impersonating me and so on)

- Don’t use my personal projects (this applies to my ocs, any original IPs/content I create: picture books, comics, artbooks, megadrawings etc. At some point in the future I may register a legal copyright for them btw.)

I’m more flexible and forgiving with fandom art, but still would appreciate ppl communicating with me. Fandom comic dubs - are welcomed, just be sure to credit me (tag me and share the final dub too man, I’m always interested). Fandom comic translations - ask permission first please.

This list is a pretty standard for any artist really, if you’re doubting something - feel free to ask 👍

If you see somebody breaking those/potentially breaking those - feel free to notify me 👍

I considered creating “blog rules” or “list of boundaries”, but I’m not sure if it’ll work on my blog 🤔 My header is pretty oversaturated as it is - portfolio, tags, navigation and so on; if I add rules to the pile, something tells me ppl won’t even look at it 💥 + I didn’t have specific issues with anyone yet (as far as I’m aware), I might create a list if something happens, but stayin hopeful for now

There’s certain things that do make me very uncomfortable/are triggering to me. But again didn’t have any specific issues where it was a huge problem + those stuff are highly personal to me to just put publicly. For now, I prefer to resolve issues personally, there wasn’t anything I couldn’t handle at this point 🫡 Mayhaps in the future it may change, we’ll see

Also some might have noticed that I don’t use any watermarks/signatures on my art, again considered that, but never ended up implementing that 🐻‍❄️ Some part of me just likes lookin at pictures in full HD quality with no watermark 😭 (I have an art signature, but I mostly use it in my mega drawings or if someone specifically asked for a commission lmao)

Sorry for a wall of text on such a sweet ask 💥 Just saw an opportunity to talk and took it lmao

Thank you, I really appreciate your words ❤️💕

Made a doödle of the narrator bois for the old time sake :D

Surprisingly there is a bunch of reposts of my art, with is a bit wild to me (you guys actually like my comics? 🤨 what? 🤨)

Especially never imagined my voices x princesses would get so popular 💥

Oh I see you went under read-more

Come closer

Closer

Just a smol step more

I forgot to draw Smitten’s brows in this specific frame

Now you will never unsee it 😈😈😈

*tiny mischievous bear giggling*

[fortunatelyannoyingcrown]

Just went down the Reddit rabbit hole, and found this sub aside from the main acotar sub- non toxic Acotar? Lmao, I think I just found out what the "non toxic" refers to- it is just a community for Feyre/Rhysand Stans to sit in their little echo chamber and spout misinforming crap about Tamlin/Nesta and Lucien sometimes....

Anyways, there was a post someone put up about what it "would take for Feyre and Tamlin to be Cordial"....

And some of these stupid and biased responses honestly had my blood boiling .I have ss a few here and I'll give my response to each comment as I go...

Oh sincere apology, you say?The one at the end of ACOMAF was not enough?What do y'all Feyrug bitches want him to do?Fall on his knees before her? Frankly, I wish he didn't apologize at all, or save her miserable life.She owes him way way more than he does her so just sftu. And also, look at your own faves' sin list?She can't just be demanding or even expecting apologies when she has done even worse to ruin his life and his court and his legacy, can she?.When Feyrug gives her apology, we'll think about Tamlin extending the same.

Imagine belittling what a depressed suicidal human being is going through, and making it his fault.No sweetie, your fave is a big part of the reason he is the way he is, she destroyed his life for no good reason.But yeah, taking accountability is something Feyrug has never really been good at.

"Feyre might come around"- who TF even is she? That war criminal needs to sit down with herself for a bit, and look at all the peoples' lives she has actively destroyed.So yes, Feyrug Stan you too can stfu and actually understand that your fave has done worse shit to Tamlin that she needs to own up to and apologize for...

And then there's another loser

Like honestly the way there people prop Feyrug on a pedestal when she doesn't even deserve it, like Jesus Christ, I hope Tamlin doesnt even get a POV, if SJM is going to pander to this bitch ass fandom, and have him apologize to her.I would rather he even die than that. Because if he dies, he can die with his self respect intact, instead of bowing before that monstrous bitch and her POS husband.

But unless Feyrug apologizes for all the pain she has caused him, very knowingly in fact, and acknowledges that she has been a POS, I don't want her within a ten foot distance from Tamlin

Like bitch, stay TF away from him Go back to Rhysie poop, your favourite rapist husband, but don't you dare expect an apology from him

If it ever happens, I will throw that copy of the book against the wall.I won't leave Feysand/ Feysand stans alone after that...

Have to get off my soap box now...

[helslastangel]

Yeah I think when it comes to men and their big 6 placements the only water sign i like being around is Cancer. Especially Cancer + Sagittarius or Cancer + Leo heavy charts. Pisces would be cool if they didn't sit back like lazy Greek philosophers and make me do the chasing, big ick ... I'm the woman here, jeez. But Scorpio just makes me downright uncomfortable and exhausted.

Every word I say to Scorpio sun, moon, mars, or Mercury men just gets taken so far out of context or interpreted in the most intense and negative or weird way possible with SO many words put in my mouth that I did not say. It's like trying to date a criminal lawyer who has been hired to defend anyone BUT you. Constantly have to be clarifying, and correcting, you start thinking of disclaimers for everything you say and holding back because you could tell a man with heavy Scorpio placements that you don't like chocolate ice cream, and instead of saying "Oh really? Aww that's a shame I love it" or "lmao I hate it too" like a fucking normal person they gotta say some shit like "oh so do you think that maybe you have some subconscious conditioning against the darkest flavor of ice cream because of how society treats minorities? It seems you might have some self-hatred going on, you should work on that"

Like... seriously dawg? No. It's ice cream. Chocolate is a flavor I merely do not like in ice cream. What in the Wattpad-reddit-pilled world is wrong with you?

And yes I'm generalizing in this moment cuz this kind of shit has happened with every Scorpio sun/moon/mercury/mars and occasionally venus I've ever dealt with. For a very long time.

It seems to be less common with Scorpio risings, thank God. They get the whole cool dark aura without the rest of this shit.

Now I'm kind of worried that I come off like this to other people as a Scorpio Venus even though that is the only Scorpio placement in my personal planets (my other placements are in Jupiter, Pluto, Node, and Juno).

I do experience this a tiny bit with Scorpio-heavy women too but honestly not nearly as heavy-handed with it. I can be friends with Scorpio-dominant women. I need frequent breaks and maybe couldn't handle dating one but it's not even half as draining at all.

Scorpio placement women seem to know how to dole this shit out in doses or raise the heat slowly. Like imagine being a frog; a Scorpio-heavy woman will put you in a little pot and turn up the heat slowly so at least by the time you're cooked you're already dead tbh like it's the definition of being killed softly but Scorpio-heavy men will just boil the water in the back while you're happily ribbiting on their shoulder having no idea they're about to yeet you into the pot with a sling slot. Like man if you don't put me back on my lilypad and leave me alone

I love my Cancer + fire sign men, they're just moody and whiny and respond to food and belly rubs like cats. I can deal with that.

I'm just really annoyed rn sorry y'all 😘

[lilylushes]

Luigi as Songs from Every Taylor Swift Album

Debut: I'm Only Me When I'm With You - This song is SO Luigi coded to me bc he's said he feels different from everyone else so the whole idea of letting your guard down while with the person you love would be something that'd be important to him.

Fearless: Jump Then Fall - I think that he'd be scared of heartbreak bc he doesn't appear to have that much relationship experience, so he'd need some reassurance that his person would work through things with him and stand by him (Bonus: Fearless - The whole kissing and dancing in the rain thing is so him to me).

Speak Now: Castles Crumbling - He has a lot going on right now and I'm NOT assuming guilt here, I'm just saying he might have regrets about letting people down and cutting his family off. Going from valedictorian Ivy League grad to being in prison would be an extremely difficult experience.

Red: Run - Luigi is a traveller, and he told people he was travelling to find himself and get away for a while.

1989: You Are In Love - If you don't think he embodies this song, GET OUT. "One night, he wakes, strange look on his face. Pauses, then says, "you're my best friend." PLEASE, this is so him.

Reputation: Literally the whole damn album - lmao but probably Dress or So It Goes bc...you know...ovulation songs

Lover: Daylight - This is how I see him okay ik it's parasocial but let me pls.

Folklore: this is my trying - Luigi's been an overachiever his entire life. On his Reddit, he said that he had brain fog and was barely passing classes. I can imagine that this song would resonate for him (Bonus: the lakes - The same justification as "Run" but add in him wanting to somewhere in nature).

Evermore: gold rush - this has been established lol

Midnights: I literally had to pick 3 from this album lmao - Labyrinth - I think Luigi probably has anxiety about letting go and giving his heart to someone else. It's just an impression lol. You're On Your Own, Kid - I think post-grad life for Luigi was hard (again, an impression I have). He succeeded so much academically and socially at school and could have felt quite lost after. This, coupled with the desire to be accepted, makes this song remind me of him. Snow On The Beach - I'm gonna write something ab this shhhh

TTPD: Robin - Luigi has said that he feels different from others, and I think he's a unique person. I really hope he keeps those special qualities about him no matter what happens. He deserves to be protected from the cruelty of the world.

[velvetwyrme]

Ohhhh shit if that’s Baxter TC’s dog I’m just imagining domesticated cybug TC.

Starscream and Skywarp being wild bugs sneaking into her house because it’s TRINE SEASON. not to be confused with mating seasons but it is similar in the fact that it is a season we’re unclaimed (in a trine way) seeker cybugs would look for their second and third life partners and form their near unbreakable bond.

She just caught Starscream’s trying and failing to do some sneaky link shit (trine courting TC) Most likely a hollering Skywarp is somewhere in the house too (maybe still in TC’s enclosure or rest areas and/or hiding in a potted plant or vent that leads outside) watching Starscream be captured by the dreaded plastic cup of doom.

Only for him to get sticky trapped later with a kinda concerned TC bringing Baxter to the poor idiot.

hi ur correct on So Many counts. i can finally post this because i'm postin the seekers in like A Few Minutes ill link it later lol LINKED NOW

anyway longer conversational reply/yapping under the cut

1. idk if ill ever show it because i wanna draw other stuff but in the cup image i imagine that Skywarp is off working on courting TC without Starscream </3 rhfjfhdjbtfjfhgkf he 100% watched Starscream get trapped in a cup and is just like eh he's fine.

losing it at the image of Skywarp in a glue trap though GFJFBDK save him.

2. Maybe it's Maxine "Buster" Baxter........... M as a nod to Marissa. Idk i haven't touched on the human characters in this AU (and am personally avoiding doing so just as a fun limitation and so i have less characters to keep track of) but also shes probably Buster's neighbour that TC likes.

Busters "real" name isn't likely to come up ever but yknow. fun side thoughts. Green gets to be Felicity (Flyt-city...) Greene, and Buster gets to be Maxine Baxter 😂 idk in my brain everyone just calls her Buster anyway.

3. YEAH!!! They're all different subspecies of Seeker and Buster just didn't realize <3 She figures it out at some point after all 3 of them show up though. (Shortly after posting the Reddit/Seddit Post, I assume lol)

I realised when drafting this part out that since I had already teased Buster before, it meant that I had already included TC in her pfp so either she got Starscream first (years ago) and THEN got TC, OR... she had TC and then was confused as to what Starscream was when he showed up because they look pretty different. I think I had decided to go with the latter less than an hour before ur last ask came thru LMAOO so I was yelling. Like. YEAH. EXACTLY. I also figured that trining between different subspecies was unusual less than an hour before ur last ask so I was Doubly Yelling. LMAO.

I am. not making a research article mockup, I had to write enough of those in uni fhdkfhdk,, it is a neat idea though!! (very fun idea for the rainmakers being a cameo i respect that o7)

4. HOWEVER. thank you for the inspo for a segue into the next part I loosely have planned for the seekers- since it's Unusual for three different subspecies to trine, and with the idea of her being a backyard scientist, she gets to take them in for checkups/research purposes since they're an unusual case 👍 or, to quote the unofficial title of the next seeker feature in my notes: "Starscream goes to the vet".

I already knew I needed that to happen but now it has a reason <3

[sasdavvero]

random evolution of fem rin's hair in my head,,, ramble under the cut cus you probls cant read the texts (i also cant rip)

i checked on reddit (after drawing these) and apparently Sae goes to spain at 13 and stays for 4 years (so till he's 17 - so when rin is 15)

okay good. i didn't know that. now

I imagine rin wasn't one to care too much about her hair as a kid? I think she had long hair mostly cus that's expected for girls, and maybe sae also helped her with it, so, i dont think she would care that much. I do think she's hate the hairstylist tho, especially when very little, so i imagine her hair was always a bit on the messy side, because she maybe didnt go that often to cut it, so like, split ends, messy layered locks and so on. (drawing 1)

I think that when sae went to spain, and rin was 11, Rin just stopped caring completely, in a way: her hair got longer and wilder, and her parents stopped trying when she was 12/13, because of any reason.

Maybe rin saw sae in TV (<- i have no clue of what sae did in spain other than training but it's safe to say that yk, since he *is* The promising japanese soccer player, it's safe to say he did play on TV too) and sae had very very short hair (literally canon haircut in my head. ah, sae used to have longish hair too i think! no clue) and she's thinks that maybe sae would be happy to see her with neat hair for once in her life when she comes home (?? i dont honestly remember if the itoshi meeting is planned or if rin is surprised to see sae there cus he didn't expect him to be there,,, we will move on, this works either way) so she impulsively gets an undercut and cuts very short her hair (drawing 2), so it's neat and combed and a bit more like sae,,,,

Tho, the meeting happens. The trauma that rin still carries, basically. She regrets cutting her hair as much as she can. She wished she had never tried to be like her sister. She hates a lot of stuff.

So, her hair grows longer (drawing 3). Again messy and with split ends and little care. She goes to Blue Lock with some kind of bowl cut she wishes could grow faster. Her middle-forehead longer lock is annoying when she plays, it gets into her eyes, and still, she wished it could completely cover her vision if only so she's know that her hair is finally long enough to tie it up.

And yeah. This is.... it . I am having so many feelings thinking of rin rn. I dont know why lmao, anyway

[bartletslesbians]

what is the most underrated ship, in your opinion?

and

rate CJ x Toby 1-10 and explain why

Ship asks | Accepting!

(sidenote, to anon if you're reading along; this also answers your question, in relation to my tags on this post)

What is the most underrated ship, in your opinion?

For this I'm gonna go with CJ/Carol, partially because even I don't actually love them more than two other CJ ships and I'm the only one who's written for them in like 2.5 years. When I first got into this fandom, I think I sorta expected CJ/Carol to be more popular, even just among femslash ships? And I was really surprised to see them at only 10 fics at the time, when a few other femslash ones have between 50-100 fics. (I know those are small numbers anyway, but like, still yknow?) They deserve more love! But also I'm more partial to Andy/CJ and Danny/CJ myself so like, I get it lmao, but they do deserve it anyway. I'm gonna get them to twenty fics this year at least.

Rate CJ x Toby 1-10 and explain why

Actually coming up with a rating was so difficult, and I'm currently settling on 6/10? Though I'm also considering a 5/10 admittedly, and it might become a 5.5 just cause that's the minimum needed to pass a class in the Netherlands and that feels appropriate.

And it's complicated.

I never really saw something romantic between the first few times I watched the show. And then I looked up the fandom on AO3, saw the amount of fic, read a bunch of it (like, I'm very sure I read at least half of all the cj/toby fic out there for a while), and when I rewatched the show that made me look at the show differently and go oh see there's something there, and it was fun. And then I got further into the fandom in different social media places like twitter/reddit/discord/tumblr etc. and... sometimes I wish I hadn't looked TWW up on some social media, cause the way that the fandom sometimes talks about CJ/Toby as this god-given obvious beautiful things that had to have happened and how could you not see it? are you even watching? do you even get these characters? and how the leak in the context of the ship is discussed (especially the whole "she leaked the information and because he's such a good man and she's a cowardly bitch (apparently?) he took the fall" idea, but also just the general dismissal of how much that hurt her and the (passive) agressive response if you sympathise with her on that... listen I get that the leak is whole Thing in this fandom but that just gets on my nerves.) It just kinda soured some of it for me?

And then I rewatched the show again and all those moments that after all the fic I did think were so romantic, just kinda felt the same way as it had on every other watch before that. Which, you know, fair.

I can very easily see why it's as popular as it is, and I get that completely, this really is no hate towards the ship at all. But I just don't vibe with the way twitter and reddit especially, but larger fandom too, talks about the ship and how the characters 'should' function within it, and that makes me not want to spend my time diving into it. It's fine, it's a fine ship, I get it.

But I don't love the discussions around it, nor how the characters are widely discussed within the ship. I just don't agree, and that's fine. I imagine I would've liked them better if I'd stuck to the show and AO3 and not gone onto social media; I really did love reading the fic. I still watch and save every CJ/Toby edit I see cause it IS a fascinating dynamic. A few of my friends love it and I completely get why, but I think I just wish it wasn't treated as the "basically canon" or "should have been canon" "it's a given, everyone knows that" ship, and because it often is, it went from "I don't see it" to "I don't really want to see it" for me? There's other CJ ships that I like much better, and where I vibe a lot better with fandom takes on them, or where they're not popular enough to have any fandom discussion, and that's just more my thing.

[dracaryswonder]

everything that has been happening is INSANE, it's either nothing for days or everything in the span of a day lmao

but this whole notes thing uncovered a mess. i thought there was indeed someone on their team, possibly a pr expert, lurking online to know what's going on and what to do... i couldn't imagine they were literally in contact with people who run a subreddit... to whom they gave special "privileges" like picking his clothes, deleriving the birthday surprise and info in general. in my opinion, it makes them (luigi included) seem way less genuine and luigi pays the price for that, obv. there was already so much discourse about the letters being pr and now i fear this will convice them of that because now we know for sure that there's a pr person deeply involved in the comunity, they're not just monitoring. i really hope this doesn't backfire :/

I was just thinking about how we get nothing for weeks and then everything happens within the span of two days 💀

I think this whole situation has already backfired it just doesn’t look great for Agnifilo firm to allegedly have a pr person who is in close contact with reddit mod who is also bragging about it

[namgyunation]

Anon from before - haha you're welcome for more excuses to type. Thank you for respondinga! I honestly thought the same as you, but so many people on ig threads and reddit ones have been arguing this specific thing with me like "he was high so he must have thought it was min-su not nam-gyu". And fair enough about being high given what happened to gyeong-su, but the reason I don't buy that -apart from the fact that Him ditching nam-gyu after he was initially hesitant to give him pills he thought would hurt him doesn't make sense to me - is the way nam-gyu then very insincerely says "I told him you'd survive" like bruh did no such thing 💀 which sort of sets that up as a lie. then we have the "I'm sorry boyyyy! open the dooorrrr!" thing which again, insincere af before he's like I'M SO FUCKIN' ANGRY MAN111!!

And yeah I dont know if you watched the show in English/another language or in Korean with the subtitles but in the Korean version my subtitles said "thanks to you I bonded with nam-su here" when he's telling off mg coin in the beginning. Which seemed like a very genuine statement when he said because he didn't need to say it for any reason at that point, nam-gyu was already supporting him, he wasn't scared of him like min-su etc.

(adding onto this post with the other ask you sent me) +

Same anon also omg that photoset you reblogged where rjw says thanos looked down on him, yeah I think thanos sort of does that with everyone but the thing is, the others didn't care? Se-mi didnt care, gyeong-su is starstruck and not eeally noticing, min-su is scared. But nam-gyu cares. nam gyu's resentment combined with how he wants thanos to respect him and see him as his equal etc lowkey reminds me of like when you're seeing a guy and you want more/have feelings but they don't/are a fuckboy, is what I compared it to (a situation both me and a friend of mine who also saw it, have been in). I could honestly see that applying both for platonic (like gretchen and Regina in mean girls?) Or for more (he really did give the vibe that he was into thanos as more than a friend to me) but tldr; YES that is exactly how I interpreted them and I'm sorry I'm spamming you I'm just excited to find 1 other person outside of my friends group that has the same takes as me.

oh really?? i'm surprised ppl are fr arguing about that. i might be biased but idk. i thought it was pretty clear he was joking. he was already picking nam-gyu without a second thought throughout the whole game. it was never a question to thanos if nam-gyu was going to be paired up with him in all the previous rounds. it was always thanos and nam-gyu going, "ok, who's coming with us?" like when they made min-su and se-mi rock paper scissors to determine who they'd take. they didn't have to ask each other if they were going to be together!

i mean, it's fair to say that since he was high, the possibility of him fr thinking he was with min-su could be there. but ehhhh idk. min-su went along with what thanos said out of fear and because he had no idea how to say no or stand up for himself, while nam-gyu enthusiastically followed him around and backed him up on everything, stroking his ego perfectly lol. min-su barely actually talks or makes the effort to talk with thanos (or nam-gyu). for someone who thinks so highly of himself, i feel like the choice for which of them to "save" and maintain the strongest alliance with would be clear for thanos, even when under the influence. also i saw someone comment this, but i think it’s funny to imagine that thanos also favored nam-gyu over min-su in that moment because nam-gyu returned his weird ass head shake thing LMAO

and yeah the whole 'bullying min-su in the bathroom' scene. no hesitation from thanos to try and intimidate min-su and shove him back on the toilet, all the exaggerated sweetness from earlier gone. and then ofc nam-gyu's pathetic ass is there again to back him up like thanos knew he would LOL

thanos knew that choosing nam-gyu over min-su would be more beneficial to him because of the fact that he happily follows whatever thanos wants, while min-su's growing increasingly rattled and is obviously taking more and more convincing to keep voting the way he wants him to.

and yes i watched it in kr! i agree with what you said. because of how thanos's personality is, i wouldn't be surprised if he played it up a bit / exaggerated how deeply he and nam-gyu "bonded" especially with how he added "because.. we shared the same pain 😿😿</3", but either way i do see it as a genuine statement. probably also said it to intimidate mg coin more and make it clear to him that (at least) two of the dudes he was now stuck in this confined space with did notttt fuck with him at all and were likely going to give him a really hard time

and then to respond to the second part of your ask—

i agree! and i'd say that top basically confirmed that in his netflix interview.

"before facing off against the front man, thanos probably thinks he's the boss there. after getting beat up... he probably confidently considers himself second in hierarchy."

thanos looks down on everyone no matter what. his ego is huge. the difference between him and nam-gyu (who i'd say also has a gigantic ego), is that thanos can actually somewhat back it up through his unwavering confidence and status. also, unlike nam-gyu, thanos's ego is pretty hard to bruise. he just seems so sure of himself, despite being cringey and a complete moron (said with love)

the others don't gaf fr! gyeong-su doesn't give a shit, clearly, he's just happy to be there and is pleased enough by the simple fact that thanos is letting him follow him around. se-mi thinks thanos is an idiot. she seems sure of herself, too, so why the hell would she care about what he thinks, of all people. and yeah, min-su is too terrified to care about how thanos views him lmao. he just doesn't want to die.

and then nam-gyu.... clearly has a lot of deep set issues and things that had to have happened to him in order for him to have grown up into the way he is: extremely sensitive and susceptible to the criticism/opinions of others, insecure, etc.

also i can totally see what you're saying with the whole fuckboy thing. nam-gyu always seems like he's trying to subtlely inch closer to thanos and advance their weird parasocial 'friendship' into something more genuine. nam-gyu likes the idea of being closer to a celebrity, someone who's 'cool', maybe he likes his music too idk, but either way the thought of being close to someone like thanos is tantalizing to him.

while i personally prefer to see the two of them in more of a 'bros' way, where nam-gyu is pathetically trying to get closer to thanos for the clout of being friends with someone with status whom he's a fan of, i also can see the appeal of seeing it in a more 'shippy' context. it could go either way, and i feel that's where personal interpretation and headcanons come in.

also just a random comment, but nam-gyu's behavior reminds me a lot of the whole 'group leader' meme (2 examples linked lol) that went around, obviously with thanos being the 'group leader' and nam-gyu being the fucking loser constantly trying to impress him, and i just think that's funny as fuck, which i think is partly why i prefer to see them in a more platonic sense lmao.

despite nam-gyu's efforts, i really don't think their relationship advances much. there's some level of mutual trust there, like 'you have my back, i got yours', but beyond that, i wouldn't say i could see either of them genuinely opening up to the other or anything. nam-gyu repressed all his animosity towards thanos that slowly built up over the duration of the series. it's so hard for him to be honest and upfront about his feelings, clearly. thanos never saw nam-gyu as an equal, nor did he ever really respect him lmao. though in an au where they survived the games and actually talked to each other when they're NOT under the influence or desperately trying not to die, i could totally see them being actual friends.

i'd honestly argue that thanos didn't care nearly as much about nam-gyu as people try to make it seem (at least in the canon moments in the show that we see up until thanos's death). definitely don't see him caring about nam-gyu in a head over heels romantic sense, nor in a 'omg bestie bae forever and ever; we're so soul-bonded and you get me in every single way kyaaaaaa i luv uuuuuuu let's get noodles and drinks after the games mwah mwah <3'

NOT saying that i think he completely didn't care about him. he did care, but i personally view thanos's 'care' for nam-gyu being as simple and surface-level as "oh this guy hates the same dude as me, and he does what i want. that's my bro now. he's chill enough, and also won't stop fucking bothering me, so i'll give him the drugs." and then he shows concern over nam-gyu's arm in like a "damn, alright...!" way. he also shows concern in the basic sense that he doesn't want nam-gyu to die, which isn't that special. he was really rattled over what happened to mina in the first game. i don't think he consciously wanted anyone to die (except maybe mg coin LOL).

"i always thought thanos had the intelligence of a goldfish." - top

yeah, that guy is NOT forming any deep thoughts!

anyways. that was a fucking lot i'm sorry LOL

and omfgggg pls do NAWT apologize for spamming me LMAO; i encourage it. i'm insane about squid game (and nam-gyu) right now so i really do like hearing other people's thoughts about the characters!!! i'm legit hanging out with tumbleweeds in the desert rn

also a big part of the reason i make those posts anyways is bc it makes me feel so happy and also sane when other people say they have the same takes as me, especially since most of the fan content i see usually contradicts how i personally view these guys LOL so props to your friend group <333

[neutron-stars-collision]

I don’t know if you are aware but there’s a wonderful podcast called what a barb a polin podcast. In the latest episode, they’ve managed to see some season 3 scripts and come across some really brilliant tibbits:

There’s a deleted scene in season 2, episode 8 where Colin takes of Penelope’s fake ruby necklace and calls it beautiful

Before the wedding in season 3, episode 7 Colin is approached by a sex worker called Ambrosia, who he declines business with. It turns out its a bet between Ambrosia and Fife.

Before getting out the carriage in episode 4, Colin tells the toxic lord squad to F *** Off [ I personally would love to have seen this]

The pictures of this are on the Polin and main subs on reddit if you want to see more.

Yes, I’ve seen this! There’s so many different takeaways from this but for one, I’d have loved that ruby necklace in scene. Just imagine the ✨tension✨ And Colin being his adorable chaotic self, so in Pen’s business in public lol

The Ambrosia scene I’m not so keen on. Because while nothing happens, I just know that Colin-haters would’ve used this scene to back that ridiculous theory that he’d be the one Bridgerton man that would cheat. And I hate that theory. So it’s good it didn’t make it to the final cut.

And yes, let Colin swear 2k26 mission is a go lmao I’d eat that shit up

[markantonys]

A weird trend I've noticed (at least among Twitter show to book first timers) is quite a few of them hating show Rand in s1 but loving him immediately when reading Eye of the World. Which is kinda bizarre to me? Especially considering how they aged him up in the show and he's way more mature than he is the books. And I adore book Rand he's my favorite character in the entire series and glad more people are liking him. But makes me feel more protective of show Rand cause he also deserves the love!

I think the reasons though are cause showwise we can't see inside his head so people who didn't like him in s1 see where he's coming from when reading the book since they see his thoughts? Idk

that's so rude!!! i would guess it's because s1 rand expresses anger (and expresses anger towards female characters lmao) much more than eotw rand, who is just kinda quietly vibing and drinking his milk and being wholesome and keeping most of his negative emotions in his head because he's too polite to express them aloud (which obviously can't work in a visual medium). overall, according to my vague memories of eotw, i'd say that s1 rand is a much stronger personality than eotw rand, which makes him a more dynamic and interesting character but at the same time puts him at higher risk of rubbing people the wrong way than Untoasted White Bread Blank Slate Boy aka eotw rand haha

and the maturity increase is similar. in eotw, mat is immature in a way that most people find grating and unlikable, and so most people agree that he unequivocally benefits from the show's maturity increase. but rand in eotw is less "immature" and more "naive", he's immature mostly in a sweet and endearing way, and so maybe this group of readers doesn't care that he's acting more like a tween (or even a straight-up child at times) than the young adult he's supposed to be, they just find him Cute And Baby, and meanwhile they find s1 rand rude and unlikable because he has more serious problems and reacts more seriously to said problems (thinking mostly in terms of his relationship with egwene here - a certain subset of viewers hate s1 rand for having his own feelings & opinions in the relationship rather than being 100% fine with getting dumped in ep1 and then 100% happy to jump back into egwene's arms like nothing happened in ep2 when she wants to reverse her decision, so i could imagine they like him more in eotw when his problems with egwene are mostly silly and childlike and treated comedically by the narrative, as opposed to legitimate conflicts in an established long-term romantic relationship which the narrative takes seriously)

but if you don't love rand at his throwing a tantrum at moiraine in s1, then you don't deserve him at his going to get a glass of milk at midnight and spitting it out in surprise upon running into a fade! i can only imagine that these people are going to start hating book rand in later books once he stops being Untoasted White Bread Blank Slate Boy and starts developing a stronger personality and rougher edges lmao

(also, all this is not to say that rand's eotw softness doesn't come across in the show, because it absolutely does! i think s1 rand is on the one hand angrier and more volatile than eotw rand (which gets him hate in spaces like twitter and tumblr among those who deem any male character who isn't nice and agreeable 100% of the time Trash) yet simultaneously he's also more openly affectionate & tender and more of a homebody (which gets him hate in spaces like reddit among those who deem any male character who isn't a badass power fantasy 100% of the time Lame))

[infin-8-morphosis]

So the past few days I've been working on the world map again and I. Welll I've run into a problem. A big problem

See. Theres a big crater.

(Map rotated so it doesnt take up 4 screens lmao)

And ummm. errr. I never really considered something important. How big the thing hitting it is.

That box you might be able to see is 'another planet'. In order to fit the size of the crater it has to be. fucking. huge. Like possibly ten times the size huge. However the fact things squash i assume the crater wouldn't be perfectly round so it would maybe be wierd and flat.

However either way this is so. So much. How is gravity affected? Tectonically a lot of time is implied to have passed so what would even happen then.

However i like the idea of enormous deep crater because as sloppily modelled in the second pic, i had an idea. Marianas trench is what, 10 km deep? Imagine the depth of this thing being even 1% of the planets diameter (its a bit smaller than earth) and therefore. Imagine the insane pressure.

And therefore what is at the bottom.

I need to show this to some reddit nerds for them to tell me 100 reasons this wouldn't work and is completely ridiculous

Anyway that's cool and all. but it gets cooler. or maybe hotter. Since the crater is coincidentally on the bright side of this tidally locked system (Its a moon so it still has day and night but largely only one side gets most of the sunlight) and the way the seasons on it work is that it has an elliptical orbit that gets further and closer to the sun every 'year'.... What if the difference in sunlight and heat... melts the giant ice spot every year. causing a seasonal tide system where its real high in summer and low in winter. oh yeah. think about it. seaside towns at water level in summer and high on cliffs in winter.... seasonal islands and paths... ooouuurgghhh....

Though it wouldn't actually work I'm pretty sure. Because the pressure would make it stay ice anyway. BUT. Its reasonable sounding enough right? You'd believe it and think I understand science if I put this in my worldbuilding right. You also think plausible seasonal ice spot tide is more important than full realism. Yes you do.

Anyway probably the bigger problem is that I've envisioned the like, lowland of the crater being a flat, wet jungle that has a delta on one point of it. And ummm. Errr. I dont think the edge of the crater is flat. Not at this scale at all.

I was having trouble visualising this from an individual perspective though. What would it look like to actually be on the crater? How would the curvature work? So of course I used the finest tech to envision this.

Spore galactic adventures.

(Hey can we talk about how before its time GA was and how cool and good it still looks it still looks good and its so cool)

Honestly not sure what to do with any of this. I'm at least going to have to rethink the edge a lot.... And I already drew it too...

Seems the jungle is going to have to be way steeper and maybe have no delta. (Giant waterfall also cool) Not sure how the drop would work. Like would the atmosphere be denser. Or would it even out. or something. Lots to think about and learn be dunked on by nerds for being wrong about (fun).

[wolfofcelestia]

GASP!!! also (sorry for rambling on and on i’m just in a hyper mood lol) i think sylus is such a sucker for like… the typical romantic couple things

like you’re getting ready for the wedding (as a guest) and he’d walk over asking to zip up your dress for you. and offering to put your necklace on. if you can’t get your earrings in and get frustrated, he’d chuckle softly and help you hook them in, and you’d be surprised that it didn’t hurt one bit when he did it.

also the classic kiss on the back of the neck right after.

UGHHH i need sylus to actually be my husband i’m so done

He's definitely been dreaming about what kind of couple-y things he'd want to do with MC for years before he met up with her again. The same way he attended the Linkon New Year celebrations every year, seeing all the couples being happy together, and thinking about how much he wanted to be one of them with her

And I feel like after the disastrous first meeting with her, he'd be on the internet researching what kind of small mundane things he could do to show her how he feels

Like, imagine going on reddit and seeing "AITA for trying to make the girl i like resonate with me by having a wanderer attack her? she has experience in fighting wanderers and it was in a controlled setting. I wouldnt have let anything happen to her."

And all the comments are like "YTA bro thinks girls will like him if their lives are in danger lmao were you gonna pretend to save her to make her fall for you?"

"No need to pretend. I already saved her life once. My first impression was very cinematic if i do say so myself."

"LMAO THIS ISN'T A MOVIE BRO YOU'RE NOT BATMAN JUST GO HOLD HER HAND"

And then he gets obsessed with holding her hand ahddkshaldg

[jinxblueshifting]

Law of Assumption 🎇

i wanna yap about law of assumption for a bit, since it's something i've followed off-and-on since like 2019

What is the law of assumption?

it's NOT the same as a the 'law of attraction'. it has nothing to do with vibration/energy/frequencies. law of assumption mainly states that "when persisted, your assumptions will harden into fact, and then mirror out into your 3D world."

ex: if you have an assumption that it's difficult to make money, or you must work hard to make money, or that you're 'bad' with money, then that will be your experience.

The law of assumption also states that our subconscious is our creative power and that anything we imagine = we can have/we ALREADY have.

How does LOA work with manifestion/shifting/etc?

Okay, so I'm gonna show you the secret formula, mr. krabs. This reddit post is a really good one, but I'll break it down even further. If our imagination is the only reality, our consciousness, then that's what is real. Everything else (3D) is a dream + a reflection of old beliefs.

👍Manifesting works like this: Have a desire + go into your imagination (4D) + enjoy the feeling/happiness of having your desire + 'return' to the 3D and know that your desire is yours and has no choice but to show up = desire shows up in 3D like a cherry on top of a sundae.

❌Manifesting is not: Have a desire + visualize and affirm = get the desire in 3D & be happy in 3D.

Everything happens in imagination. The 3D is just a reflection and it can be changed at any moment.

It takes discipline. I won't lie. You have to be aware of your inner thoughts/conversations. If you constantly say to yourself that you're not worthy, or whatever, then your outer world is going to reflect that. worthiness has nothing to do with anything, actually. there are some morally awful people out here in the world with money, power, fame, etc.

What? So I can have ANYTHING I want?

yeah, basically. I've manifested every single place I've lived in like perfect apartments that were affordable for me. I manifested getting fired from a job (lmao. I didn't want to quit the job, for my own reasons). I've manifested relationships, large sums of money, various opportunities, finding lost objects, helping out situations for friends, etc.

It takes a bit of a leap of faith, I get it. But like...honestly what do you have to lose? If your options are 1) have the life you want vs 2) not having it....then wouldn't you choose to have it?