#not ranked against each other

[recallthename]

thank you so much @raylangivins for tagging me to post my top 9 new watches of 2023!

this was surprisingly hard, but quite fun! oops that i only included movies that came out in 2022 and 2023.

tagging @blandinavian @kitausu @saucerfulofsins @ljblueteak @blondberry if you guys want to do it!

[mollysunder]

There is a theory that the way children play serves as a means to simulate and prepare them for the tasks they'll take on as adults. So for all the narrative weight both Jinx and the story give the boxing machine at the arcade it would never have prepared her or the kids to take on Piltover.

What are the two things that Piltovans excel at over their Zaunite counterparts to keep the hierarchy? Weapons and technological development.

When you look at the way Piltovans invest in their children, they don't prioritize hand to hand/melee combat training. Piltovans focus on giving their children experiences in handling firearms, a pursuit that is both leisure sport for the wealthy and a key offense against dissenting Zaunites.

And from the show notes even Jayce, whose family occupies the upper middle class, was sent on educational excursions across Runeterra to explore the world and learn what it had to offer. Without Jayce's education abroad he would never have been inspired to pursue the concept hextech.

It's no wonder that the two figures that are set to be Piltover's biggest threats from Zaun are Jinx and Viktor, becasue they engaged in the same kinds of games and activities as their Piltovan counterparts.

Jinx didn't have an entire forest preserved to help her practice her sharpshooting like the high houses of Piltover, but she did excel in the few games at The Rift (the arcade) that built on her talents. She's the only Zaunite thus far who's long distance offensive is a strong counter to Piltover's forces.

Viktor couldn't travel the world like Jayce did, but for better or worse he managed to stumble into an opportunity to get real opportunity in research not offered to his peers through Singed. It was through that experience that Viktor knew to turn to Singed when he was at the end of his rope, and the consequences of that will be fully realized in season 2.

Ironically, the kind of skill the boxing game champions is only good for keeping other Zaunites in line. Vander's days of fighting Piltover were way behind him when we first met him, and Vi spends season 1 primarily fighting other Zaunites. It's no surprise the Zaunites who embody the old ideal of strength in Zaun that the game portrays, Vi and Vander, are largely at the mercy of Piltover and end up collaborating with them to avoid further harm.

Zaun's future as an independent city-state couldn't happen if they stuck to their old ideals. The people who stand a chance against Piltover are the ones that not only succeed but excel at playing Piltover's games against them.

[snickerdoodlles]

How would you rank the Theeranyakapuls in terms of clinginess?

everything any of these boys let go of has claw marks on it.

Khun: physically speaking, i actually like making him a little touch adverse, or at least having a very complicated relationship with it. he is touchy with His PeopleTM, but he wants minimum two guns and meters of space between himself and anyone else. generally speaking, it takes a lot to make him let go of any of His PeopleTM. there's a heirarchy to it too: Kinn and Kim are his innermost ring, he will never let them go, not even when he's dead. Porsche is on the ring between brothers and his innermost guards, Chay to eventually join. there's another fifteen levels min to it, but the gist is Khun will cling desperately to anything that's part of his personal feelings of security and ruthlessly reject anything that compromises a higher hierarchy. ie, Khun might say he's done with "that stupid traitor" (Pete) post-coup but in truth desperately misses him, checks in on him, and eventually reconcile and become genuine friends with him because Khun wouldn't want to lose Pete. but in one of my WIPs, Chan (who rescued Khun when he was kidnapped and part of his sense of security) winds up compromising Kim's sense of security and Khun's adamant Kinn needs to get rid of him ASAP because Khun prioritizes baby brother over all else always.

Kinn: canonically awful at letting anyone go, i love it with my whole soul. man didn't even want to kill his uncle who was currently shooting up his home. he clung to the dregs of Tawan for years. keeps saying he hates Vegas and wants him gone, would lose more than half his whole self if Vegas were actually gone. would lose even more of himself if anything happened to his brothers or Porsche. Kinn tries so hard to wall himself away from everyone but he is a bleeding heart like no other. he cares on every level and more, beyond what he should, beyond what is safe. i want to wrap it in loved ones who will protect it like he deserves. i want him to keep bleeding over everything until he breaks and finally accepts the happiness he deserves more.

Vegas: insists he cares for no one and no one cares about him, has a million crises over it ❤ his hatred for Kinn is so integral to his being he could never kill him. would've abandoned everything for a hedgehog he loved to death if it had lasted 30 seconds longer than it did. probably a good thing because he didn't actually want to abandon everything, as seen when he immediately turns around right after to cling to Pete so hard Pete needs to escape. offers himself up as a bleeding sacrifice to Pete since. you all know this, this is just canon and i love it utterly. canon ends with Vegas holding his two worlds in his arms and Vegas would have to be ripped to shreds before letting either go.

Kim: so scared of how deeply he loves he pushes it all away and pine from afar. man literally introduces himself saying he sacrificed everything for his dream, even tho his actual first scene is demanding updates on Kinn's well-being, even tho his very next scene shows the depth of his obsession in checking in on his brothers. he has his claws still firmly embedded in everything he's ever said he let go of. he keeps trying to let go of them while never once relaxing his grip. i'm obsessed with his clinginess on every level, it's so good.

Macau: quite possibly the only one normal about holding onto his loved ones. no weird rivalries he's based his entire sense of self around at least. still beyond sticky clinging to Vegas tho, i outright laughed when Vegas tried to say Macau would prefer to leave him. my dude, that is a little brother ready to stand between you and the whole world if only you would let him.

[psychicbergara]

ryan ranked higher than shane for the first time???? ever??? well… while it’s disappointing he hasn’t gotten there before (but im not surprised in the slightest lmfao) i’d like to thank all my fellow bergirlies out there, we finally made it happen 🫶🏽🫶🏽

[bonefall]

Sorry if I've missed this somewhere, but does Clanmew have words like mom, dad, or parent? If they do, are they different from the Tribemew and old Parkmew words for it?

Plugging my big beautiful family document again because 1. You sent this before I finished it and I intentionally compiled it so I could answer these questions. 2. I am proud of it and worked v hard

But to answer this about the Tribe; The Mi/Ba system is actually VERY unique to Clan Culture! I've decided that I'm going to show how Thunderstar's childhood actually lead TO its development, during BB!DOTC.

Shaded Flower may have been the first "Ba," in the way modern Clan cats use it. I think it's a good way to do the Pro-Adoption Theme I wanted to do with DOTC, while still killing Gray Wing. Of course, it also develops over time with the introduction of Kit Stealing a few generations later, but modern Clan cats honor Shade as a patron of parenthood.

So back at the Tribe, they use the words Mi and Ba, but they refer to biological parents. It isn't The Mi/Ba System.

I imagine they have a lot more words for various types of friends and platonic family, though. If Trout and I ever build out Tribemew, I'll get into their complex relationship to the Three Wards and such.

[railraptor]

I'd love for her to be as good as her trainer has hinted she is. If nothing else I'm excited for her this summer at Saratoga, even if they keep her and Mystik Dan apart. But it would be even more exciting if they take on the colts somewhere down the line.

[sentientcitysmackdown]

[ID: A 32-person single elimination bracket showing all the cities competing in this tournament. End ID.]

Alright!! Here, as promised, is the bracket!!! Polls will go up tomorrow at...some point! Ideally not as late in the day as this!! (Is there some kinda site you can use to make matchup images?? I've been making them by hand and it SUCKS.)

Full list of competitors/round 1 brackets under cut!!

Revachol (Disco Elysium) v. the City of Frank (Osmosis Jones)

New Mobotropolis (Sonic the Hedgehog) v. Gotham (Batman)

New York City (Great Cities) v. Mechanicsburg (Girl Genius)

Gravity Falls (Gravity Falls) v. The City (Ulysses Dies At Dawn)

Atlantis (Blaseball) v. Battery City (Danger Days)

Atlantis (Stargate: Atlantis) v. Crystal Palace (Friends At The Table)

The City (Archive 81) v. Death City (Soul Eater)

Hlithvida Upon the Western Sea (Glitch RPG) v. Night Vale (Welcome To Night Vale)

Eskew (I Am In Eskew) v. the City of Angles (City of Angles)

Gunnerkrigg Court (Gunnerkrigg Court) v. Kennett Ontario (Pale)

Beszel/UI Quoma (The City and The City) v. Paris (Paris Burning)

Nagspeake (The Greenglass House) v. Ankh-Morpork (Discworld)

London (Fallen London) v. London (Kraken)

Port Cecil (Sunless Seas) v. London (Great Cities)

Ancient Cities (Minecraft) v. The Self Aware Colony (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri)

Chicago (Blaseball) v. Polythreme (Fallen London)

[yugotrash]

incomplete list of male acting performances that stirred something in me. not necessarily actors i find hot outside the role but both the actor and the role and setting conspired to awaken things.

michael c hall in six feet under (2001-2005)

john malkovich in the new pope (2020)

jeremy irons in brideshead revisited (1981)

jeffrey combs in re-animator (1985)

lorenzo balducci in stella cadente (2014)

juan cano in proyecto fantasma (2022)

ben foster in kill your darlings (2013)

alec secăreanu in god's own country (2017)

bruce campbell in sundown: the vampire in retreat (1989)

stevo žigon in rondo (1966)

mandy patinkin in yentl (1983)

ok thats 11 that's enough. for now.

[exagides]

out of everyone in the kalos league, i like to think wikstrom is closest to diantha

not only because he looks up to her as the champion but because even outside of their league duties they just mesh really well together. wikstrom's helped her learn his speech pattern for a role before and she's the only person who knows about his jousting tourney persona

[fondcrimes]

too many viral tweets defending laios for this and that I need y’all to shift gears to kabru asapppp

[hiddenbeks]

hmm. im getting the feeling that carth is kinda completely useless after taris

[6ebe]

I am so serious when I say not a single f1 driver would make it a week in Oxford college rowing 🧍‍♀️

[yellowlaboratory]

share ten different favorite characters from ten different pieces of media in no particular order, then send this to 10 people (anon or not, your choice) 🎥🎬📺

hi reina fancy seeing you here!! in no particular order (and also just off the top of my head so everything but the first 3 are subject to change):

annabeth chase (percy jackson)

elizabeth bennet (pride and prejudice)

kiara carrera (outer banks)

toni shalifoe (the wilds)

gina porter (hsmtmts)

stiles stilinski (teen wolf)

inej ghafa (six of crows)

ruhn danaan (crescent city)

jude duarte (cruel prince)

michelle jones (spider-man)

[fulgursmediaanalysisdrama]

Nihilism is a positive, life affirming philosophy. Something my christian mother couldn't, or didn't want to, understand

And Schoppenhauer is interesting but only worth anything when you conclude he is wrong

Berserk as a Nietzschean Tragedy — Art, Morality, Affirmation by Jonas Čeika

[izzyizumi]

mE: Everyone shut up "Itsumo Itsudemo" sung by AiM (A.K.A, Mimi Tachikawa's seiyuu / J.P.N voice!!!) is playing