#more of a personal babble really

[inke-ri]

Y'know, if you told my 12yo self that there would be an accurate Percy Jackson show (or movie) coming out, she would have been ecstatic. But I'm just... not. It's hard to understand why. I still love the books - at least the first series, nothing in Riordan's work really interested me after the first one with the exception of maybe the end scene of Mark of Athena, which is really well written - and I still re-read them annually. The casting seems to be on point. The lore seems to be respected So... why is it that I don't care?

Maybe it's got something to do with preferring my own imagination and interpretation of these characters, idk. Maybe it's in the beauty of reading a book and imagining the world and characters myself instead of accepting whatever visuals the series chooses to give me. Dunno.

[anghraine]

I've always been sympathetic to Luke, but the prequels' Skywalker backstory definitely makes me more so.

I've heard people dismiss him for playing with an old toy while complaining about being made to stay on a desert hellworld dominated by slave-owning gangsters, since Leia's a hardened revolutionary at the same time.

I think Luke's dislike of Tatooine is actually entirely legitimate based on the OT alone, given what he likely knows, but then it turns out that the slave-owning gangsters owned Luke's father and grandmother.

Luke doesn't know anything about Padmé and he doesn't have Leia's visions of her, so he has no sense of a legacy from lush Naboo or the apparently prosperous Naberries. His world is Tatooine and the legacy he's intensely conscious of is Anakin's, and Owen and Beru's. And I mean, Owen is Luke's uncle because Owen's father bought Luke's grandmother and freed her to marry her. She was later captured from the farm and tortured to death; Luke would see her memorial on a regular basis as he helps extract moisture on the farm.

He has every right to complain about being stuck on Tatooine—and always did IMO, but after the prequels? Whew.

[ladyinthebluebox]

controversial opinion, but. i prefer the fact that we got to have Neve on the team instead of Calpernia.

[bonefall]

Voted for Bumble bc of course but also if you think Alex would not pspsps Bumble you are wrong. If they could communicate they would go to therapy together /s

If then could communicate they would go to therapy together

/GEN

Kyle/Green Lantern resurrects her but then he becomes convinced that she's not the same person she was before the incident, OR SOMETHING SOMETHING Black Lanterns aren't ACTUALLY bad they're just misunderstood Grim Reaper types, in either case Alex ends up breaking it off with Kyle because they've become very different people.

And then Bumble's there

And then they go to therapy or Alex adopts Bumble, and then uhhh Bumble's like one of the superpets. Like Krypto the Superdog. Free premise go forth and play with it if ur a DC fan

[kyliivan]

Sampo… more like, Hoyoverse rant… thingy..? Idk what to call this

So this random thought popped up in my brain at 5 in the morning after I watched Mina and Molly (Seele’s va)’s stream where they ranked HSR characters, and they said some things specifically about Sampo that got me thinking.

Hoyoverse always makes sure their characters are marketable, or at the very least likeable enough. even in cases where their characters end up being unused or straight up become a punching bag for the community it’s usually never because that’s what the company intended to do.

I find it very odd how Sampo specifically doesn’t meet any of their criteria of character making. He’s not particularly hot (he is the hottest character) or to be more specific he’s not the same type of hot as Jing Yuan or Blade for example that would have a lot of people fangirling over

He’s not really “cool” (he’s the coolest character) in the same way Blade or Dan Heng are cool, enough to get people invested in him.

He’s deliberately created to be unlikeable, it feels like Hoyoverse made him this way on purpose which just feels so… unlikely for them to do.

In fact, like Molly said, he’s not like anyone Hoyoverse has ever made, I mean I’m very glad that Sampo is actually so special, they managed to create such an outstanding character with him, but I also have to question why?

I know silly goofy man is technically what his fans like about him the most but in the grander scheme of things if you really take a look, Sampo is one of the least liked characters. there’s so little attention being given to him by HSR fans especially in comparison to other characters like Jing Yuan, Dan Heng, Kafka, Welt yada yada, and I know they’re like main characters but still… heck I would argue characters like Qingque are more popular than Sampo come on.

My point still stands that Hoyoverse seems to want to make him dislikable on purpose, which is a behavior so opposite of what they typically do. they must have a good plan for him. I refuse to believe otherwise.

[sonicenvy]

one of my favorite library kid encounters this weekend was a with a little Greek three-year-old named Andromeda. She and her mom came up to get her beads for SRP, and, as is pretty common, they start telling me about what they've been reading. Friends, this child and her mother have been reading the Odyssey in Greek together. The mom and the kid chat back and forth in Greek together about the Odyssey while picking beads (and counting them in Greek), translating bits and pieces for me as they go along.

Apparently, Andromeda's favorite character in the Odyssey is Penelope, which, uh, girl I see u!!!!! Obsessed with the vibes of this toddler who read the Odyssey in Greek with her mom FIVE times this summer because that's her favorite book! GOOD! FOR! HER!

Additionally the mom was like, "yeah we also read the Iliad this summer."

no notes. impeccable. there are days when i love our kids so much y'all.

[shiroganeryo]

Hi there. So don't mind me, I was going through your dazatsu art a while ago (both you and your husband I think?) and also saw some of the captions. You said you two met when you were cosplaying dazatsu? I don't mean to sound stalkerish so please feel free to ignore me, but that is about the sweetest thing I have ever heard😭❤️ I would like to draw one of your cosplays as our favorite couple. You could send me a picture you like- paint over your faces if you don't feel comfortable or-

And again and I emphasize, feel free to straight up reject this or ignore it, because I know it's odd. Just wanted you to know how you warm my heart, and I love your artwork as well<3

Have a nice day or night

Hello there! First of all, don't worry about "sounding stalkerish", it's very sweet of you to drop by just to let me (and by extension, us) know about your thoughts! 😊 The thing is, it's not that we met when we were cosplaying; perhaps me saying we weren't a couple yet gave that impression, but since you asked, I might as well tell you the full story?

You may want to sit, it's a little long (though I'll do my best to be brief) 😅

We already knew each other, we had been acquaintances for a long while, actually! We met when we were 14/13 or so (we're 31/29 now, I'm the older one). We weren't really that close, but we were on friendly terms and all that.

I'll skip the very personal bits which includes (but is not limited to) us getting closer to each other and stupidly pining mutually, but the sequence of events that led to it is one (!) of the reasons why I tend to say we're a "dazatsucore" couple. Because:

He was into me > I noticed on the spot, and did nothing > I was into him > he didn't know because I hid the fact > leads to him blurting out a confession thinking he'd be turned down > I do not turn him down but ask for some time to think things through because I want to be sure of my feelings first > not too long after I have an answer.

By the way, everything I'm saying gets even better (and funnier) when you consider I'm the "Dazai" one, while he's the "Atsushi" in this.

Anyways, about the cosplay shenanigans you inquired about; back when we were getting closer to each other (2016ish), I had become interested in BSD but knew nothing about it; I knew he had watched it, asked what were his thoughts on it, he said it was nice, recommended it, etc. He then commented that he planned to cosplay Atsushi, showed me the character and shared his cosplay plans.

I had only watched the opening so far (the thing that led me to ask him if the anime was good), and Dazai was the one who had caught my eye the most, so I said, very offhandedly, that 'hey, I'd be down to go with you to the con, I do entertain the idea of cosplaying Dazai'.

He was like 'woah, really?! That would be so fun!' but also got extremely nervous on the spot. I obviously noticed. You see, my spouse isn't really the type of person who can hide his feelings very well + I'm good at reading through people. We've always been a funny match in that regard, ngl.

From a quick Google search I did to gather references for the outfit, I could tell the two characters were a somewhat popular pairing, so I made 2+2, I also already knew he had a crush on me and just did nothing about it, like I explained above. So he had gotten nervous that people could mistake us for a couple because the two characters are (were? sadly) a popular pairing.

Which I did know... And again, did nothing about because while my suggestion to cosplay together was sincere, having no intentions of manipulating him or anything, that did work in my favor as well so two birds, one stone.

In the meantime, what I told you above happened and we started dating. And, for obvious reasons, we decided to go ahead with the cosplay plans 😌 I've never posted a clear picture showing our faces because we're not the best photographers out there, but here's one of the least terrible ones:

The icing on the cake, that doesn't have much to do with us, but is still something we remember about fondly: we're Brazilian, and Brazil is a very big country. The anime con we were going to attend was the biggest in our country but also some good hours away (a 9 hour travel away to the capital, to be more precise), so we took a bus ride with some people headed there as well. It's common for people to make these "con attendees" group rides and they're always really fun experiences + very cost efficient.

One of the people we befriended on the ride was this girl who, coincidentally, was cosplaying as Chuuya. Since we're a queer couple (nb sapphics who go by he/him pronouns) we didn't know what amount of gay was okay in public, but this one girl knew we were a couple, 100% sure of it and it was genuinely beyond funny seeing her and her friends waiting on us to just do something, anything, that gave the answer away.

We kissed like... once, when they were nearby, and the reactions were priceless, ngl. The euphoric I KNEW IT faces.

Back then we weren't married yet, so no telling rings or anything, but this Chuuya had gotten the vibes somehow. When I asked her how she knew before we even did anything, she said, just like this: 'it's the way you look at each other 🥺'.

I need you to imagine Chuuya Nakahara saying this, with this expression. Makes it all 20x funnier. Also the reason why I usually write him as a wingman/enabler in my fics.

Oh, and about the "he had no idea I knew all along", I did tell him... last year 😂 We were reminiscing about things and he went on a tangent saying something along the lines of 'I feel kinda bad because it was selfish of me but I liked the idea of us being seen as a couple back then so I didn't tell you the characters were a popular ship'.

To which I replied: 'Oh, I knew, don't worry.'

Cue shocked Pikachu meme for my spouse's reaction. I then explained that I was fully aware of everything all along, and he was like 'thank GOD you decided to play along then because I had no idea how to charm anyone' 😂

It feels good to put our silly story out there, I had told this story only to one person in the fandom so far (I won't tag her, but Katsu can confirm we're two dumbasses in love) because I don't usually talk about personal stuff publicly like this unless on a whim but also because, like I said, it's a very long story even with skipped parts.

I hope this was fun to read, at least? 😅

As for what you asked about drawing us, I'll apologize, but neither of us understood exactly what you want to do. If you could elaborate more on it, we'd be grateful and could give a proper response! All in all, thank you for sending the ask, it was really lovely of you to stop by just to say that! 😊

[springs-hurts]

Simpleton Arthur! Makes me laugh and it grates on my nerves, seeing him like this...Also, Gods! I didn't remember it was Gaius' idea, "if Arthur loses his will" Like man! such a morally grey character, I so want to know what Gaius did during the purge to stay alive! How Uther didn't kill him but I digress, it's about Arthur and Merlin!

The sword in the stone, 4.12

When he was looking at his home, Gods it killed me...like Bradley's facial expressions are so top notch man!

This man doesn't want to go, it's his home, his kingdom, how he's supposed to leave it like this, run away like this...but it's not under his control now, Gods but truly whenever I'll see this pic I'm gonna cry again and again

[kung-fu-cutbug]

anybody remember when Enasonas were a thing? no? too bad, Cabal redesign be upon ye

(original design from 2022 under the cut)

[beannary]

I actually really wanna hear that hour presentation about how Nettie was made because parthenogenesis is a natural process that happens in the body. But Donnie calls Nettie an experiment like she was made in a lab. Did he experiment on himself to induce parthenogenesis?

so basically I am NOT a biologist so I only have a very surface level understanding of parthenogensis but basically yeah!

After the kraang and the whole merging with the technodrome situation, Donnie got really into biology, and specifically animal biology which I don't think he was really into before. I always imagined donnie to be really squeamish when it comes to blood and guts and bodily stuff, but merging with the technodrome really kind of shoved that out of him, and he finds some comfort now in studying animal biology.

He basically ends up doing a deep dive into his own biology, since that's really the easiest body he has access to. like sure he could study his brothers but they have their own lives and he well, controls his own body so he can do whatever he wants with it. And in the process he sort of connects the dots like huh, Draxum made us to be weapons of war but would he also want us to be able to reproduce? Because obviously draxum wouldnt want his biological weapons to just die and end there, it would make sense if the turtles were capable of reproduction if just for the benefit of draxum not having to remutate new animals everytime one of his weapons got injured.

So Donnie follows that logic and is like huh, well some reptiles can reproduce asexually (not softshell turtles from what I can tell based on my VERY BRIEF research) but he I wonder if because of Draxum's mutation if I could also do that.

If I was an actual biologist or if I had more time to do actual research into parthenogensis and asexual reproduction I would totally write out Donnie's whole presentation and figure out the science behind how Nettie was made but alas, I am in school rn and I dont really have the time

maybe in december that could be a fun little project when the quarter ends but I was planning on using that time to crank out as much TLP content as possible so who knows! I have gotten quite attached to Nettie and I want to make more stuff about her so maybe I'll end up doing a biology deep dive

[kandicon]

I am. once again thinking about Ashes aftercare

[anghraine]

I've been poking at a rambling P&P post in my drafts about why the uncritical glorification of Elizabeth's rejection in the rejection/letter sequence seems pretty dubious to me, especially when it leads to sidelining her character arc.

Anyway, here's part:

The thing about Elizabeth's rejection is that it starts from a place of absolutely righteous, justified indignation and seems entirely appropriate to Darcy's shitty proposal. She did treat Mr Collins's shitty proposal much more gently, and I think that's significant, but that fact doesn't make her wrong to be angered by Darcy's proposal or to call him out for it. So the fandom treatment of it as this piece of spectacular righteous indignation is right in the sense that she does start with that.

And then she keeps going.

[ladyinthebluebox]

it is so fucking funny looking back at myself reading tevinter nights something around two years ago, distinctively remembering how i was hoping and praying that they will make lucanis a companion in DA4, convinced that if they do he will 100% become my next antivan sweetheart.

and look at me now...

[dumbbullet]

had a nearly 2 hour long interview yesterday and when they asked "where do you see yourself in 5 years" i felt like crying

[mitamicah]

The finished result 😁

[ivashkovadrian]

Do you even fucking understand the point of writing a semi-funny caption to a gifset so people can smile/laugh and get to share it or does that fly right over your head? Y’all should really need to learn WHEN to be taking things seriously and when NOT to

Because for sure writing “#fuck mercantilism” would hit the audience (tumblr users in the year of 2023 in the Gregorian calendar)