#it was a tactical decision

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

Sorry if this is weird/annoying but I keep thinking about the twerk off competition and how Minos is a lot thinner than people usually draw him and I don't think his ass would be that good because of it. You'd think the fact he's the king of lust would give him an advantage but he wasn't sent to hell FOR being lustful he just works there. Gabriel has spent his entire life repressed and would struggle to twerk because hes embarrassed. Sisyphus has a fat ass and is confident in this essay I will-

You’re right, but I must grade your opening statement here

We don’t really know why Minos was in hell. Everyone liked him so he wasn’t in there for being a shithead. Maybe he did just bust it down too hard. A case of “You Smoke Too Tough. Your Swag Too Different. Your Bitch Is Too Bad. They’ll Kill You” it seems. Tragic..

V1 has a $5 webcam for an eye we can’t really be judging that too hard but.. he does appear to be less caked up than you’d expect. Maybe he should lose the shorts for an accurate measurement. What? Who said that-

Anyway. Sisyphus does win you are correct you get a B+ on your essay <3

[anghraine]

I know that Boromir is explicitly compared to King Eärnur and I know why, but my baseless personal headcanon is that he's not that much of a fan of a king who got himself killed in tactically asinine circumstances rather than prioritizing his people, particularly when the end result of Eärnur's life choices is Boromir himself carrying the weight of protecting Gondor. Boromir's true icon is Tar-Telperiën, the proud unmarried queen who firmly maintained Númenórean autonomy and priorities, but who was the actual ruler when Númenórean forces first showed up on the coast of Lindon to save the Elves and kick Sauron back to Mordor.

The line about Boromir only being interested in lore when it came to military things—well, kicking Sauron's ass out of all of Eriador and forcing him to desperately flee counts as military lore! I imagine that Boromir knows and loves that story down to the most granular tactical details recorded. Whenever some hidebound loremaster goes on about Tar-Telperiën's reign being a period of total disengagement from Middle-earth's problems while Númenor only interceded under Tar-Minastir, Boromir goes from zzzzzz to "well AKSHUALLY" in about a quarter second.

(This is also aro-ace leadership solidarity in my mind, but mostly because Boromir thinks Telperiën's successful navigation of bullshit politics without marrying, while finding time to orchestrate the defeat of Sauron's armies, is awesome.)

[carlyraejepsans]

One thing I think people forget is that sans probably wouldn’t talk about missing his home and never being able to go back and giving up unless he absolutely felt he had to

with frisk he’s pretty sure that’s the time traveler that could very well end the entire world. He’s trying to reason with em as a someone he’s hoping could be a friend at that point because he’d really rather not have that happen

In geno is IS the end of the world and he’s hoping you’ll realize this is stupid and cruel and reset. It’s not like he’d have this conversation on a random Tuesday with papyrus

yeah agreed, sans goes out of his way to not talk to/with papyrus about their life before the underground. remember the newsletter q&a? (this is more a theory, but judging from their behavior i personally think papyrus is an amnesiac/sans thinks he is, and he's trying to spare him the grief of remembering).

his memories and mementos are stored behind his house for a reason, he's had his realization that he'll never go back already: there's no sense in reopening that wound again if he has an option to avoid the topic.

[samstronomy]

CHAT I COOKED?????

[danyseastar]

the parallels between aegon and rhaenyra this episode really do contextualize how paramount it is to safe-guard figure heads during times of war.

we have aegon begging, pleading to be let out onto the battlefield, yet being denied due to the dangers only being held slightly at bay. how criston tells him he’s too important, how alicent tells him to sit and do nothing. we have rhaenyra announcing upon her arrival from the sept that she will answer lord staunton’s call for aid, that she will leave immediately to help them. aegon refuses to listen and see reason behind why no one wants him actively fighting, rhaenyra heeds her council’s words on the opposite, specifically rhaenys’ and jacaerys’, and allows rhaenys to go in her stead. two sides of a mirror, each with different outcomes.

a brash and egotistical decision leaves aegon burnt beyond recognition, betrayed by his closest blood in said brother’s pursuit of the throne he covets. we have a logical and cautious decision which still ultimately ends in tragedy, yes, but the black’s cause still has meaning behind it; rhaenys’ sacrifice will not be in vain, unlike aegon now being bedridden for the foreseeable future, unable to rule. this obviously puts a damper on the green’s own pursuits.

[paristandard]

still on my silmarillion kick and back on my ‘recreating napoleon paintings’ kick here’s the whole Formenos crew probably right after taking the Oath

[geek-antic]

10 outta 10 skywarp good first choice

[grey-sides]

A lot of people like to make Charles able-bodied which is almost certainly a product of First Class and his bad decisions in DOFP. But.

I personally would like to give a TED talk about what I think sex post-disability would look like for him.

[margridarnauds]

My overall impression: I can understand the practical reasons for keeping the debate (mostly) civil, especially as a means of getting to people who are still undecided/on the fence, but I can't really consider it a victory when we're discussing people's lives. I give Walz credit for when he did press on issues, particularly school shootings, the demonization of undocumented immigrants, and reproductive rights, but...I still kind of find myself disappointed. I really feel like the Democratic side should have pressed more on the offensive, especially since we're discussing people's lives. I agree, keep a cool head, don't let anger distract you from functioning, but I don't really know if I consider civility to be the ultimate goal here.

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

On the subject of gotham county line and batman noel and so on and so forth it’s pretty frustrating (from a watsonian pov) that anytime Bruce hallucinates Jason being loving/ caring/helpful/compassionate towards him it’s always as robin and never as his current self

[a-larry-retrospective-blog]

The thing that gets me, even 10+ years down the line, is that EVEN IF Harry and Louis were weirded out by people shipping them (which IS fair, but also: I think the blame can be shared 50/50 between fandom and pr people) to the point where it "ruined their friendship", we simply shouldn't have been able to notice it.

Like, that's the WHOLE POINT of having people who media train you and pr people: to present a nice image to the public. And 1D's image, like EVERY boyband out there, revolved around thinking the boys were all close, they were happy to be together forever. The reason people were so blindsided by Zayn leaving the band is that they had to pretend everything was fine and dandy even when it wasn't, and the public bought it.

I'm not saying that's a good thing, I'm not saying I'm happy with it, I'm saying that's the reason pr people and managements and every other behind the scenes part of the industry even EXISTS: to smooth out the wrinkles of the image presented to us. Boybands are supposed to be a UNITED FRONT. We as the public are not supposed to know about the skirmishes boys get into, because people would not root for a band where they know there's infighting.

If H&L were actually barely speaking during all those Years (and that's the thing that gets me, it was genuinely YEARS, not like, a bad week), as management their job should have been to force them into a Get Along Shirt and have them actually be professional and act like they did not have disagreements. It seriously makes NO SENSE to me after all these years that there were span of Months of interviews in which they barely interacted with each other and acted like the other one didn't exist, because if it was actually them not wanting to speak to each other, a good (by this I mean somewhat professional, not morally good) management would have said "suck it up and pretend you're still friends". That was their job! I cannot stress enough how this was PRECISELY a job for pr people! And they didn't do it!

So either they were so bad at their job they didn't even TRY to fix the public perception of the band, or having them pretending the other didn't exist was the best outcome. Which. You see how insanely suspicious that was? Like, even without taking into account whatever weird glances they threw at people in the crowd or the images of them hesitating to touch each other, the fact that the mainstream narrative was THIS and no one DARED to put a patch on it is insane in and of itself. It's honestly the dumbest thing whoever was in charge ever did for these boys' image

[justheretobreakthings]

I can't even think of anything funny to say about this ad from my Facebook feed, like what else could I possibly add

[mantisgodsart]

so very small Worm (Wildbow), Bug Fables Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Skitter | Weaver | Taylor Hebert, Post-GM, Transmigration, Spiders, Bugs & Insects, Canon-Typical Violence

Taylor Hebert wakes up in the middle of a grassy field with an aching head, a massive blank in her memory, and approximately four more limbs than she remembers having. Approximately, of course, because one of her original four limbs appeared to be gone, and she wasn't sure how to qualify an entire abdomen suddenly spawning off of her backside. Something ingrained deeply into her skull told her she should be blaming someone, but she couldn't quite remember who.

Author's Note: Bugtober, Day 19 - Mimic. We think that Taylor would be a mimic spider if we swapped her over to BF. We have no major justification for this, but we are open to suggestions if anyone has a better idea, seeing as it's been nearly three years (we think) since we've read Worm and there are likely people on this website who are not operating on three years of character drift.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Something about this interaction between Harry & Janeway - specifically Janeway but it's notable that Harry's the one listening because I think, say, Chakotay or B'Elanna might push back against the idolization of this 'it was different back in those days' way of thinking.

[kylejsugarman]

sorry but au squared is crazy because yes walt did in fact poison baby with lily of the valley for the purposes of getting jesse back on his side and wrangling back control of the meth empire, but that doesn't mean he Liked doing it. that doesnt mean he didnt run and re-run his math over and over again to make sure he wasnt giving her a lethal dose or stare regretfully at her in the days before the poisoning or pet her little head with sincere concern and relief once she was cleared for discharge from the hospital. i know no one asked but i cannot stop thinking abt this!!!!!!

[tetrafelino]

Using tu in my presentation to the teacher who says it's fine to vosear but still cringes whenever I do it 📈📈📈