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[sainzinnorris]

oscar's answer of lando being a golf player.. beaten by carlos when asked what would lando be if not for a formula one driver. which directly implies that oscar believes that even if they weren't racing together, they'd find a way to find each other in a completely different sport unrelated to motorsports altogether.

[nczaversnick]

Thoughts I had while brainstorming

okay, so I know some of you saw my post about the series' main antagonist, General Lucia Atore. I talked about how I knew her whole thing is the lack of traumatic backstory and I've always known this about her because I have spent years trying to figure out just why she thinks all of this is okay. And I gotta say, I almost cannot believe that it was Jack Gru [if its spelled some other way that's my bad, I mostly do audiobooks not print] from the Last Magician series by Lisa Maxwell. In this essay, I will ramble unprofessionally about this.

Don't get me wrong, I love a good tragic backstory [Levana from the Lunar Chronicles is among my favorites] but there's just something that feels so raw about Jack and his arc. By societal standards he has every possible advantage. He was born a citizen in 1900s New York. Hes a rich, white, cishet man. He's got all the cards compared to the other characters in the story. The catch is that he's also subject [and often enforcer] of discrimination that existed at the time. He spends the entire series trying to eradicate the immigrants who have come to America to start new lives solely for the reason that he believes, with every fiber of his being, that he is superior to them.

And I think Lucia is the same damn way. But still, she takes a different approach. Both of them are working to control something neither of them really understand and both approach it from a scientific analytical viewpoint. Jack forces control by using the information in the Aurs Arcana to eradicate the magus. Lucia however takes the deviants that nobody wants or who bear specific genetic markers to conduct dangerous experiments on them. Both of them approach this as if such things are a strict science.

What they both fail to understand is that, both for the magus and the deviants, their power is not only their identity but it is their connection to the world around them. It flows and changes and yet is constant in the same way anything else in nature is. it is just a fact of existence for them and to be without it is beyond comprehension because of how close it is to their sense of identity.

Here is also where deviants and magus differ. Magus know they have power. They can always feel their connections to the Old Magic. But deviants, as a whole, have no idea. In Utristan, babies are tested at birth for genetic markers that deviants are born with. All citizens receive a chip embedded in their arms, but deviant chips are designed to suppress that power that society considers too dangerous. This leads to the struggles newer rebels have, like Caspian, who have no idea how much of themselves was taken away from them until it's returned, simply because there was no before.

tags for rambles

first and foremost, @leahnardo-da-veggie please accept this essay in return for the last essay I didn't write

@honeybewrites @the-golden-comet @the-letterbox-archives

[d13t0rt10n]

If someone was running for the elevator door and shouted out asking for the door to be hels open for them, and Jack was the only one in the elevator, would he hold the door, close it faster, or do nothing?

I'm gonna be so real:

It's two factors:

1) Who is watching

2) If the person running for the elevator is attractive

He would be OTT evil if he knew was watching outside the elevator

If not it would come down to if he thought they were cute because he is a creepy dude. 😭😭😭

He doesn't think forward enough to work out if he held the door for someone he doesn't like (ie the dragons) he can annoy them in a enclosed space. But one day he will

[novelistparty]

In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, we see a young Link, estimated age of 10. He quickly becomes embroiled in the fate of the Lost Woods and then the rescue of Princess Zelda. However, several hours later we encounter a much older and taller Hylian, also named Link, in possession of a blue, not brown, external syrinx as well as mature and well-developed ears. This suggests the evolutionary framework first put forth by the great evolutionary biologist Satoshi Tajiri in his seminal 1989 work "Pocket Monsters," and points us toward a possible third evolution known in the speculative literature as "ZeLink". In this essay I will

[skywarpie]

Copia being so stressed after becoming papa that he lives off cigarettes and coffee for the first few years until he looks like a deathly ill Victorian child bc he hardly ever eats or sleeps, feeling he has too much paperwork to catch up on and it just keeps piling up.

By the end of his second year he finally settles into the position and at the desperate urging of his ghouls finally starts to eat and sleep properly until he looks healthy again. He gets a pudgy tummy bc he forgets how to eat in moderation and constantly feels like he's starving. His ghouls constantly reassure him that he looks/seems healthier, tummy and all 😌

[pinkwright]

hear me out... prada house ambassador model!reader photographer!shuri, & the next campaign is sapphic sexual liberation right right BUT BUT walk w me reader is in the prada string below n shuri's losing it bc shes awkward n stiff as fuck when shes not behind the camera n esp in front of pretty girls (which is saying a lot bc shes surrounded by models for a living) but she rlly wants to do u justice so shes forcing herself to interact more but ur so intimidating n flirty its throwing her off AND AND maybe u guys leave as friends right but shuri cant help the way her mind swarms around fantasies about u n she feels sooo bad bc u guys actually get pretty close but she also cant deny that SOMETHINGGGG bout the shame n the embarassment make her so HAWT HAWTT AND THEN AND THEN- guys walk wit-

[gourde]

Any design can be made 10000x better by being a robot. It's just true. So many characters would be completely uninteresting if they weren't a robot. Or girl. Both are the same though. Robots are girls and girls are robots. Hatsune Miku

[ejzah]

In lieu of writing a story, I decided to spend far too much time writing an essay like post on a topic that’s been on my mind recently.

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Recently I’ve been thinking about characters who change over the course of a series. Particularly, characters who start out fairly normal or serious and then become increasingly more silly, ridiculous, or stupid. For instance, Frank Burns from MASH, Marty Deeks and Eric Beale from NCIS: LA, and Eric Matthews from Boy Meets World, and Tony from NCIS to name a few.

It could be argued that each of these characters had a comedic quality from the beginning. However, comedy was not their sole or defining characteristic. At some point though, the writers seemed to realize that they had a gift for comedy and leaned into that side. The problem is that this occurs with increasing frequency and often without reason.

Some start out as an antagonist, such as Frank Burns. In his first season, he’s described as a “fair” surgeon. He can be ridiculous at times, but is competent enough and mostly known for being overly by the book and military crazed. By the end of his run on the series, he’s a terrible surgeon, constantly makes a fool of himself, and finally ends up chasing after his now married mistress. In this case, instead of making Frank increasingly nasty or, he was made ridiculous to highlight why he wasn’t a suitable leader or surgeon.

In many shows that lean towards the more serious, it’s common to have a character who breaks up the angst, drama, and heaviness. Enter the likes of Eric Beale and Marty Deeks. Though they remained comparatively unscathed compared to some, both characters suffered in the name of comedy.

Eric Beale was a highly skilled tech operator who kept things running from behind the scenes and was critical to the team solving cases. Yet as the series progressed he went an eccentric genius to often odd and ridiculous.

From the beginning of his introduction, Deeks was established as a master at undercover, uniquely intelligent, and capable of using people’s assumptions about himself to his own advantage. Yes, he always talked a lot, but there was usually a purpose. Even in moments when he rambled, it was genuinely funny and not overplayed. However, as the series progressed the very writers who created this extremely intriguing, intelligent, and competent man, seemed to forget these aspects.

In an arc where Deeks is sent to the federal academy, we should have seen him excel. He had years of experience and knowledge compared to his younger peers. Instead, he seemed to forget how engage in arm-to-arm combat, fell asleep during an important task, and could barely keep up during a run. For many fans, this felt like a betrayal of a beloved character we knew.

Often, funny characters are sacrificed to promote a new character. Particularly as a series progresses, instead of letting the newbie gain popularity naturally, they force their merits by downgrading an established character.

You might be wondering, what’s the point of all this? Well, a lot of fans care when their favorite character changes drastically, especially not in a positive way. There’s a difference between a character who can be funny or has select silly/stupid moments, and one who becomes a caricature. We build fandoms our these characters. We invest hours and time, energy and love into writing about them, drawing, and discussing them. Of course it matters when it feels like that same character has been mistreated and disrespected.

I wish that before writers decide to go for the easy laugh, for the stupid joke, for the ridiculous, that they consider the impact on the character and show. It not only destroys your audience’s trust, but also makes it unbelievable when the character is given any content of substance.

[doctorwhoisadhd]

[...] In this episode, the main character, Jack Harkness, has a standoff with an alien in the Torchwood base (the Hub); during this scene, she uses a seemingly random prop in order to successfully escape the Hub, essentially using it as a hostage. For reasons unknown to the audience at the time of the episode's broadcast (but that would later be explained), Jack seems to care about the prop — a disembodied hand in a jar — an inordinate amount, choosing to ensure its safety when the jar is smashed rather than prevent the alien from escaping. However, a clue to the true meaning of the mystery hand[...]

sections of your real academic research paper that will make you seem VERY normal and regular. christ alive.

[anonbinaryweirdo]

,y pookei 💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞

[live-from-flaturn]

In an unfortunate pattern among international musicians, the nuances behind their more emotionally moving lyrics are often dumbed down or simplified when these songs are translated to English. Two prominent examples are Jeff Satur's "Dum Dum" and O-Zone's "Dragostea Din-Tei". Why is this such a common occurrence, and who makes these translation decisions in the long run? In this essay I will...

[brithombar]

aloy should have a scar on her throat from the proving

[alysscoven]

DID YOU THINK I WOULD HAVE DARK HAIR

[slimepuppied]

thinking about the romangerri funeral scene and how badly i wanted it, how i knew she was gonna touch him, how i knew she was sat behind him to be support, but how i also know it doesn't fit. ( it does, it could, it can in that gerri could reach out and be kind because she sees him in pain, and she is human and she is capable of that kindness. "it's a pretty lie." ) but it doesn't work in their dynamic, because gerri doesn't bullshit him, she's the one person who doesn't bullshit him, and she isn't going to start now just because she sees him hurting --

[gr33kgod]

Black mirror works best as a Sci-fi show. It’s literally why the show is even called ‘black mirror’ in the first place. When our phones are off we’re basically just holding a small rectangle that you can see yourself in. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy the social commentary and the swanky demon, but this show’s roots are the possibly that something like that could happen. And as far as I’m concerned werewolves don’t exist.

Magic just ruins what makes this show so special.