#in the 5 minutes he's actually in it

[frenchublog]

[milflaszlo]

And, brother, you know what they did? They danced. 📹: @medium-observation

[phantom-of-the-501st]

The thing is, it's framed as a happy ending, so much so that it makes you think it's a happy ending until you actually apply any level of critical thought to it.

Omega gets to live the rest of her childhood with her brothers (well... 3 of them at least) and goes on to fight in the Rebellion, which is fitting for her tbf. Hunter gets at least some degree of peace, as does Wrecker, but that doesn't mean a whole lot seeing as they did almost nothing with Wrecker over the course of the show. One of the only differences between Wrecker at the start and Wrecker at the end is that his brother is dead, so a very happy ending for him! Oh wait...

And don't worry, Crosshair may be suffering from a severe amount of trauma and unbelievable levels of guilt, but he doesn't have a hand tremor anymore. It was resolved by *checks notes* cutting his hand off? Errrm... okay.

And Echo? Fuck knows where Echo is. You'd think he'd actually get an ending in the episode that is supposed to wrap up the stories of all six of your main characters? Haha nope! Echo doesn't count apparently.

And we don't need to talk about Tech.

Okay, by the epilogue it's been years. That gives them time to process certain events and heal and find some level of peace, but it never shows that. And that's one of my biggest gripes with this show. I love it but why is all of the important stuff happening off screen?

The Batch processing Tech's death? Crosshair finding out about Tech's death? Processing trauma? 90% of Echo's whole storyline???

Sure, stuff can happen offscreen, but to have so many of your key character development points happening where the audience can't see it isn't useful. It makes me think of an interview Jennifer Corbett did where she said she believes that Echo and Rex have spoken about Fives multiple times. Okay great but like? We never see it? So how tf are we supposed to know this??? We were all watching S3 thinking "Wait does Crosshair even know about Tech dying???" Which isn't how that's supposed to be! That's not a plot point you leave that vague!

I didn't intend to go on this much of a rant but for how much I love this show, it grinds so many of my gears sometimes 😓

every time I see 'but the Batch got their happy ending it's so sweet how amazing' I'm like mmmmmmmmmm well some of them did, anyways...yes very sweet...

[a-most-beloved-fool]

there are many neat reptilian characteristics that one can give Cardassians. I've seen shedding scales, tails and claws, scent marking, and people making them ectothermic.

but consider:

Color changing ridges. Just for funsies. We already tend to headcanon that the ridges and spoons (chula, if you prefer) turn blue when aroused, mimicking the make up they wear in canon, but it would be a bit interesting if the ridges were Fully color changing, a la chameleons. Especially if they changed color based on emotions.

Because their culture is very focused on the Good of the State, it would probably be taboo to have your emotions plainly visible (too much risk of your colors giving away the fact that you aren't 100% content blindly serving the state). I think it would be typical to wear make up to cover up the color changing scales, or to wear paint in 'positive' colors.

Soldiers and the Obsidian Order might even find a way to chemically neutralize the color changing, either temporarily or permanently - it could be far too much of a liability, if someone got captured and interrogated.

Most non-Cardassians would be entirely unaware that this was a normal part of Cardassian physiology. Novels might have oblique references to the colors when describing emotions, but any book that spoke too clearly of them would be almost sure to get banned. Bashir would be slowly taking notes about which colors in novels seemed to correspond to which emotions, but he'd have no idea that it was because Cardassians could Literally Turn Those Colors. He'd just assume their color theory was different, and that they were Really into color metaphors for some reason.

Could be interesting to explore the cultural implications and see what kinds of new mischief happens on the station due to it.

[macbethz]

Me: yay fun little doctor who episode

The last ten minutes:

[spicyvampire]

4MINUTES (2024) EP. 7 // EP. 5

[kagoutiss]

the newly vassaled gerudo king is inexplicably handed a baby

[ratwithhands]

Read Right to Left (Manga Format)

I have returned to watching demon slayer after a year and it came up while I was having a serious late night talk with my big sister. I was talking about the relationship between Michikatsu/Kokushibo and Yoriichi and it turns out we both see each other in Yoriichi's shoes and ourselves in Michikatsu's place. Definitely surprising, but really relieving to know that we both worry too much and we are not so far apart in skill as we believe.

This is technically the first piece of fanart I've ever made for the characters in Demon Slayer, I have made OCs before but I never drew an actual character from the story. For context this is mostly just a fun "what if" scenario with them meeting in the afterlife. I like to think Yoriichi's love would reawaken Michikatsu's humanity.

[tricoufamily]

they are l and light to me

[mintypsii]

guys i love them i promise i just have the urge to put them through the grinder sometimes

umm on the bright side here's the alternate good ending version lol!!!!!

[tankvine]

so. walten files am i right fellas

[willowser]

oh. kirishima is that guy that tries to go on date after date after date and it just. never works out.

so genuinely into it, even has butterflies ! but he's at home getting ready and buttoning up his shirt and he takes a last look in the mirror and — he just wishes it was with you.

his date that night is so great and lovely and funny, but there are little moments when he looks at their face and feels a deep ache in his heart because he shouldn't want for someone else while a wonderful individual is sitting right there in front of him. but he does. thinks about what you would order to eat, to drink, if you would let him hold your hand on the way back to the train station, if you'd let him kiss you goodnight. just a small one, even.

and it doesn't help when he returns to work the following monday, just for you to gently knock on his office door, all bright-eyed and curious.

"so...how did it go? are we hearing wedding bells yet?"

his date was great. 10/10. he laughed and he joked and he blushed at their flirting and even texted them afterwards to make sure they got home alright. just as he's done with all the previous ones.

"nah," kirishima rubs the back of his neck and smiles lamely. hopes you read his disappointment as how the date didn't go and not over who it wasn't with. "plenty of fish in the sea, right?"

"aw, kiri, you'll find someone that's great for you soon, i know it!" you frown at him and he feels the back of his eyes sting, his chest grow heavy with all the things he wish he could say to you.

"yeah, no, you're right!"

but he just can't.

[starrysharks]

a buncha weirdos draw themselves

[gen4grl]

messy expression sketches + colouring with my oc clem who looks alot like her dad lol

[thatmightyheart]

coughs up blood gomen it seems this is all i could do for today…............... o|-< happy bday yusuke…..... :') 💙

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I’ve been doing some stream of consciousness thoughts re: Akechi and I think my final opinion on that whole situation is just… it sucks.

Like I’m not going to say “woe is he” or anything because boy, what are you doing. What the hell are you doing. You doomed yourself!!! Because of your own stupid pride!!! Akechi.

But I’m not going to say “cool motive still murder” either because. Can you imagine. Being that lonely and that hungry for anything resembling affection and pride in your person that you’d shatter yourself into pieces just to find a shard that they like best because you’ve grown up being told again and again that you are unwanted and unloveable as you are. Fundamentally. And all you have is this singular drive that makes you feel worse and worse about who you actually are inside so you double down on your fake image because at least fickle fame is better than nothing and it’s all you’re going to get at this point, but at the same time this drive is also the one thing you feel you’ve had any power to determine or enact, and you did it all yourself when the world expected nothing of value from you, so yeah, of course you’d pursue it harder to the point of violently self-destructing - only for that all to get wrenched away with “you never fooled me and I was just puppeteering you all along and I never needed you”, pulling the rug out from under your vengeful purpose, your autonomous image, and your starved core desire, all at once. And then your asshole dad’s twisted headspace image of you shoots you point blank.

He dooms himself because he thought he was already doomed. Caught up in a cycle of cruelty to both himself and others, that he saw no point in trying to escape from, and didn’t want to, because it would mean relinquishing the (it turns out) quite fragile image he’d painstakingly built up. He’s a product of his environment, which led to him making god-awful choices, which in turn trapped him in a worse environment. How many people have died here or become grievously injured as a result of it all.

What do I even do with this. It just all around sucks.