#oh boy oh no the implications

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still obsessing over 7-12

[technically-human]

can you draw Edwin doodling embarrassing shit like ‘Edwin Rowland’ or a little doodle of Charles’s face with hearts around it then Charles comes up behind him like what are you doing?

He had some very specific embarrassing doodles in mind

ko-fi

[skysmadness]

hey guys do you ever think about this and go a little insane

boo:

tsats:

[undertalebrittle]

(Narration ripped from @euro-starling's response with permission)

There's a feeble knock at Phasicor's door. It's practically inaudible at first, but it repeats after a pause, getting slightly more determined each time.

The door opens to a lanky figure in prime position to knock for the nth time. It's a pale-skinned humanoid wearing a long lab coat and a fishbowl on its head. (What this is meant to represent is entirely unclear.) It quickly rights itself and does a small bow, catching the fishbowl midway as it tries to slip off. It says nothing, but holds out a little plastic pumpkin basket, clutching the handle tightly in its hands.

(I love your fingers good sir but how the tarny do I make you hold a door)

[lilacthebooklover]

jon matteson characters family reunion. richie is ignoring everyone and blasting japanese nightcore on his airpods. roman is here and acting disgusted at the food while linda boasts about her kids (said kids are currently causing mayhem that will probably end in tears). paul has brought emma with him and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. boy jerry is trying to give him a pep talk on how to propose so he can "do the do" with emma (bj recommends a walk in the woods). the hatchetman bursts in at one point. daniel lost track of time and decided it wasn't worth showing up. gary is happy to be a part of something like he was with the wiggly cult but nobody likes him. wiggly watches for a while then shows up in human form to cause more mayhem, nobody knows who he is, why he looks like them or why he speaks like a toddler but he's freaky and may or may not be on the verge of murder. fun times.

[freneticfloetry]

This has been eating at me, so I’m just gonna say it. I know everything, in some way, shape, or form, has fallen victim to Short Season Syndrome, but I think the execution of TK’s particular arc — not the root or motivation, but the way it’s been presented — has not done him any favors whatsoever.

I love that we finally met Enzo. I don’t love that the show specifically made it the first time he’d met Carlos, especially without giving any sort of explanation for that at all — you’re telling me these two people, who are both so important to TK, have never so much as seen each other on FaceTime? It would’ve been just as easy to go with “it’s good to finally see you outside of a screen” or something along those lines — something emphasizing the fact that this family has actually been in touch, especially given everything that unfolds where Jonah is concerned.

I love that TK wants to raise his brother. As Tay can attest, it’s something I’ve suspected since the lead-up press to last season’s finale. And why wouldn’t he? Jonah is the last living piece of his mother (and probably the most precious kid since TK himself — you go, Gwyn Morgan, giving birth to the two most adorable boys to ever walk the planet). But the way that desire has manifested in words really rubs me the wrong way. TK choosing to take Jonah is absolutely valid, as is giving Carlos the space to make that choice for himself. But saying “if i have to choose between my husband and my brother, I’m going with my brother” — not even to Carlos, but to a third party — feels so disingenuous to me. Disproportionate in scale, relative to the situation. That’s a line for “I won’t let my brother go into the foster care system,” not “I won’t let my brother go to a fancy boarding school in Sweden” — the latter of which, given that they apparently haven’t seen Jonah in person since he was an infant, would not be all that fundamentally different. And let’s be real, if the former actually were the case, Carlos Reyes wouldn’t even need to have that conversation. It just makes me (perhaps somewhat irrationally) sad for Carlos, in that context, when the choice we have for him in reverse is “no matter what.”

But my biggest issue stems from that argument. Because even though they had the whole kid conversation woefully late, they did have it. Carlos was very clear on where he stood, that he didn’t know if he would ever stand anywhere else, and TK told him that was okay. And no, this whole arc isn’t about TK suddenly wanting to adopt a theoretical baby. But “I’m done living my life on hold”… that’s bigger than Jonah. That’s moving the goalpost. And it isn’t fair.

To be clear, I’m really enjoying this arc as a concept. I just wish the writers considered the character implications of their words over whatever the mic drop impact might be.

[transingthoseformers]

I need SG Thunderclash to bully baseline Rodimus. Just systematically take apart that man's psyche, hit him in all his insecurities and leave him a crying puddle on floor. Like some sorta awful anti-therapist.

Oughhh SG Thunderclash has to be such a situation, and putting him against baseline Rodimus is just mean >:)

[cidandy]

i fear the general public may not deserve her...but you get to see girl cider as a treat because i like her & i can't stop drawing her.

[nenoname]

What are your thoughts on Hirsch?

i do genuinely respect him a lot (the fact that a bunch of the show was improvised is both horrifying and kinda amazing, standout examples being ford himself being written on the fly and also the last mabelcorn being written in a day) and love that he's insistent on the importance of found family and platonic affection, and that he's furious when people devalue family relationships if they're not directly blood related

but also a bunch of his ford takes are pretty iffy (even if he's gotten somewhat better about him recently) and he's pretty "two steps forwards, a bunch of shuffles back" about treating the abusive relationships he writes cos it was like "oh he's talking about it normally for the panels--" and then that charity stream was basically a cannonball to any goodwill he built up

also god damn he's bad with writing romance and picking side ships in general (tad/woodpecker guy is the most 'picked random names outta a hat' shit), especially when he's fully aware that it gets fans sidetracked from the main points he's trying to make with the series

his current take of bullying and shaming ai shills however? excellent! love to see this when people are going "uwu if we ignore them stealing and being shitheads maybe they'll go away there's nothing we can do anyway" defeatist bullshit-- do it hirsch!!! send your legions of obsessed fans after those morons!!! him openly bitching about how disney execs are a bunch of spineless cowards is great too

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

i have been mostly twirling my hair and sighing dreamily over Rook X Lucanis but i really did just put my girl in perhaps the worst JustNoMIL situation imaginable

[clowningaroundmars]

y'know what i've been thinking about lately for no reason at all?

miles42

yeah, yeah i know but. if his 1610 counterpart is a conflict-avoidant-anxious type who keeps running both physically and metaphorically to and from his responsibilities, always acting like he's got everything under control... then, would miles42 be like that as well?

would earth-42 let him do that at all?

by that i mean... i always thought that miles42 would also be the same way, a boy who always tries to sweep things under the rug and pretend everything is totally normal... until i figured that smoothing over important things that need addressing is probably the last thing he would want to do, at least behind the scenes.

he'd put on the happy mask and conceal his pain on the surface, never arouse suspicions. miles42 would undoubtedly be influenced by his uncle aaron of course

but when a dystopian police state comes marching into the streets of your neighborhood, and the corrupt govt ruling over them plunges your family into poverty, there's only so much you can paint over until the cracks really start showing. problems tend to escalate quickly under totalitarian regimes

both miles42 and aaron42 would have to reckon with surviving in a world like that, where every bill that comes in the mail could be their last before the cops come hauling them away to debtors prisons. every infraction against the law established by evil billionaires and ceos could mean prison for life in general. every rebellious act is undoubtedly at the risk of being captured by cameras posted everywhere

miles1610 was able to run away from his problems, at least for a little while at a time. what would a miles who didn't have that option at all look like?

how would he feel, looking at himself from another-- freer, and arguably better-- dimension?

[blackjackkent]

All right, Hammer in hand, it's time to go save Hope and get the hell out of Dodge.

I distinctly remember Hector making use of the Hill Giant Strength gauntlets to bypass a lockpick check on the prison hatchway, but Minsc was able to open it without any sort of check, which is odd. I wonder if this is another thing that is just easier since everyone in the House is dead, although I'm not sure why killing the debtors would remove the hatch's lock.

Hope bursts out of thin air again as Rakha approaches the door of the jail. Rakha is really not a fan of this jumpscare approach to conversation.

"Careful," she hisses. "The jailer will swallow you whole if you take another step!" Her voice abruptly cracks up an octave and she shrieks anxiously, "AND YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO SAVE ME WHILE YOU'RE BEING DIGESTED!"

She twitches from side to side frantically, then goes on in a lower voice again. "You found my prison. My body is held in chains just beyond. The whole House is tumbling down, and Raphael's striding across the planes to come catch a mouse. Now swing that big, beautiful Hammer, crack open my chains, and let's get out of here!"

A pause, and then another abrupt, loud cry. "IT'S TIME TO FLY THIS COOP ON A HOPE AND A PRAYER!"

"Let's do this," says Rakha, who deeply just wants to get this all done with as quickly as possible and leave.

Hope laughs, maniacally, desperately. "YOU SOUND SO BRAVE BUT REALLY WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE!" she squeals, and vanishes again.

-----

"I really wish she would stop doing that," Rakha mumbles to no one in particular.

-----

The fight against the spectators in the prison goes off pretty much without a hitch. As usual, the scariest part is trying not to fall off the stupid platforms. :P But we managed it. I did have to reload because a perfectly normal jump seemed to glitch out part way and Lae'zel just fell like a stone, which was quite weird.

With the spectators out of the way, Rakha takes the Hammer and smashes the chains holding Hope prisoner.

"Free!" Hope squeals excitedly. "I never thought I would be, believed I could be, hoped I might be. HEADS WILL ROLL!" Her voice rises to a pitch almost out of hearing range, and Rakha's teeth ache.

Then the dwarf's face falls abruptly, and she scuffs her boot against the platform.

"But we must address the hollyphant in the room," she mumbles. "I can see how you avoid looking at me. I must be so terribly mutilated after all these decades of torture..." She swallows, risks a glance up at Rakha. "Don't hold back. Tell me how bad it is."

Rakha blinks. Mutilated? She herself looks far worse, with what the Astral Tadpole has done to her face, than anything that appears to have happened to Hope. She shoots a quick glance at Wyll, who shrugs, puzzled.

"You... look perfectly normal," she ventures cautiously.

Hope smiles sadly. "We both know that's not true. But thank you for being so kind."

Rakha blinks several more times. "No, really," she says after a slight pause. "You look fine."

Hope looks at her for a moment, and then that sad smile deepens. "You truly are the kindest fool I've ever met," she murmurs.

Rakha stares at her. In all her broken memory, no one has ever said something like that to her, not even Wyll.

Hope, after all, does not know her.

Luckily, she doesn't have to think of something to say in return. Hope has already moved on, her anxious attention going towards the battle ahead.

"We'll carve our way to the entrance hall and chop Raphael into messes!" she says brightly. Then she adds in a lower voice, "That's the hopeful version, of course. The likely version is that WE ARE THE MESSES AND HE IS THE CHOPPER! ONWARD!"

[corvuskoraki]

LIES OF P OVERTURE ANNOUNCED LET’S GO BAYYYYYBEEEEEEE

[charismabee]

Stupid idea but

Time Travel 'Fix It' but the person who's sent back is Tim just after Jason's death and his grand plan is to make sure Dick never stops being Robin. In his mind this solves all the problems.

Batman still has a Robin (which he obviously needs!)

2. Jason doesn't die (good for him!)

3. Dick is Robin forever (yay!!)

Trust him guys he's got this. The Universe chose him for a reason. He's going to go to every length to ensure his genius plan and nothing will go wrong.

[grossdyke]

more about dyke sirius escaping the craziness of the black family? lowkey want to know about her relationship with the other marauders- does it change much from canon?

all of my inspiration about dyke sirius is currently inspired by @lifeisabitch-butimcute and her lesbian wolfstarbucks series on ao3..💞

high school best friends turned situationship that never ends turned high school sweethearts meet remus remus lupin and decide to keep her. yummy

[sugarsnappeases]

we need to talk about tom working at borgin and burke’s more…. hilaaaaaarious to me