#not really but similar category

[markscherz]

I put it to you that Scaphiophryne marmorata is peak frog.

Why?

Well first, it's pretty round, which is key.

Now get a load of those fingers.

Big, expanded discs at the end, ideal for climbing.

But what's happening back there with those toes? No discs there. Those are good for walking and hopping around on the ground.

Now, let's gently turn them over

First, excellent tum, 17 out of 10, no notes.

But what's that at the base of the foot? Those big projections? Yep, those are spades. This climbing, hopping frog is an excellent digger!

I like to think of these Scaphiophryne as all-terrain frogs. They're basically good at everything. They defy our categorical labels of 'arboreal', 'terrestrial', or 'fossorial', and say 'por qué no los tres?'—but in Malagasy, so 'nahoana no tsy izy telo?'

[annabelle--cane]

this comment was made in response to a bunch of terf bs and I don't tend to like sharing their stuff directly but I desperately wanted to preserve this line on my blog. sorry for stealing your post ms doubleca5t.

[transmascutena]

what's with that "fucked up ships" poll having both utenanthy and . akio and anthy in it. like huhwhat.

[scribefindegil]

I mean this in the ace-est possible way but Dimple-in-Reigen's-body is really hot. sorry.

[bookishjules]

the 13yo i babysit was doodling in her planner today and she drew this lil like cat head and said "look it's the cat guy!" and i was like ..chat noir? and she was like no the little one. so plagg ofc lol her little sister answered "plague!" at the same time i said plagg which i thought was really funny but isn't relevant to this story. anyway then my 13yo said plagg is kinda like keefe from kotlc? and was that weird to say? to which i responded no. not at all. bc like imo chat noir is a very keefe-esque character. so like. plagg + adrien = keefe in a way? and she was excited about this revelation. i had already placed chat and keefe in the same category of beloved characters, but it's fun to see like how adrien and plagg complement each other to achieve that

[petr1kov]

i understand there still is many shallow and bad faith criticisms directed at the early disney princesses because pointing out how they don't measure up as well to today's standards became easy clickbaity talking point, a sentiment that is being repurpused by disney in order to promote their more recent movies as being 'not like the other ones' because their princesses are girlbosses now when they're not outright attempting to correct the original movie in their shitty remakes. everyone rightfully is sick of it by this point, and that's definitely happening to the upcoming snow white remake too right now, but. seeing some of the reactions to it, i do think that we have circled back to overcorrecting when it comes to this this resulting in equally baffling takes about these characters being common right now.

i mean yeah, rachel zegler saying that her snow white dreams of being a leader instead of being with the prince because she's a girlboss now is not good, but that doesn't mean that the original movie version of her wasn't this bizarre idealized vision of what a perfect woman should be and act like. we can argue that she was a young abused girl all we like, defend and analyze her portrayal through these lenses, but at the end of the day, snow white is just not a real person. and she was quite explicitly written to represent something - the ideal woman - and that something does have a lot to say about the culture that created her, which traits were valued in women at the time (youth, purity, passivity, motherly nature, the very white skin that's in her name), and it doesn't look great. as much as we like to make fun of modern disney, it's still ridiculous to ignore something as obvious as that about their older films, i think

[alltimefail-sims]

Is underwear still not its own category? I'm just surprised that it hasn't been moved to its own CAS category by now, especially with the release of a romance pack. Underwear and pajamas are not the same thing imo, but maybe I'm just weird?

[timetravellingkitty]

I could elaborate on said negative feelings but that would require not having a runny nose

[arthropooda]

The premise of Netflix series Eric feels like a huge ripoff of the Syfy series Happy! !!!!!

It's been out for two weeks and nobody made this connection!

Now I'm not usually like this about art, I usually do not care whatsoever if things are similar, but this is too many similarities for it not to bother me. I can hardly watch this show because every second I'm like "that was in Happy and was better in Happy!" which is an opinion but it is just amazing how one thing can be kind of a flop and then a few years later something so derivative/reduced from the substance of the original comes about and it's just et up by hipsters. Also again my opinion but so amazing that cumberbunch is never ever in anything good, happy if I'm wrong bc I don't go looking for him so maybe I could be wrong but it's soo funny for him to be playing the main character in a shitty photocopy of Happy. Half of my feelings abt this is because I think Happy was really good (although I get that it's not everyone's thing) and half is that no one noticed the combination of same premise details that make up anything otherwise unique about Eric

Set in a dark grimy NYC

Similarly titled children's live action entertainment with costumes (Sonny Shine/Good Day Sunshine)

Main character's ongoing substance abuse and getting fired for it

Children seemingly abducted by unhoused, facilitated by organized crime

Main character & child's mother's bad relationship

Child's furry blue imaginary creature helps main character find them

Okay maybe it's not that much of a huge list but most of those could be expanded to two or three list items and there are probably more I haven't noticed because this is a spontaneous rant.

The main differences seem to be there being no holiday theme and the main character not having been a cop, with the secondary main character being one instead

not part of a comparative analysis, but a little funny that cumberbatch's expression is literally exactly the same in every one of these image results from the show

well actually I can make that part of the comparison too, look how much more expressive these are!

[pornography-for-kenkus]

every day on this cursed webbed site i come across some of the stupidest fucking opinions i've ever seen and i'm honestly so so strong for not engaging

[lwcina]

the fact that the us government can continue funding and arming a genocide despite massive public opposition really highlights how inherently non-democratic the united states is

[pleafyistired]

this thing i do when i have not consume anything about a media but this guy who makes art about that media is really good and im gonna follow them. And also its probably because of the sunglas- [I AM SHOT DEAD]

[ardentpoop]

i wish people could tell the difference btwn:

this is in the story as an important and intentional theme

this is in the story unintentionally but says something culturally significant and might still tie into the story's key themes

this is in the story solely to please the fans

this is in the story solely to shock the fans

[iamtheoneandonlyever]

when you overhear tons and tons (like 4) people at your school talking about st and how they think its a brilliant show and you are stuck here like don't ask them about byler don't ask them about byler don- bc you live in a very queerphobic country and will probably get targeted

(idk if queerphobic is a word but since almost all are looked down upon, i am making up this term)

the worst part- i start analyzing them to see if they would ship byler by what they do and how they talk and such and they do indeed fill some criteria but at the end of the day you are still living in a queerphobic country

[lazy-toad]

hanahaki for the fic tropes ask game? 👀 (personally i used to hate it, then found a couple fics that did something cool with it and now i'm more ambivalent)

Oooh that's an interesting one!! normally I'd say D or even F for hanahaki (or similar tropes) but also I do think that there's a potential there that a good author who's willing to explore it beyond the surface level could really tap into!

Fanfic ask game and what the letters mean

[pennamepersona]

woke up thinking about the narrative use of astarion & how weird it is that his personal quest doesn't tie into the main narrative At All bc something is wrong with me, etc

ftr, i'm saying all of this as a bigtime astarion fan. love this guy. i keep romancing him and it's begun to feel like a cry for help. And Also, @ larian it's really fucking weird that you made a guy who doesn't tie into the plot at all

i'm putting the rest of this under a readmore. also i'm maintagging this mostly just for being able to find it later, if anybody wants to come @ me then pls know i basically never engage w/ tumblr and you'll probably be disappointed.

best i have for a real justification is that astarion exists in part for players who want to be Evil And Fucked Up. none of the other companions are fully down with using the tadpole powers or trying to take over the cult. and it is genuinely good to have a companion who gives you that option! if players who wanted to explore the fucked up options had complete disapproval from every companion, it would be kinda feelbad and make those options feel less like a real choice you're allowed to make.

why does that matter re: astarion being entirely detached from the main narrative? thank you for asking. it means that "guy who is down for being fucked up and taking over the cult" doesn't come across as secretly being in league with the bad guys the whole time. astarion having no link to ketheric, orin, or gortash means that his power play ideas don't make you suspicious that he's been lying to you and is just waiting to deliver you to the Chosen.

to be clear: still weird that he has no direct tie-in. but this is the best reason i could think of for why he'd be so completely not involved.

the other Point Of Him, i think, is for The Dark Urge. it's no secret that astarion is a killer parallel for durge. i'm not gonna go into that but goddamn, i love it.

and if we're looking at things from the durge perspective, i think it kinda works for astarion to be so detached. he then becomes Random Baldurian Affected By Durge's Actions and it adds more strength to him also functioning as a piece of nuance for the tadpoles. he's the only one who directly benefits from the tadpoles existing! and that on its own is a cool bit of narrative. i think the durge side of things makes astarion's narrative tie in just a bit more. we've now got Dude Who Was Saved By Player Character (Albeit Unintentionally). i think it adds more depth to the durge narrative, and if the dark urge was the only non-origin option and tav didn't exist, i think it makes astarion's lack of narrative relevance a bit less glaring.

tldr; useful for the guy who's down to be fucked up to not be involved with the villains At All so you don't get suspicious of him and the option to be fucked up feels like more of a real option

(also tasty durge & astarion narrative depth)