#like backwarder is one of them

[aro-aizawa]

being a fan of miraculous ladybug is painful when you have overwhelming secondhand embarrassment

[teaboot]

YOOOOO CHECK THIS SHIT OUT I FOUND BATTERY-OPERATED AM/FM RADIO HEADPHONES

I’M NEVER USING WIFI DATA SPOTIFY ITUNES YOUTUBE MUSIC APP SHIT OUTSIDE MY HOUSE EVER AGAIN

[crow-caller]

rewatching your nightbane review and getting genuinely mad about how much the concept of a magically-bound divine right of kings (and how the populace can’t overthrow their rulers without all dying) fucking rules and how alex aster WASTED it. begging another fantasy author to please write this idea but like. good

(also your proclamation in that video that grim has “ice-cold yaoi hands” has haunted me since it came out. why did you speak that into the world social media user crow caller. why)

1. was there when the yaoi hands reigned. I know the signs and know them well. never call me a social media user ever again.

2. The divine right of kings thing Aster backward stumbles into IS very cool conceptually, you're right!! I nearly brought this up in my Skyshade review, but then realized it'd be the weirdest pull: Fallen London has an extremely good version of the same concept. I'm so so so sorry FL for referring to you as anything similar to Lightlark, but if you're interested in how 'magically bound divine right of kings which keeps a populace under control, treated as innate to the world but secretly artificial' can be done well.... well. let me tell you about The Chain.

The Great Chain of Being is a concept that the world is divided into a strict hierarchy, with some above others. In FL, the beings at the top are Judgements- cosmic gods who burn as bright as suns (okay, they are suns). They sit at the top of The Chain with the understanding This Is The Way The World is- they are often referred to as 'Kings', because they are analogous to them in many ways. Why do the Kings rule over us? Because the Chain is a facet of the universe, the Chain is true and says they are better than us. Why does the Chain say this? Because it is true.

.......Except, of course, it isn't. The Judgements created the chain, as kings created the Divine Right of Kings- to excuse their excess of power and abuse of it, they create the lie there is a divine truth to the world which just so happens to put them at the top. The universe doesn't make some people better than others, but some people will say it does in order to get away with heinous acts*. In FL, the Judgements abuse their power in far wilder cosmic horrors ways, able to enforce this division with their ability to rewrite reality with burning words. This power is again not necessarily something innate to them because they are sooo special- it is something they have because The Chain they've created to control reality says so.

This is key worldbuilding to fallen london, and is Sick As Hell- though quite Deep Lore, not apparent or relevant when you first begin playing.

(*The Great Chain is a real concept originating from medieval Christianity, which very much places all the world into a strict hierarchy with God at the top- followed by man, descending through various animals, and even including plants and minerals. A key aspect of the Chain was that this 'Absolute Hierarchy' was real, innate, holy, and... of course, an excuse for all kinds of racism. Sure, maybe they did think it mattered to decide lichen was closer to god than mushrooms, but ultimately an obvious reason the philosophy took root was to justify why certain humans mattered more than others.)

[sainz100]

Max & Daniel throwback to 2018 | Futsal in São Paulo | x

[gallusgalluss]

long time no aliens, huh

[strawberrybyers]

i truly would not be mad if nancy breaks up with jonathan and tells steve to move on. and for vickie to tell robin she’s not interested but is willing to be friends. so nancy and robin decide they need to hang out after a long day of heartbreak and throughout their convos of explaining everything that’s been going on, they realize they have feelings for each other. i truly would not be mad at that. in fact, that’s exactly what i want to happen 😌

[opens-up-4-nobody]

can I just say, I followed you for your beautiful art style and use of colours and I stayed for your beautiful art style and use of colours AND cyanobacteria. Like, I know nothing about them because I'm a classic lit major but more often than not I find myself reading your posts about cyanobacteria with unexpected interest and fascination

HAH! I'm glad u enjoy them bc I feel absolutely intolerable when I talk abt them lol. But also. I am the cyanobacteria evangelist. I am the patron saint of cyanobacteria.

[marimbles]

someone over the age of 30 tell me it’s gonna be ok

[angryjewishcockroach]

I have been thinking about this video nonstop since I first saw it on Instagram. I hope everybody has a very happy tuchus!

[Video ID: A Jewish woman (Rabbi Yael Buechler, @midrashmanicures on Instagram) speaks to the camera: We have reached a new low in holiday product fails. This treat box is for Sukkot. It's featured on Amazon and Sukkot is a holiday that doesn't get a lot of love so kudos for having a product for Sukkot. It says Happy Sukkot and in the Hebrew it says--wait for it--tuchus! Happy tuchus! Tuchus is Sukkot spelled backwards. The product clearly wasn't vetted in the Hebrew. This other treat box just says Tuchus. I'm thinking we should create some sort of governing body that "certifies" Jewish holiday products as being "kosher" because this is a new low. Anyway I want to wish you all a very happy Tuchus." The first box she shows is pale green decorated with images of apples, pomegranates, and branches and the words "happy sukkot" and תוכוס. The second treat box is pale orange with a similar motif and the word תוכוס. End ID]

[smitten-miqitten]

My only real big Veilguard fix-it thing is just this:

Mythal, Elgar'nan, Ghilan'nain, Felassan, and all the other Ancient Elvhen we see sound the same but way more Welsh.

(Well, except for Mythal. She'd sound like Flemeth but Welsh)

Tevinter Nights sort of sets Solas's accent up as a precursor to the modern Dalish accent, so it makes sense to me that the other Ancient Elvhen would sound more like him than they do in Veilguard.

It also makes Merrill even more of a dorky history buff in retrospect.

[moldy-flowers]

Me n @bubba-buff drew Sakura a (Not belated I Have NO idea what you're talking about) birthday gift of her from childhood shows we watched

here's Bubbas GORGEOUS art (THAT THEY DREW AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT BTW??? The skill on them like what 😭) with my colouring and shading!! This is her from winx club,,, I like the sparkles they were fun to add. I mean I literally used a brush to do it but it was still fun lol. I SPEDRAN THE AXE SHADING BC I DIDNT KNOW WAYY INWAS DOING IDK HOW TO SHADE METAL WAA 😭😭😭

Heres my art with Bubbas gorgeous colouring 💞💝✨️💗♥️❣️💓💞💝💗❣️💖💝💌💌

My dad made fun of her hands 😞😞 BTW SHES FROM CARD CAPTOR SAKURA!!!!! I couldn't pick between literally making her card captor Sakura or making her a clow card so i kinda mixed both??? It doesn't look like a clow card or like she's a Card captor but blegh! It was fun. And it was also fun when I finished the colouring before bubba could bc of the flowers lmao

[vim-flam]

any time I see the song "want you gone" mentioned anywhere, I wanna jump in like did you know the drums on that were by john flansburgh. and that it was his idea to drop them on the line 'oh - did you think I meant you?' that was john flansburgh. who did that.

[lilacs-stash]

Acting like Nickel and Suitcase not making up is a good message about not needing to forgive ppl who hurt you is crazy to me because like, this is the same movie that forced Knife and Marsh to live together. That made Mic forgive Taco despite him still being a dangerous person to be around and literally just saying the word sorry. Like man I do not think they’re sending that message at all. They didn’t even do anything with Nickel and Suitcase’s relationship that’d make that meaningful

[gamer-comix]

my new favorite kind of amazon review is people who bought manga but don't know what manga is

[sammaggs]

was scrolling through some old photos for work stuff and found a gem: that one time I went to the Canadian Screen Awards in 2015 the lifetime achievement award that year was given to OUR MAIN MAN

photos were absolutely not allowed inside so I have exactly one (1) picture from the entire night, but I was NOT TO BE DETERRED so here, have a Shitty 2015 Cell Phone Rare Paul

This had somehow entirely disappeared from my memory banks (ADHD brain huh) but I now recall sneaky-taking this with shaking hands, and that his speech was beautiful and all about the importance of Canadian cinema and television!

Also a winner that year on the same stage: Callum Keith Rennie for guest starring on Motive

George Pimentel the photog king of Toronto, impossible to not smile at him exactly like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also incredible you can tell I was dating a short king by where the TELEFILM logo lands on Callum (neck) vs my dear sweet Ted (over his head) lmao

I was a baby but I was at the time the Cineplex Girl dating the Space Guy so I was generally in this orbit

So apparently I saw both Paul and Callum on stage from like 2 tables away in 2015 and totally spaced on it until this exact moment!!!!!!! Cool!!!!!!!

GLAD I SNUCK A PIC TBH!!

do u fuckin think they hung out after or what like oh my god

[deserthusbands]

peep obi-wans cody's lightsaber.