#or maybe i'm wrong

[coff-in]

question...

i wanna hear your opinions since the mod is a hot topic (reasonably so, i think)... if you don't mind

[dostyaak]

Sometimes I forget that you guys are real people and not just a bunch of goobers on my phone

[fluffypotatey]

i have only watched Sense and Sensibility once but it was years ago and i don't think it was a bbc series so the one i found on tubi is super confusing

[toolivelygeek]

Sorry, I just can't TwT

The concept of the ancients (Sonic Frontiers) is good and ambicious, but I can't get over the fact they just decided to make'em aliens. Creating an ancient civilization based on Earth opens more space for original and creative concepts. When the story implies they were aliens, the only caractheristic we can think is "probably technologically advanced" and that's it. We've already seen this style of story on the most famous peaces of media, like

Aliens that came to earth because of the destruction of their home = Transformers and Super Man.

Aliens who leave traces of their culture on Earth before humanity = 2001 A Space Odyssey (book), Transformers (Primeverse and Bayverse only) and a bunch of others.

Personally, I don't think it was necessary to bring this clichè to explain the origins of the Chaos Emeralds. It also implies that the emeralds are more technological than mystical - which on its own is capable of being explained, yet still remaining mysterious... just like "The Force" in Star Wars. It is an element that has already received its own explanation, but continues to act as something mystical.

Star Wars (maybe Star Trek as well) are good examples for introducing the Sonic Franchise to aliens: making the characters leave Earth to face a greater threat. That feels better than just giving aliens the same reasons to come down to earth.

Well, at least this is what I think

[fae-spy]

im glad that they change his personality a bit so it just isn't ten all over again. cause as much as I love ten it would've been a bit boring

Idk what I expected from 14 personality wise but I didn't expect him to be so fucking sweet. He said he loved both donna and wilf and that rose was donnas beautiful daughter. That's more heartfelt language than 10s entire run lol

[egophiliac]

still ruminating over Lost In the Book With Spooky Skeletons Part 1, so here's a selection of some of my favorite little bits! (...some more loosely paraphrased than others) (I just feel like Idia has no room to criticize in general, okay)

anyway, I'm sure we're just going to have a fun time celebrating Halloween and nothing bad is going to happen whatsoever! :)

[sleepymccoy]

This is also a bit of a culture query, cos these are all in my house so I genuinely cook with these all (except chicken salt, that's been in my cupboard for ages)

But I'm not from the USA and most people here are, so I wonder if that's similar! Maybe your cupboard is identical to mine. Maybe we use the same stuff but call it something else. Maybe USA has a different relationship with pre mix spices and you use none of it. Maybe you've never heard of pre mix spices. I dunno. That's why I'm asking!

I use plain herbs and spices as well. Especially when making a complex meal I'll do it myself. But I use pre mixes other times, so I'm voting. Voting for a pre mix doesn't mean you don't also use paprika! If you genuinely have no pre mixes in the kitchen tho, then hell yeah, tell me!

Also, I know I haven't listed everything in the world. One, that's impossible. Two, this is a bit of a culture thing so I just checked my kitchen and used those. This selection is representative of me only

(you don't have to be from the USA to vote, obvs, we just all know that's how the results will end up. Please tell me about your spice mixes in other countries!!)

Morrison spice blend: Pepper, tumeric, ginger, cardamom, parsley, salt

Chinese five spice: Star anise, cinnamon, clove, fennel, Sichuan pepper

Chicken salt: Salt, chicken stock, garlic, paprika, pepper, onion, celery

Gluhwein gewurz: Orange peel, cinnamon, lemon peel, star anise, hibiscus, clove

Chimichurri: parsley, garlic, oregano, vinegar, chilli, salt, pepper

Za'atar: thyme, cumin, coriander, sesame seeds, sumac, salt, chilli

Garam masala: coriander, cumin, cardamom, cloves, pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg

[clonerightsagenda]

Spotted the word "blorbo" in The New York Times book review. Listen NYT romance reviewer, I really do not think your paper's audience is going to recognize that one

[caseuoiseau]

1) I concur, let us all observe and note how adorable this interaction and delighted that cat is.

2) ...but can we talk about the knitting? That baby has the practiced tension of someone who has been knitting for A WHILE, but she...she is so wee??? I literally zoomed in to see if I could spot the working needle, because maybe she just grabbed someone else's knitting but the working needle is currently IN PROGRESS, several stitches in, and she's pinching the needles together to keep the stitches from falling off. Either this is extremely well posed, or Shetland is living up to its reputation and this baby is already really freaking good at knitting.

A wee Scottish knitter and friend. 1939. Source.

[mobius-m-mobius]

#obsessed with their priorities

[lonicera-caprifolium]

Okay, so!!!! This post will have spoilers for the very end of Good Omens season 2, but I have a theory about that ending and I'll explain--

Something was bothering me, so I just went back and watched the ending like actually 30 times and I am fully 99.999999% certain they switched places

As they're pulling away after the kiss, they lock eyes and Aziraphale's expression shifts in the teeniest tiniest way, like a confirmation glance, before they shift back (and Michael Sheen is a master, so no chance it's not on purpose)

(Like really, go back and watch how Aziraphale's expression shifts literally *a second* before "I forgive you" cuz the change is SO minute, but entirely different emotionally.)

Aziraphale's hands -stay by his sides- after that, he doesn't clasp them at all, and it's particularly noticeable while he's walking to the elevator with Metatron.

The Bentley only ever plays other music for Aziraphale, but also Crowley drives away slowly, but ALSO Crowley's collar is fully turned down but you -can- see bits of the red underside in several scenes (particularly before he changes in heaven), but you don't see it -at all- after the kiss

And Aziraphale's face IS weird in the elevator like everyone says, BUT. after going back and watching both, I'm pretty darn sure that's cuz it's Michael Sheen's Crowley, it's the SAME as during Aziraphale's trial in season 1.

This also explains why they're on opposite sides than they're usually shown while the end credits roll.

[hoofpeet]

I think the issue I have with all of the pointless "art advice" that gets passed around on instagram/tiktok/etc is that it always acts like there's a set "end goal" to art- which is usually to be as realistic as possible ( I could also go into this for hours)- but that fundamentally misunderstands the point of art by acting like there's a Right or Wrong way to do things. Everybody has to figure out what the want from art and what their "goal" is; which can make a lot of art advice completely redundant and lead you down the wrong path

[tervaneula]

Ouugghhgjg them... Leo deserves some closure after the events of the second chapter of and just like that, and because my brain isn't letting me think in words (I'd wanted to write a drabble for this) I'll just think in pictures instead

Leo's having a tough time and obviously Leonardo isn't just going to let him fester in those feelings 🥺 He's not leaving! Yuichi isn't taking him away from his family! It's A PROMISE

[shalom-iamcominghome]

If even acknowledging antisemitism within your community spaces is going to "distract from the cause," maybe that's because the foundation of your beliefs comes down to antisemitism. What you're doing is telling on yourself.

[isimchi]

An untitled digital painting I made for the Nowhere City UFO Museum, 2024.

[22ndnervousbreakdown]

"the man we idolised turned out to be a bad person, but it's okay, this other man hasn't fucked up yet so we can just idolise him twice as hard!"

Do you people not see the problem