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[wistfulwatcher]

forever grateful for actors who look at their scene partner's mouth when they talk. they're really those little hand hold supports on the indoor rock climb that is fanon shipping

[theartofangirling]

black sails, 1x03 / 1x06 / 3x04 / 3x08 / 4x02 / 4x03 / 4x08 / treasure island, robert louis stevenson

[cthulhum]

does anyone realize how crazy it is to have the actor of a mostly headcanoned queer ship say the fans were never crazy and they were right all along after 10+ years of everyone just absolutely going nuts over the said queerbaited ship

[epiaphany]

buckandeddie + rescue goggles bonus:

[spottedgardeneelstan]

i know that binghe being extremely jealous isn’t “normal” or “sane” but i’m honestly on his side here. like his concerns that sqq will be stolen from him are pretty rational. i really think that almost every scum villain character, in the event that sqq would want to papapa with them, would agree almost immediately. sqq is the xianxia equivalent of helen of troy.

[violagray]

[lavenderprose]

'He would not fucking say that' only it's 'That child would not speak in full fucking sentences.'

[bluestation]

at work

[userarmand]

That's what you said to me, right? Standing in my blood, stroking my hair.

[blacktabbygames]

(slight, vague spoilers ig?) about the HEA route, were we always intended to dislike smitten and his actions here were clarifying that intent, or was it more like character development? I've been seeing more people say that his actions here have made them dislike him during other routes too, so I wasn't sure if he was always supposed to be difficult to like or not

The voices are, among other things, manifestations of the player's emotions. Even the best things in life can be destructive in excess, and in terms of voices, this is far from being a unique characteristic of the Smitten. See also: Cage!Skeptic; Tower!Broken; Witch!Opportunist, etc. etc.

Smitten in HEA is an interesting stand-out case because the route hits particularly close to home for a lot of players. And when something in a fantastical setting hits close to home, there's a tendency to apply real world standards to the characters involved in that event. So players are more likely to take Smitten to task, than they are, say, Hunted, who traps you in a cycle where you and The Den violently eat each other forever, or Broken, who insists on torturing Apotheosis.

If anything, prior to release, I thought Smitten-heads would mostly be upset at his lack of screen time. He has almost *no* dialogue in The Pristine Cut, even in "his own" route, where the role he serves is more that of an echo than that of an active participant. I liked abby's answer in our AMA.

All of this is to say, there's no overarching intention for you to "like" one voice or "dislike" another. Each iteration of them is "different," much like each iteration of the Player is "different" at the start of each version of Chapter 1. And all of them have the capacity to change, for better or for worse.

[doctorwenqing]

okay i was rewatching into the spider-verse after watching across the spider-verse and noticed something during the scene where miles meets his universe's peter for the first time.

peter's spider senses are red and blue, the classic spiderman colors

but miles's are purple and green... like another version of miles i can think of 👀

[razberrypuck]

one of my favorite things charlie's done ever is just Decide that qmariana uses he/she pronouns. making all his own characters gay and trans isn't enough he needs to make everyone else queer too

[saint0psy]

Soul eating boys

Self indulgent Soul Eater au with Meister Charles and Weapon Edwin! I’ve drawn Meister Edwin too but like…. Classic scythe Edwin….. anime Maka weapon manifestation moment….. excuse to put Charles in more tartan…..

[killjoy-prince]

House M.D. but it's when Wilson says House's name

[shanklin]

Stan and Ford never stop playing the game of tag they started when they were still little kids.

So what if Stan got kicked out and Ford doesn’t want to see him anymore? 

He can still sneak into Ford’s dorm at night, tap him and leave a post-it note on his face saying “Tag, you’re it!”

So what if Stan is currently staying in Colombian prison? 

Ford can still break in during spring break and tag Stan before escaping. Stan escaping in the process was an unintended consequence.

Ford gives a big speech at his graduation?

Well, perfect opportunity to tag him while he’s distracted. The proud tears in Stan's eyes are just for show so he fits in better with the crowd.

Stan gets captured and trapped in a trunk?

What better way to tag him than when he’s all tied up. Helping him to a safe place, tending to his wounds and watching over him while he sleeps is just a way to keep the game fair. And Ford dropping his new home adress before he leaves? Purely an accident.

Stan arrives in Gravity Falls, but doesn’t immediately tag Ford. He claims he’s waiting for a good opportunity. Ford responds that he’ll just have to keep a close eye on Stan in the meantime.

It takes a long long time for Stan to finally tag Ford again, but when he does, he escapes no further than his room in the Shack.

[ghilllly]

Solas was not “dumbed down” in Veilguard, he’s acting the same as he did in Inquisition.

Namely, he’s underestimated his enemies.

In every instance where Solas is revealed to be some “mastermind”, it’s come with the caveat that his plan has been either disrupted or had an outcome he didn’t account for.

Case-in-point: Corypheus.

Solas outright admits he did not expect Corypheus to survive the Conclave; he expected him to die when the Breach opened; so when Corypheus survived, Solas was left floundering.

People sometimes forget that it was absolutely dumb luck that the Inquisitor touched the orb at all, thus allowing them to both survive and have the key Solas needed to both defeating Corypheus and reacquiring the orb. It was also dumb luck that they even let him treat the Inquisitor so they didn’t die.

Solas did NOT plan for the Inquisitor, he just got a lucky break.

And even then, he underestimates the Inquisitor before they break the orb.

So when Rook and Co. wreck his ritual? That isn’t Solas being “dumbed down”, it’s us seeing how his pride causes him to underestimate people directly. Solas didn’t expect Rook to knock down the loose statue, because he didn’t think Rook could stop him; and in thinking he couldn’t be stopped, he failed to account for something happening that did stop him.

Rook surviving, and forming a connection between themselves and Solas? Yet again, a lucky break.

So throughout Veilguard, he does the same thing he does in Inquisition: making himself seem harmless, and then swooping in when the timing is right. The difference is that Rook already knows that Solas can’t be trusted, and so he doesn’t wear the façade he wore with the Inquisitor with them—yet even then, they still end up being outdone by Solas when he swaps places with them.

Yet even then, Solas once again fails to account for Rook being able to deal with their regrets when he couldn’t deal with his.

He once again underestimates Rook.

Even when Rook comes back, Solas makes his final mistake in thinking he could one-up them yet again by making it seem like he’s genuinely going to help against Elgar’nan, and then coming in to continue his original plan…

…And getting fooled by a bait-and-switch, or failing to account for Rook being ABLE to fight him (or willing to drag him down with them).

Solas is not a mastermind.

Solas has always been too prideful for his own good.

And that will always be what gets him in the end.