#just enough to give me pause

[idkaguyorsomething]

The Scott Pilgrim Takes Off treatment being defined as the movie being advertised as a more faithful retelling of its story, then going completely off the rails to shift focus and tell something different and new.

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[lbhslefttiddie]

youve heard of sex flowers get ready for the flower that makes you into a celestial shoujo herione complete with particle effects you cannot turn the fuck off and creates a wifebeam so powerful it can incapacitate and maim and keeps making you burst into tears and fall on your ass which makes the wifebeam More Powerful and you also cannot turn this off either. and is also still, sort of, a sex flower

from one of my favorite fanfictions, Celestial Afterglow by elanor_pam, a fic that defies description in the best possible way

[hyohaehyuk]

Sam talks about Jacob being 'an exceptional person' and answers what would have happened if Dale interviewed Lestat and whether or not Dale and Louis would be "friends" in The Emsolation Podcast Extras!

Note: Unf this is not the complete video where he answears that question(s). I had to edit it with a few excerpts i found so it might not make much sense. if someone put the whole segment of this question(s) i will edit this with that video

Source: The Emsolation Podcast - Sam Reid talks the FINAL season of The Newsreader, urvampiregirls, loustatsoup, comeappraiseme and pixielayer

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Him saying that he can't imagine Louis giving two f*cks about Dale 😞 Well the fanfics says otherwise 🙃 i am really surprised they didn't told im about the Louis x Dale fanfics on AO3 🤣

i cant find the tweet now but i swear that i saw someone one twitter saying that Michael Lucas and the lady in the video talked about it a few weeks ago in one of The Emsolation podcast eps.

Anyway, it's funny that Lestat possessed him both times: one (where Sam clearly was able to control him) where he was totally down to the idea of f*cking Dale and in the other where he cant stand the idea of Louis f*cking Dale (Lestat you fake poly. A cheater is what you are) I didn't believed 100% in the Lestat possession allegations until i watch this 🤯

[palmettoshenanigans]

the thing about aftg is that all the canon relationships are just so Tasty that I don't really engage much in considering alternatives. Not even Aaron and Kate cus I love them as they are. I only considered Aaron/Kevin because an Andreil fic had it in the background, and I only consider polycules of already existing relationships when the vibes are Just Right (Andreil+Jerejean+Kevin FTW)

MEANING I dont think about aftg crack ships like,,, ever. Don't break up my darlings, i already like the hands they're holding

THAT BEING SAID

[ask2ps]

i made interps of 2p liech and 2p swiss so many years ago but never posted em... not sure where the files are now. >__< but i finally am working on the new ones lol. i know that 2p swiss and 2p liech arent as popular, but theyre one of the few i have an Actual history planned out for.

tldr: the worlds ultimate paranoid germaphobe and his creepy little sister, who is armed with lysol wipes and also a Gun

[echthr0s]

my kingdom and my left arm for a word that basically means avatar but isn't avatar

[ccomilk]

i love my coworker but sometimes i am very suddenly reminded that she is a rich white private highschooler who still hasn’t left that bubble yet

[neixins]

the sword and shield part of the prophecy is soooo vague that i’ll rotate every possible theory inside my silly little head and then go “or it could be smth else”. absolute net zero conclusions reached but i had fun.

[dasloddl]

I want to sleep for like 2 weeks on end without any repercussions and impact on my responsibilities

[scrivellc]

@themeekwillinherit

For me it's not so much I dislike the ending of the stage version, but I think unless they altered the script to make it more like the stage version (i.e., made Seymour's choices more deliberate), then tonally it's just too disjunctive with the movie's script as written. But also that test audience was me.

Me @ You (affectionate):

But in all seriousness, I don't particularly have an issue with how the film itself is laid out. It focuses more on telling a cohesive and satisfying story, but it does def lose some of the like, point of the stage version, which is a bit of a bummer if you were going into the movie hoping for something that gave the same kind of feelings as the stage show, if that makes sense. Like, the ending of the show is determined more by the over all message, and the movie is more focused on the story through which the message is told and it shows.

And it's not even than Audrey and Seymour getting to live and have a happy ending that doesn't quite pass the sniff test to me, it's more what that happy ending actually ends up being. Even if we take the movie as it is, Audrey says she wouldn't need the money and the success to love Seymour, but in the end they do get that nice little house in the suburbs which was absolutely bought with the money gained from the success of the shop, which was made possible through Seymour compromising on his morals. Intentional or not, it's not great. The money isn't important except that it is. And despite knowing the plant needed blood and bodies to survive, he still decided that was worth it to keep it around, so that money and success cannot be divorced from the awful things that had to be done to acquire it (which is true of all money gained under capitalism but don't worry about it lol) Audrey and Seymour absolutely can live and get their big kiss, it's them actually getting to run away to the suburbs and it being shown where I'm like...ok, I feel like maybe this is a little too flat of an ending.

And like, they do nod to things not being 100% ok in the end with the little Audrey 2 in the garden, but that feels kinda meh given what the stage ending is. It's kind of a wink at it but not much more than that.

Anyway, give me post-canon content where Audrey and Seymour deal with, at the very least emotionally, with the fact that their happy suburban dream ending comes with a body count attached lol

[venussunrise]

maybe i’ve been too critical of mean girl she got me an easter basket today and everyone’s like omggggggggg that’s so nice of her and i’m like okay but WHY are you buying me gifts so often

[kingdomoftyto]

Been watching Deltarune theory videos in the background this week and this guy has me thoroughly convinced that Kris is the DR-timeline version of Frisk (and thus has much less sinister inclinations than many of us have been assuming), that something terrible might have happened to Asriel offscreen, and that Rouxls Kaard either IS the Roaring Knight or is going to be the funniest red herring of all time

[glimpsesofeuterpe]

... so normal™ about Loкi doing time jumps

[butyrospermum-parkii]

nvm you and i are connected across like half a mile because youre my best friend

Senshi Dunmeshi 🤝 Samwise LOTR Cooking meals for loved ones

I recently started watching Dungeon Meshi and somehow came up with this crossover and I just had to draw it haha

[yrrtyrrtwhenihrrthrrt]

In light of Brian Thompson being shot dead on my birthday (🎉🥳🎂) I'd like to share a personal story about UnitedHealthcare.

During the peak of COVID, my family all got sick. I couldn't be on my parents' insurance because they were both older and on Medicare. So, I had insurance through my University: UnitedHealthcare.

For some reason, rather than roll-over each year, I got a new plan each year that ended after May and didn't start until August, so I was uninsured for the summer months, but it was a weird situation that the university denied, and told us we were supposed to be insured year-round, it was messy.

Both of my parents went to the hospital, and I got sick too. I had to take care of my pets, and myself, and try to stay alive and keep my pets alive when I was so weak I could hardly move. When my parents came home, my condition got dramatically worse (I think my body knew it couldn't give out, because there was nobody to take care of me, so once my parents were okay, it completely crashed and failed.)

I started experiencing emergency symptoms. It was a bit hard to breathe, my chest hurt, and I was extremely delirious. I wanted to call my insurance to see if I was covered (this was during the summer) and I was connected to some nice person, probably making minimum wage, who told me with caution in her voice that my plan was expired. I had no active insurance, but she urged me to go to an emergency room. I remember saying something to the effect of "You just told me I don't have insurance, I can't go to the hospital, I can't afford it."

She sounded so genuinely worried and scared. I remember she said "You really don't sound good, you sound really sick, please call 9-1-1" and I think I just said "I can't afford it without insurance, don't worry, I think I'll be okay."

And she paused and said "I don't want to hang up the phone with you like this." And it sounded like she was holding back tears. And I don't remember what I said, I think that I would be okay, and I hung up.

I still think about her. I wonder if that phone call haunted her, or if she had dozens of calls like that a day. I wonder if she thinks about it at all, if she wonders if I died after she told me I didn't have insurance and therefore couldn't go to the hospital without incurring a tremendous financial burden. I wonder if she feels guilt or blame-- of course she shouldn't, it wouldn't have been her fault if anything had happened to me. Maybe it's self-centered to wonder if she thinks about it. I'm not the main character and it was just her job. But, still.

I think about how evil it was that we were put in that situation. Because offering year-long continuous coverage through the university plan would maybe cut into profits, maybe not benefit shareholders enough, maybe cut into Thompson's $10 million salary. While his minimum wage administrators have to feel afraid to hang up the phone, because on the other line someone might be dying, and they wouldn't know. While his patients hang up and decide to take their chances rather than put their family through that trauma.

This is UnitedHealthcare. This is Brian Thompson's legacy. This is why, understandably, an entire nation is jubilant that he was gunned down like the vermin he was. I don't care about his widow. I feel pity for his children, despite the fact that they will inherit millions, but I feel more pity for the children of his victims patients who are gone because they didn't want THEIR children to inherit crippling debt. Brian Thompson got what he fucking deserved. I pray that he not be the only one. I pray for continued safety, peace , and anonymity for his killer.

American healthcare is a disease.

[artschoolglasses]

Between being incredibly late getting into Dragon Age, going on a bit of a kick playing Pharaoh: A New Era, Assassin’s Creed Shadows coming out this month, and then the Baldur’s Gate patch 8 coming soon with photomode…

There are simply too many games and not enough hours in a day. 😔