#jest talks

[deprivedmusicaljunkie]

yeah i’m taking hozier away from you guys until you learn how to treat him properly

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

You guys ever think about the implications of the dca's unmoving faceplate?

I don't know exactly what material it's made of, but I'd assume metal or plastic or a similar unyielding substance. There probably aren't any active sensors there, besides something light-sensitive to allow for the color-swap when switching between Sun and Moon - otherwise, I doubt any further complications would be added to their design, considering Fazco's determination not to waste a single penny.

But think about it - obviously, by that logic, Sun and Moon can't feel their face. If you were to cup their cheeks and hold either side of their faceplate, they wouldn't understand the feeling you're trying to convey.

They'd feel the pressure, sure - but nothing else, nothing tangible. There is no warmth that passes from your palm to their stylized cheek, no soft touch or careful sincerity; only an empty number calculated by the uptick of an empty, unfeeling machine which knows the meaning of the gesture only through the understanding that others have.

Even so, it cannot convey its gratitude; its plastic smile does not bend to the will of emotional facsimiles. Its eyes cannot crinkle with mirth. It can only let out a garbled, artificial expression of gratitude, processed by a microchip the size of the tip of its cold fingers, sent through an electrical current to create a wavelength of sound that you can process - a mere echo of what you send from your heart to their hollow chest cavity.

[mandareeboo]

If I have ANY complaints about Gravity Falls, it's that we didn't get a Wendy episode because the crew were afraid of "ruining her coolness".

She's sixteen. She's stressed constantly. Her best friends are children. Don't buy into the hype: ruin the child cowards

[vaguely-concerned]

I love getting to hear spite's comments on other spirits and magic in general. like YES my excellent little guy give me the inside scoop here I am so down for this hot goss every time girl tell me everything!!! (also the fact that spite is clearly pretty small fry as spirits go but has such potent scrappy 'HEY hey ASSHOLE yeah that's right down here pal eyes on me anyway FUCK you I'm walkin' here!!!!' energy at every turn is a gift and one I am so grateful to get to receive. a small terrier of the spirit world so ready to square up to anyone and anything right up to the dread wolf himself at the slightest provocation. I love you spite. lucanis' fight response really seceded from his soul in protest after being repressed and disrespected for like 35 years and formed the best weirdest little dude constantly going (ง •̀_•́)ง huh)

[rainbyte]

Top ten would be REALLY funny friends highkey

[sunshinereani]

look at my scientists bro, we're never getting that cure

[hearthomelesbian]

first murim is so key to my understanding of yoo joonghyuk. because the thing is that she spent a really long time in the second round just hanging around breaking the sky sword saint. doing whatever she asked, even when it ended up with her being beaten or shaved bald or it was a useless task altogether or all of the above. and in the 'dumplings made by others' side story, they say that yjh didn't even need to stick around to learn breaking the sky swordsmanship! that she learnt it basically immediately!! so all of that being towards the purpose of learning breaking the sky swordsmanship is just a more practical excuse for the emotional root of it all (yjh loves logical guises. for example: "i'm going to the demon realm because i don't like people impersonating me and there are good hidden items, and NOT to save kim dokja or anything").

but the truth is that btsss gave yoo joonghyuk a birthday. her signature sword form. the startings of transcendence. a sense of belonging somewhere, of home, which is something she so desperately searches for and wants throughout all of orv. yoo joonghyuk isn't shown to be particularly sentimental, but when she comes back to the first murim, even kim dokja can tell she's nostalgic. both of the swords she uses for the majority of main story (breaking the sky sword and black heavenly demon sword) are murim swords. her favourite food is from the first murim.

the reason yoo joonghyuk doesn't want to go back to the first murim is because losing all of that in the second turn is something incredibly tender and raw for her and she doesn't want to think about it!! she doesn't want to face btsss after she watched her die! after she failed to save her!! ("have you protected all that you wanted to protect?") she doesn't want to face a btsss that doesn't remember her!!

(as an aside: i think it is incredibly telling that the only food we see yjh eat that is made by another person is those dumplings. its no surprise that in a story so focused on connecting with others, food is symbolic when it comes to connection - multiple times lines are drawn between the two, but what comes to mind in particular for me is kim dokja, lonely and hungry in his tiny apartment, eating while reading twsa; and yoo joonghyuk, alone in space and missing her companions, eating while reading orv. yoo joonghyuk's refusal to eat food made by others is, in part, symbolic of her refusal to truly connect to others due to the pain of that connection. but she will still eat murim dumplings!)

it is compelling to me that while yoo joonghyuk seems determined to put any past connections behind her, she isnt entirely capable of it once those past connections are in eyeshot. she tells kim dokja just to kill lee seolhwa, and then when they're shopping together yoo joonghyuk stands in front of her in a crowd to stop her from getting knocked around, and takes medicine without complaint once she's told it's at lee seolhwa's request. she keeps yoo mia at arms length but then feeds her like a baby bird and gives her affection. she tries, multiple times, to avoid seeing breaking the sky sword saint, and then shares memories and vulnerabilities with her anyway. she is one of the only people (if not the only person) that yoo joonghyuk shares her memories of the previous turn with. she is one of the only people yjh is emotionally vulnerable with. she is the only person yoo joonghyuk uses honorifics for (excluding the odd affectionate "mia-yah"). she takes care of yoo joonghyuk. she's her master! i am losing the plot but you understand

[oswaldthatendswald]

I hear sometimes people saying things like "I want a partner but I don't want to hide my fanfiction habits so I guess I'll stay single" and I always want to be like "no... there is a better world... date someone who will write thousands of words of self-insert fanfiction with you... find the ones who will be cringe on main with you..."

[spiribia]

glinda isn't even a beloved popular girl in the books. she is high society but not enough for the other high society girls she tries to befriend who in turn try to make a fool out of her using elphaba until glinda is like Enough i can't believe how shallow and cruel you people are. from now on I'm openly friends with elphaba & elphaba is like I'm building a pipe bomb & glinda is like WHAT

[verysmallcyborg]

pirate au fornax is so handsome, and for what!!!! (for me to spin the camera around them at startling speeds)

[longagoitwastuesday]

This is about Hindley:

«After a short suspense it was opened by a tall, gaunt man, without neckerchief, and otherwise extremely slovenly; his features were lost in masses of shaggy hair that hung on his shoulders; and his eyes, too, were like a ghostly Catherine’s, with all their beauty annihilated».

And this is about Heathcliff:

«a tall man dressed in dark clothes, with dark face and hair. He leant against the side, and held his fingers on the latch, as if intending to open for himself. “Who can it be?” I thought. “Mr. Earnshaw?”»

Heathcliff is the character most often described as tall (and altogether big), with Hindley also being described as tall, as well as Linton, Heathcliff’s son, being said he was tall for his age (which is fitting).

I find so juicy that Heathcliff and Hindley look somewhat alike, at least structure-wise, enough to make Nelly think for one moment Heathcliff could have been him, and scratch the idea because no, that's not Hindley's voice. You resemble the man who destroyed you. It goes both ways. His child looks like his sister. One could think it was her child instead. A stranger will think the boy your son. You'll smile at the irony.

[vaguely-concerned]

bunter keeping peter from being swallowed up by an evil bog with the kind of hysterical strength otherwise only known by mothers deadlifting cars to save their tender babes is something that can actually be so personal

[darth-grips]

has anyone done this for star wars yet?

anyway. I'm right.

[charl0ttan]

have you read infinite jest? if so what's your favorite scene? i've reread the tucson arizona chapter so many times because it's such a raw depiction of the sort of not quite neglect not quite abuse that vicarious parenting causes. say what you want about dfw himself but he could portray characters with a level of realism thats hard to find elsewhere

yassss im on like page 250 :3 cant really remember any particular scene but madame psychosis stands out to me. also i like the rehab house stuff. but idk its honestly been like a couple years since i really read it a lot 😭 the book hopperrrr

[pinkocowboy]

“They have shifted into a sexual mode. Her lids flutter; his close. There's a concentrated tactile languor. She is left-handed. It is not about consolation. They start the thing with each other's buttons. It is not about conquest or forced capture. It is not about glands or instincts or the split-second shiver and clench of leaving yourself; nor about love or about whose love you deep-down desire, by whom you feel betrayed. Not and never love, which kills what needs it. It feels to the punter rather to be about hope, an immense, wide-as-the-sky hope of finding a something in each Subject's fluttering face, a something the same that will propitiate hope, somehow, pay its tribute, the need to be assured that for a moment he has her, now has won her as if from someone or something else, something other than he, but that he has her and is what she sees and all she sees, that it is not conquest but surrender, that he is both offense and defense…”

[crispycrunchers]

Dipper and Mabel's parents divorce and they get a sick ass adventure with their sick ass Grunkles with a friendly helping of trauma, but when my parents divorce I only get awkward conversations from my bio dad and casual trauma??? I wanna trade!!