#it's about family

[juanarc-thethird]

Put on your seatbelt.

Inside Jaune's car.

Neptune: The GPS says we will arrive in 30 minutes.

Jaune: *Serious* Not on my watch.

Sun: *In the back seat, confuse* What do you mean "Not on my watch"?

Jaune: 30 minutes is not the time we need to get there, it's the time we need to beat.

Neptune: *Worry*What do you mean "the time we need to beat"?

Sun: *Worry* I'm not in a hurry.

Jaune: *Wearing a white tank top* It's not about hurry, it's about family.

Neptune: When did you change shirt?!

Sun: *Panic* Oh no, I'm getting out of here.

Jaune: FAMILY!! *He hits the gas before anyone gets out.*

Neptune/Sun: AAAAAH!!!!

[marvelling-at-marvel-blog]

I finally watched Ted Lasso, I held off so long because....well I don't like soccer. I am an AFL (Australian Football fan) through and through and can't get into to other sports but I was convinced by friends and random clips I saw.

I just fell completely in love with this show. It is not perfect and has it slumps ...but it so funny, smart, heartwarming, has fantastic charachters (one of the few shows where I liked almost everyone) and has a message and theme run through out the series woth the ability to make great callbacks. This show was at its best when it was an ensemble show. In the locker rooms, with the fans. With family.

But the two things I truly loved about it is

1. It nailed what it is like to be a fan. All the scenes of the crowds, the locals at the bar, the 3 boys. Heck, even the love and hate relationship the fans have with the coach and players. They nailed showing how a football team can be a family and a community. The show made me care if Richmond win or lose. That's why I love my football and my team. For the 4 quarters of my game we are all family, it's about the love of the game and the highs and lows. Ted Lasso did this fantastically

2. This show had one of the best character redemptions and growth arcs I have seen in a show in a long while. Watching Jamie Tartt grow throughout the seasons was amazing. He went from my least favourite character to my favourite. And all through this, he grew and worked on himself, in what felt like a really honest way. I could watch him for hours. Ted Lasso and Phil Dunster should be incredibly proud of what they created. He was portrayed so incredibly well.

I also aspire to be Roy Kent.

I also still do not understand the offside rule. I did learn what relegation meant in this sport. So learning at least.

[hurremsultanns]

You have Hürrem, Anna Jagiellon (the princess from her homeland), Afife (her adoptive mother), Mihrimah (her daughter) and Nurbanu (her daughter-in-law).

This feels very significant.

[yuukicyan]

I don't have new year's resolutions because I have no concept of time. But I do have a new tat 🖤

[nebulouscoffee]

GIRL HELP the siskoshir thing I just experimentally started writing has now crossed 30,000 words... wHAT

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Who are the bad guys in Indiana Jones 5 gonna be?

1 and 3 had Nazis, 2 had an Indian warlord, 4 had Soviets, so I was convinced that 5 would be about the Viet Cong or the Cultural Revolution or Kim Il-Sung's North Korea, set somewhere in east Asia for sure, but recent developments imply it'll be set at least in part in the United States during the summer of 69. There's a chase scene through the Apollo 11 ticker tape parade in New York, and much of the cast is "German" (one Dane, one German, and one Dutchman; in Hollywood that means they're all interchangeably German)

You know what, as I was typing that I realized it'll probably be set in Apartheid South Africa. One of the actresses is Guyanese-American; there's no telling where her character is from by that fact alone, but the presence of all the Germanic actors has changed my mind. They're not German, they're actually Dutch. They're Afrikaners. Mads Mikkelsen is gonna play the owner of a blood diamond mine (just like Elon Musk's dad, no really, look it up), and he'll be searching for the Mystical Magical Unobtainable Emerald of M'Ghuffan which will grant him unlimited powers, and Indy has to return it to its people like the stones in Temple of Doom.

Conservatives will attack the movie as woke propaganda for saying racism is bad, but it'll be handled in that dumb tone deaf Disney way which is designed to appeal predominantly to white liberals and very few others. It's a schlocky popcorn movie, but everyone involved is gonna act like it has an Very Important Message™, "because really, it's about family, and that's what's so powerful about it." And Indy's goddaughter (presumably Sallah's daughter, because they're bringing him back too and it wouldn't make sense for her to be old dead Marcus Brody's) will inherit his mantle at the end, putting on his hat and embarking on her own adventures with this exact energy, but unironically:

It'll be insincere Disney pandering and conservatives will freak out even more about it. It could be done well, but it won't be. The focus groups won't let it. Kathleen Kennedy won't let it. Disney is physically incapable of letting it. Goddaughter Jones isn't gonna be a badass like Marion Ravenwood, she's gonna be a Strong Female Character™ like every Marvel heroine.

I haven't seen this movie, but I feel like I've seen it a million times.

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Me: I'm going to rewatch Terra Nova so I can see if I can set a good pace for rewatching my favorite shows.

Me roughly ten minutes in: Oh right. Terra Nova is actually my favorite show of all time.

[bookslutskye]

so i recently got top surgery and this was on my discharge papers after a mild complication

[crow-caller]

as a child there's nothing cooler than a kid who gets subjected to evil experiments and gains special abilities. it's even cooler if these abilities also cause unfathomable suffering to use/against others. children love stories like this.

[nymphoutofwater]

And why? Cultural norms? Personal schedule? “Cause I’m always late to everything”?

Bonus points: Region and/or ethnicity?

[sillyguy-supreme]

white americans when you tell them that the idea of climate change as an impending disaster is a reductive first world perspective because it’s a tangible reality for many in the global south already:

[noelledeltarune]

EVERY SINGLE DAY there are MILLIONS of characters in their late 20s who get falsely accused of being father figures to teenagers when in reality the description of "weird older cousin" or "step-sibling that moved out before you were born" is 1000000x more apt

[tigerjpg]

nothing makes me go "ooooh we are NOT the same" quite like reading some post about how people talk with their parents about their interests. what do you mean you told your father about stevebucky. what do you mean he asked further questions

[bardofavon]

not to be controversial bc I know this is like…not in line with shifting opinions on fanfic comment culture but if there’s a glaring typo in my work I will NOT be offended by pointing it out. if ao3 fucks up the formatting…I will also not be offended by having this pointed out…

‘looking forward to the next update’ and ‘I hope you update soon!’ are different vibes than a demand, and should be read in good faith because a reader is finding their way to tell you how much they love it. I will not be mad at this.

‘I don’t usually like this ship but this fic made me feel something’ is also incredibly high praise. I’m not going to get mad at this.

even ‘I love this fic but I’m curious about why you made [x] choice’ is just another way a reader is engaging in and putting thought into your work.

I just feel like a lot of authors take any comment that’s not perfectly articulated glowing praise in the exact manner they’re hoping to receive it in bad faith.

fic engagement has been dropping across the board over the last several years, and yes it’s frustrating but it isn’t as though I can’t see how it happens. comment anxiety can be a real thing. the last thing anyone wants to do is offend an author they love, and that means sometimes people default to silence.

idk where I’m going with this I guess aside from saying unless a comment is outright attacking me I’m never going to get mad at it, and I think a lot of authors should feel the same way. ESPECIALLY TYPOS PLZ GOD POINT OUT MY TYPOS.

[goaheadandgetinthebog]

Several videos (independently) start circulating on the internet of the Waynes info dumping.

Bruce - the role of railways in westward expansion in the 1890s

Dick - clown eggs

Jason - tb and the New England vampires of the late 19th century, with reference to vampire literature

Cass - Paris sewer system

Tim - comparison of different camera lenses from different manufacturers, with model numbers

Duke - anti homeless architecture and how to remove it

Damian - cat declawing

After all this, a new meme forms.

'You must be this autistic to get adopted by Bruce Wayne.'

[valtsv]

are we still doing this because i have a late submission