#it feels like im grasping at straws

[kiisuuumii]

who else is up begging the universe for answers

[rambling-fool]

Ok so about siffrins craft. Also, spoilers.

At the beginning of the game it's just piercing. Their natural state. Piercing and speed.

Then as the timeloop begins, they gain more crafts. At first, more scissor craft. Good and normal. The second ability they gain is healing. Wait, what? Isn't that miras job?

Well, I think they feel bad about being unable to help their friends directly, rather just through their enemies, so they remedy this.

Then, they learn protective craft. The timeloops allow them to protect their friends, to keep them close. Forever. They have to protect them.

Then, he gains rose-printed glasses. These timeloops are a good thing, after all! It's fine! Everything is fine! Nothing to worry about! They're just being optimistic!

Regenerade. Not much to say there. More healing.

Then, they lose their rose printed glasses. These timeloops are a curse. He's trapped here. He's trapped here, repeating the same lines over and over and over. The timeloops, they tear you apart.

Stars, this is getting exhausting. Slice, tear your apart, regenerade, turn it up. He hits rock bottom. Even their protective craft is painful to use now.

Tired. (Just attack.)

[iliketowritebutiminsanelystupid]

So i finally finished watching ep 115 of Riptide and uhhh so like I can finally get this thought off my chest. A little theory if you will.

Edyn Tidestrider was replaced by a doppelganger, right? Like? If I remember correctly she was so nervous about talking to Gillion in the sea bar when they first found each other because she thought they were being watched(? it's been a while). And then the next time we hear from her it's Chip spying on her talking to a navy soldier and then she cuts all contact because she's doing something dangerous? She's either in the process of being replaced by a doppelganger or already has been. RIGHT? LIKE. Jay's grandmother's logs say that several targets have already been successfully replaced, what's the point of telling the pcs and US that people have been getting replaced by doppelgangers if someone important isn't a doppelganger? I think it's Edyn. I think Edyn's been replaced and the real Edyn is either dead, captured, or on the run. I've always felt Edyn was suspicious so maybe I'm just looking for reasons to validate that but like... doppelganger Edyn... As long as we find out what Edyn's been up to eventually I don't really care what it is lmao but it's still an interesting thought.

[freaky-flawless]

Well...damn.

I finally watched The Phantom of the Opera, and now I have to grapple with how much Operetta makes absolutely no sense.

Like I'm wracking my brain, and the only conclusion I've come to is that she'd make sense if she wasn't a ghost at all, but a siren.

Maybe after years of being cast out by his fellow humans, Erik finds refuge in the monster world which welcomes him with open arms, and also gives him the chance for a new start.

And given his love of opera, he falls in love with a siren and they have a child together. Thusly making Operetta half human, half siren.

This way, she can keep her hypnotizing voice, since she sure as hell wouldn't have gotten it from Erik.

[robotsafari]

a mind palace’s (unasked for) renovations [DO NOT TAG AS SHIP]

bonus under the cut:

white mushroom more like “butlershroom.”

anyway. yep! my headcanon is that the mushroom series of heartless were essentially like early versions of ansem. experiments to see if creating a heartless with a will of its own were even possible. (the mushrooms just wanna play charades and go on nice walks! they wont steal your heart because their instincts tell em’ to! they’ll only snatch it if they feel like it <3) how can you make an “immortal” successor if they cant even understand the research you left for them? so thats why they were created!

[paranormaljones]

no but see the thing is HE GOES THRIFTING. HE WEARS 90s JEANS AND TIES HIS HAIR BACK WITH BANDANAS. HE WEAR DOCS (i'm actually not sure if they're docs because i've never had docs but they look like docs). HE HAS LONG HAIR AND A SOFT VOICE. HE LOOKS LIKE A DREAM.

DID YOU HEAR ME WHEN I SAID THAT HE GOES THRIFTING‼️

[spidermanifested]

okay talking abiut really good tv shows aside. I really am still very confused about how. and i know this topic has been run into the ground at this point but. there seems to have developed a prevalent online-lgbt belief that "twink" describes only the smallest thinnest most petite and delicate body type imaginable and they cant have even the slightest hint of musculature or it doesnt count. Like its the equal but opposite counterpart to "this 4%-body-fat waxed-chest beefcake is such a bear" to me. What do you mean a twink cant have pecs. where am i

[sibylsleaves]

I really like the idea of some kind of injury/illness being the new lifestyle change that Ryan is talking about, because honestly I have no other idea what it could be. Sidenote: I know you're not thinking he's getting a queer realization this season (honestly rn I'm not either, its just too much to cram into 3 episodes) but do you think we might get one next season?

answering these together because even though i know queer realization & feelings realization (which i believe is what the second anon is referring to) are different things i feel like they're obviously connected and my answer is kind of the same for both of them. so.

I've never been the person who's 100% sure they are going to make Buddie canonically romantic and that's still true now. (Actually the scene that made me a believer didn't happen until season 6...for some reason it was the graveyard scene, although really it was the way the show KEPT emphasizing Eddie and Buck's relationship throughout 6b. The graveyard scene just felt incredibly pointed at the end of like 3 straight episodes of grief/tenderness/flirtiness/etc).

Did getting canon confirmation of Bi Buck change my opinion? Of course. But it moved me from basically thinking there was very little chance to thinking there's maybe a 50% chance. I don't necessarily think that just because we have Bi Buck means we're definitely for sure no doubt about it getting Buddie. Do I want that? yes, obviously.

I think where I'm at now is hopeful that it is coming next season--and by "it" i mean any truly unambiguous indication that Buck and Eddie have romantic feelings for one another (whether or not they actually get together, which I think they could potentially draw out a bit longer).

Where I'm also at is that if they don't do that next season, I'm not sure it's happening at all. Confirming Buck as bi is, imo, THE biggest catalyst they have toward turning Eddie and Buck's relationship romantic. And the fact of the matter is we (and they) don't know how many seasons we're getting after season 8 so if they do want to do it, they might as well do it now (and by now I mean next season).

I believe Tim when he says that he doesn't plan storylines out super far in advance. So I do believe that he may not even know for sure whether they are going to go down that road or not.

What I also know is that he loves Buck and Eddie and their dynamic and so if nothing else I trust him and the other writers to continue writing that relationship with the care and love and nuance that made me into a Buddie shipper to begin with. I don't need them to be canonically romantically together in order to enjoy the show or enjoy the ship. Obviously, I would love it if they did and I think it would be a great storytelling choice to shake up one of the main dynamics in the cast. It would give them a lot of new material and story to explore, which, after eight seasons, they kind of desperately need, given how repetitive/dead-ended/just plain ABSURD some of the storylines have felt in recent seasons.

At the end of the day I do think Tim/the writers are going to do whatever it is they want to do, and whatever they think is right for the story. As a creator I respect that, even if I might not agree about what the right thing for the story is.

[spideyhexx]

need to tie his tie for him in the morning before he goes to work

im already characterizing the character without knowing exactly what they’re doing with said character but he can tie a tie but he’s still clumsy with it so you do it for him all the time

[kitthew]

genealogy is suuuuuch a boring and confusing and stressful hobby until all of a sudden u find something that makes soooooo much sense and all the dumb weird pieces start fitting together and u feel like ur meeting urself for the very first time!

[yardikins]

My brain isn’t functioning properly rn so this probably makes *zero* sense but I just need to type this out I feel like im going insane

I’m aware this post is just me incoherently rambling about Baylan, Shin and Ragnar but it’s in my head and I need it out of there so that I can sleep, it is currently 1am

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Okay we all know Baylan and Shin are named after the wolves in Norse mythology that chase the sun and moon, Sköll and Hati, thats an established fact in the fandom. But let’s dive a little deeper into the legend

According to everything that I’ve read, Sköll and Hati chase the chariots of the sun and moon across the sky, and when they eventually catch the celestial bodies, that will trigger the Ragnarök, the end of times.

What’s getting me here is the name of the apocalypse that the wolves will start when they catch the sun and moon. The Ragnarök.

…Ragnar.

There’s a character named Ragnar in The Mandalorian. Ragnar Vizsla, Paz Vizsla’s adopted son, introduced in season three

I- as far as I can tell, everything Filoni does with characters means something. Every naming choice, line of dialogue, means something. But what does this mean- if anything

If I remember correctly too, Ahsoka takes place at the same time Mandalorian S3 is happening, so im sitting here thinking about the two characters named after the wolves that start the Ragnarök and the child with a name two letters away from being Ragnarök, all being introduced within the exact same time period

All three characters clearly have bigger roles to play in future seasons of their respective shows and the upcoming Mandoverse movie, but are those roles gonna be. Connected??

This is sending me down a spiral of incoherent Star Wars thoughts and I’m subjecting everyone else to it cause like- has anyone else thought of this, does this even make sense

I have so many more thoughts about this but I’m gonna shush and not say any more of them, not rn at least. Future post.

[kingtankgirl]

am having an incredibly emotionally tumultuous day. the epic highs and lows of mundane life when u have a severe mood disorder

[vanlegion]

You know, I don't think it would have been very difficult to have S19 be what it will be, and keep S15-17 canon. (S18 still gets cut, if what I read about it was true [since i've only seen the first three episodes])

Like the way I see it, they could start off 19 with the Staff of Charon fight... but like say in the corner, 6 months ago, or however long it would be. They have the epic fight, they win, the Meta suit goes inert and there's some sadness finding out Church is fully gone, then they party to celebrate the planets freedom... then we jump to present day. That's literally how they set up seasons 9 and 10 There could be some kind of background chatter or bullshit banter going on about how Tucker not begin able to find the Meta helmet because he used the suit to fool the cyclopes. (During this fight he distinctly said "Man I wish I had my other suit!") Grif could find out what the message from Locus was that he never opened to read. They could find out what was going down on Chorus that the Luttenits alluded to. Maybe something weird with comm signals on Chorus? Maybe people are going missing? Maybe reports of minor crime? What if Locus was saying he intercepted a message about some Pirates who raided Iris while everyone was gone? Explains why The Meta helmet is missing. All of these minor background lead ins. And then the main start up of the season, main conflict, things progress. But you know what would be truly a Divergence of Expectations? That this new Meta, has now become the personal foe of all of Red Team, because not only did those three toss him off a cliff with a fucking car attached, but also because maybe, just maybe, it's not Tucker under that gear. Maybe it's someone who has a personal vendetta against Tucker and Simmons . . . being as it was those two who blew him off the platform into the abyss.

[kaoharu]

i had a rlly awesome post abt how and why me against myself + i know who i am were connected to rnpn but i completely forgot im so mad

[highlifeboat]

Melony is insecure transmasc or transman? You seem to be using those interchangeably :p

Transmasc.

I don't even know if transmasc would be right.

But I think her wanting to socially trasition to using male and female pronouns interchangeably still counts as transmasc.

Like, it isn't exactly what I'm going for, because Mel doesn't wanna physically transition, and doesn't really have the dysphoria or anything, so it kind of takes away that whole... aspect of what I want. But still leaves the worry of telling people.

So it's something, at least.

[pepprs]

ok actually yeah. i really need to do dishes and go to bed and not stay up late mentalillnessposting a little too viscerally on tumblr the night before i facilitate a workshop in front of the literal president of the university and the vp of my division (LOL about that btw. actively shitting my pants.) but oh my GOD. so saying goodbye to lia was actually fine in the moment. neither of us cried and we talked about all the ways we’ll still be in each others lives and reasons we’ll have to interact in the near future. and she gave me an extremely heartfelt thoughtful gift and we left on a very hopeful note and i felt better and content bc there’s still the rest-of-life and we’ll see each other there. but like an hour before that as i mentioned i was HYSTERICALLY sobbing. in full view of people i know AND people i don’t. and i just sat there and sobbed while everything carried on around me. everything carried on around me!!! and i feel like im about to sob again thinking about it.