#logic cakes

[helluvakippie]

I just LOVE that ol classic Vox and SatorRotas drew him with toony powers and im in love

[ccycloneblogging]

Whiteboard comic with @crazycakeparrotart

BONUS:

[deconstructthesoup]

The parallel of Simon forgetting Betty as a result of going mad and Betty going mad as a result of not being able to forget Simon and yet both of their insanity manifests in an inherent obsession with the other will continue to make me lie awake at night

[shimidraco]

in order for GLaDOS to be a milf, she has to have kids duhhh 🙄!!!

portal 1 cores!!! they r all weirdgirls and they help out with testing/the facility in their own ways. morality helps look after the test subjects, curiosity helps to playtest new test chambers, logic (aka cake) helps come up with new puzzle concepts for tests, and anger sets hazards like turrets and toxic slutch in new tests!

[babyblueetbaemonster]

O great librarian please bestow your wisdom upon me.

[inbarfink]

Okay, so...

My assumption has always been that Simon is just kinda intrinsically Fatherly and that aspect of himself simply persisted in spite of the Crown’s influence

All the way to his Ice King persona and the way he doted on Gunter

But maybe putting on the Ice Crown just kinda…turns you into a Dad??

I mean... not necessarily a GOOD sort of Dad... but definitly some sort of Dad???

[trayusss]

When rhe core is intelligent

[101flavoursofweird]

Not to link everything in the PL universe back to the Azran… but does anyone wonder if Layton and Luke (especially) were so determined to investigate the Relic Stones because they thought there was a chance they could bring Aurora back?

Like, Luke knows the timeline doesn’t make sense because Baby Kat is born 2/3 years after AL and Luke walks past a mother and a baby who look like Aurora in the AL credits but after the shipwreck, in his exhausted starving mind, do you think Luke hoped the baby might be Reborn Aurora? Kat’s mother was literally called Kamila Azran—

The purple Relic Stones also look like the jewel of Aurora’s pendant…

I don’t think Luke gets enough flak for how he decided to investigate the Relic Stones on his own, shut Marina out, got himself captured by Don Paolo and then he inspired Layton (who was dedicated to raising Kat at that point) to go out hunting for the Relic Stones with him…

But if Luke was so determined to find the Relic Stones because he thought he could save his lost friend… I could see why he would take the risk.

Either that, or Luke wanted to help avoid another disastrous family reunion if Kat’s birth father happened to be alive and he could come back to fight Layton and kidnap Kat. (Luke still hasn’t recovered to the Bronev Family Soap Opera.)

[ngeruma]

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[itsclydebitches]

Re: RWBY outfits in v9: Hey wow it's strange that Jaune gets a completely new helmet and hairstyle and altered face AND his armor is significantly retextured to the point of looking completely out of place with the flat-colored outfits the girls have in shots where they're together. I'm sure this has nothing to do with where the narrative focus of the Volume actually was. But it's fine if we don't at least partially take the girls out of their cold weather gear???

This!

Also, people frequently fail to acknowledge how much this snowballs.

RWDE: Why did Jaune get the new texture and hairstyle? Push-back: Duh, because he's the one who's been living in the Ever After for decades. RWDE: Yeah... and why did he get to do that again? Push-back: Because he killed Penny and the story needed him to have a significant arc in response to that. RWDE: Uh huh, and why did he get to do that? Push-back: Because Jaune is the one with the super important healing skill that beautifully contrasts their violent career! RWDE: ... are we not sensing a pattern yet?

Putting aside the fact that Ruby could beautifully fit any of these emotional beats with a bit of tweaking (she falls early, finds the time tree, the emphasis is on the contrast of Penny's first friend having to kill her, silver eyes are somehow significant to that moment, etc.) I think too often fans get caught up in not only the supposed necessity of any one scene —treating the RWBY gang as real people bound by the whims of fate, rather than characters 100% controlled by the writers — but also the ways in which, yes, past work does have an influence on what occurs later. If you make Jaune a team leader equal to Ruby, if you give him a big arc at the very start of the show, if you make him OP in regards to energy, if you give him the most useful skill in the entire group (given that they're fighting humans more than grimm nowadays, silver eyes are all but useless in most fights. ESPECIALLY when Ruby will randomly not use them against Cinder), if you make him the emotional focus of Pyrrha's death, if you give him the revenge quest, if you have him kill Penny... yeah, you're setting up future scenarios where he "has" to remain in the narrative spotlight. That's the problem: not only that RWBY refuses to pull back from Jaune's position in the story, but that it started that trend so early that now they have built-in excuses for why it "has" to continue. We knew going into Volume 9 that Jaune would be a problem because Volume 8 had already introduced the problems of a) having him kill Penny and b) having him fall with the title team. We're going in circles and continually winding up in scenes like, "Well, Jaune has to have an emotional breakdown that detracts from Ruby's because he's the one who has suffered for decades and he's the one who just lost an entire village to deliberate drowning. Not giving him that focus would be bad writing." Yeah, I know it would, hence the frustration that RWBY keeps backing itself into that corner!

The design issues are a like a mini-example of that. You're right, it would be ridiculous to have Jaune living in the Ever After for most of his life and somehow coming out of it looking exactly the same... but if you're going to continue capitalizing on the focus he got all the way back in Volume 1, at least give the girls equal treatment. I don't like that Jaune had a breakdown that undermined Ruby's, but given that I also would have disliked the story ignoring his clearly traumatic experiences lately, I'm glad they at least gave Ruby her breakdown alongside his (even if, as stated elsewhere, there are additional problems with how it was framed). The clothing does the opposite where Jaune gets his logical change AND the story does nothing to try and bring Team RWBY up to speed with him.

Chucking onto that pile: the fact that so many were expecting/hoping for Ruby to come out visually changed from her time in the tree, but she simply reverts back to where she was a few episodes ago with her rose pendant. Jaune, meanwhile, leaves the Ever After as the only one with a visual cue that he's undergone any growth.

[rebisrot]

what i need to know is if scarab is also made by his dreaming body and if so. do him and prismo share a bed.

[spiderh0rse]

sometimes i look at simon petrikov and think "this is a guy who has issues seeing people as People until he gets to know them or can immediately relate" and also remember how he attempts to do the classic relating to someone by linking back to your own experiences. with the lich. bold move, buddy.

[cakeontheloose]

Episode 9 Betty is gonna dump Simon. Hard.

[shiroselia]

Also for the record can we remember SSE are trying to do textual transgender cookie points with a confirmed afab character as transfemme

(Read: Current Concorde is a girl. Current Concorde is Explicitly said to be AFAB, because she doesn't have balls. SSE also throws out the line about "how a soul isn't defined by a body it's born into")

Basically

By their logic Concorde should be transmasc

And she is VERY MUCH NOT MASC

[starkatstories]

ive been thinking about the bioshock franchise and how funny it is to find snacks and various foods all over anywhere that you can eat for a little bit of health and i think that i should share this comic i made about 10 years ago about it

[trayusss]

Mmmmmmmmmmmm