#in the dumbest way possible

[mythicalprincez]

I don't know why but I have the feeling that session five for the bamboozlers will be them running away from the Grian and the consequences of their actions

for 40 minutes plus

[wavewavethoughtsonly]

IlLogical

Shockwave revealing one of his many creations to overthrow the Autobots.

While everyone assumes Shockwave is being uncharacteristically stupid, Soundwave knows he’s trying to please him.

[xmaruu11]

I did the thing w DDVAU

[tofixtheshadows]

Hot take: Laios wouldn't actually mind an arranged marriage. Obviously "reluctant royal being pressured into marriage" is very fun for shipping purposes. But I have harlequin blood, so bear with me. Join me on this journey of character theorizing/shipping nonsense that makes it abundantly clear I have a Scrivener document I'm neglecting.

Laios was promised to someone from a young age. He and Falin both were; it's probably how their parents ended up together. They both broke it off by leaving their village, but it didn't seem to be a factor in Laios's own decision. And when Marcille, presumably, asks about his hypothetical love life (bicorn chapter), he not only brings it up readily, but actually seems kind of flattered? lmao

I love when smug Laios comes out. Underrated factor of Laios's personality for me is how much he enjoys being seen as cool. I think you'd expect Laios to be embarrassed or uneasy over this line of questioning, and the fact that he isn't is fun to me.

So when Yaad and his other old advisors bring up his need for a wife, Laios is ready to go along with it. Not necessarily thrilled by the prospect, but he was raised to think of marriage as a business arrangement you do because it's beneficial for your household/bloodline (as was often the case historically). He's already made the big step to claim a throne, and the idea of becoming village chief after his father seemed to have been vaguely in the back of his head all his life. Besides, if he has to do it anyway, I think he'd take comfort that there was a formalized process for an otherwise socially messy undertaking.

This dovetails neatly with my personal headcanon that Laios is gay but unaware of it. He comes from kind of a repressed culture- or at least I can imagine he does based on context clues- and has spent most of his life being ostracized in one way or another, feeling like he's on the outside of humanity. So he doesn't realize that his lack of attraction to women is unusual- he assumes that nobody really enjoys romance that much. It's not like his own parents married for love. It's just something people play up for stories, right?

It's all tangled up with his fraught desire for human connection and platonic companionship anyway. Meanwhile he's blithely unaware that the things he says about Toshiro are not normal bro things. Oh you'd totally marry Toshiro, Laios? Tell me more.

I see this in Marcille too. Firstly due to her unstable development, which has only recently allowed her to reach maturity (I headcanon her as somewhere between 20-22) and secondly due to her being a half-elf (infertile+a too-long lifespan), I think she has the expectation that she's simply not destined for love. The half-elf character she relates to in her favorite books says as much. So she, too, confuses a genuine lack of heterosexual attraction with the belief that this is just because of her half-elf status distancing her from it. Plus, she spent over a decade as a student/researcher in a nice little sheltered academic bubble, at an all-girls academy populated by adolescents. She's the most sheltered of all the characters: she's only spent the past year in the "real world", and she still focuses all her romantic attention on living vicariously through her favorite characters or her friends (except for Falin, conveniently!).

And Marcille would absolutely want to live vicariously through Laios and his future wife. She would not want him to go through a dispassionate formalized process: she wants her bestie to have a fairytale romance! What is the point of being a heroic king in a mythic castle if you can't even get a love story for the ages out of it?

This would result in a lot of Laios meeting with eligible bachelorettes at Marcille's urging, looking to Kabru for help the entire time and being grilled by Marcille afterwards about what he liked best about each girl. "She had nice, um, teeth?" They're both so close to getting it.

Kabru, meanwhile, is agitating for Yaad and the other advisors not lock the country into a hereditary monarchy, they have the chance to do something radical here, to break away from the systems that the elves and dwarves uphold. At the very least, let Laios marry for love, or formally adopt an heir and name them his successor if he wants, he's already sacrificed enough for the sake of Melini. Don't make him jump through these circus hoops for the chance of some trade agreements, we can get those without a royal marriage. And even if Laios was willing to go along with it, he does look at Kabru like he's his hero for sticking up for him.

The vague unhappiness Kabru feels at the idea of Laios being married off is easy for him to ignore. Kabru didn't actually get better at honoring or even recognizing his own wants just because he's moved past the dungeon. And Laios hasn't gotten the hint about his crush on Toshiro and is still 50/50 on saying casually shocking things, so when he remarks that he doesn't need a wife anyway when he has Kabru, he has no idea why that gets him the looks it does. After all, where he's from, men marry women to run their households, but Laios has castle staff for that, and Kabru is handling the rest?

That comment alone ticks one month off their collective gay awakening countdown.

Anyway. How many repressed gays in their twenties does it take to run a country?

Answer: Yaad can tell you.

[archie-sunshine]

not a req but i saw a fic concept where one berth partner had a sticky interface array and the other only had a plug n play array. like. imagine???

things get sexy, ur making out, ur spike housing pops open and ur berth partner turns around to reveal.

an electical socket.

listen dont ask me wtf happened when i was drawing roddy i dont know

[oldvampyaoi]

A slightly belated take on this post by @sburator

[petvengers]

it helped bucky to chill like literally almost 10 years ago:

and he was far less successful in takeing it off

although miguelito's chances don't look too good now either ;P

[loveoaths]

the best time travel fic trope is “guy who knows nothing goes back in time and somehow fixes everything.” no more darth vader traveling back to the republic era to change things. just drop din djarin in the temple so he can point a gun at yoda and say “the Push or whatever sent me, a wizard named luke skywalker, and your grandson here to kill a guy named sith. sith if you’re here please raise your hand” and the whole order explodes because did you say luke fucking skywalker

[snailmp3]

back on my trans girl yuuji agenda...........

guys do you think she'll figure it out??

text description below ↓↓

megumi and nobara are sitting on a couch. both of them are on their phones. yuuji is sitting on the floor in front of nobara with a controller in hand.

nobara looks up and asks, "why do you always play girl characters?"

yuuji replies, "'cause the girl characters are cooler"

nobara says, "hah, yeah, girls are better than boys"

yuuji says. "yeah, isn't that why most guys wish they were girls?"

megumi and nobara share a surprised look. they both look down at yuuji

[marinecanary]

Ford trying to hide the journals from Bill (or anyone who would help Bill) is so much funnier when you realize Bill can see through every photo/drawing of himself

[badly-drawn-bbu]

happy pride month! this is a sign to go spy on your rivals’ dates

[utilitycaster]

I really do dunk on villain stans a lot but the thing is like. I genuinely do not care on any sort of moral level if you love a villain, or villains generally. They are pretend. The murder and the war crimes aren't real. Do whatever.

The issue is that like, this is a person the narrative is telling you to root against, and that it's okay because they are pretend. That doesn't mean they can't have sympathetic qualities but it does mean that as a rule the story is telling you "hey, here are the heroes who oppose this person, cheer for them" and also "you should boo and hiss when this motherfucker comes on stage" and a lot of people who like villains will look at everyone else and go "why the FUCK are you booing and hissing don't you see they have TRAUMA" instead of acknowledging the big "TIME TO BOO AND HISS" signs being thrown out by the story and saying "bring it on."

And I suppose you can argue that this is an overly simplistic way of looking at it, but if we're dealing with a story with at least some reasonably clearly delineated heroes and villains you're not intelligent for trying to pretend it's more complicated than it is. I'm not talking about the gray areas of antagonist who could be persuaded otherwise, nor antihero but straight up "this is the bad guy, we all but have arrows pointing at them saying it". Like, really, a lot of people who stan villains don't seem to do it for the love of the game, which I would respect, but because of a sour grapes situation with the heroes, or because they're in their edgy "subversion automatically means you're the smarter one" phase.

Anyway my point is I don't care if you woobify a villain for any sort of moral reasons but I do think that if you do so, you're a coward and not terribly good at understanding stories. I also don't care from any sort of moral standpoint if you enthusiastically cheer on the villain, but if you act confused or mad that most people aren't with you on that, I think you're an idiot and not terribly good at understanding stories.

[hoomannotme]

Angst prompt: Phantom Thief Kaito Kid KILLS schoolboy Kuroba Kaito.

Imagine the potential for angst and comedy or betrayal and just about anything. ✧⁠\⁠(⁠>⁠o⁠<⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠✧

I want a Kaito who is dead legally by the law as in a whole case was opened about his death and Kaito Kid is now a wanted criminal.

Give me Hakuba who is now trying to catch Kid to prove to HIMSELF that Kuroba is alive. Shinichi (or Conan) who now is also dead set on trying to catch Kid because 1. Murder and 2. This is not what he expected from Kid at all like that's not his MO. The Nakamories who are even more set on catching Kid, Aoko who is now studying full time to be a cop in order to catch the thief that murdered her best friend.

[caleb-is-existing]

Ngl

I don't see Lance doing what is being spread.

Would it be funny? Yeah

Is it stupid? Yeah

Do we wait for real confirmation? Yeah

[touteytout]

love drawing her in some specific ass situations

[souplovingwerewolf]

One of my favorite "isn't supposed to be funny but ends up being f*cking hilarious" things is whatever is going on with the Life Of Luxury video thumbnails.

Just... Look

Theres so much happening