#plot fencing

[taffywabbit]

man, they weren't lying..... those Super Lesbian Animals sure can Role-Playing Game

[ckret2]

WHa Timeloop????

:) tie mloop.

(because i know what everyone's first assumption is gonna be: no, it's not the euclidean massacre)

[cringefail-clown]

found more ttglstuck stuff in my files

[redthefencer]

A bit of an update:

I've been out of fencing for the better part of 5 years now. I never thought I'd fence again. But as chance would have it (or fate, according to sabre mother. He prophesied when I was a baby 19-year-old fencer that I would be a coach by the time I was his age. He was 31 at the time. I just turned 31) I am now coaching sabre! [Yes, I also don't believe it... and I've done it for 3 weeks now.]

Because I am coaching I decided I need to make sure I'm a halfway decent fencer. So I went back to my old college club (they accept both students/staff/alumni and community members). Needless to say, it was something else to say, "yeah I'm a club member from 10 years ago." And then have people say, "oh my God! You're that one name on the armory wall!"

So I guess redthefencer is alive once more! Expect content like, "I'm 31 and I'm trying to fence like I'm 19 wtf" and "shit my fencing students say."

I'm glad to be back. And those of you who are still around after all these years, it's fucking great to see you.

[necrotic-nephilim]

What do you think about the fab five polycule

(Dick x donna x wally x garth x roy)

i'll be SO honest i wish i had like. insightful interesting opinions on them but i've always been a Young Justice kid and sort of. breezed past consuming Fab Five Teen Titans content-

but of what i *do* know, from the few comics i've read with these characters is this is one of the best ships for Dick, honestly. it always deeply annoys me when fanon content breezes past the Titans as if they're just some distant teammates and not some of Dick's closest friends, if not a second family. *especially* the Fab Five. for most, if not all of them, it's the first time getting to actually connect with other teen heroes. so there's something fun about how sort of terrible they are at it, at first. they all care about each other a lot. but they're kind of chucked into the deep figuring out how to work with each other and get along with *very* different personalities, so it's fun to see where the conflict comes.

as a ship, i do really love it. the Titans are a family. like we call a lot of teams found families, but for the Fab Five, that shit is the truest. they depend on each other and trust each other. when Dick and Bruce are on outs and Bruce fires him, he goes to the Titans.

i also enjoy how, to an extent, all of them are outsiders of some kind. Donna is alone in a new world she's never experienced, the same as Garth. Roy is still new and awkward to living the rich life with Oliver. Wally doesn't connect to his parents well. and of course, Dick has lost his parents and only has Bruce, who isn't the most emotionally available. of course they're going to cling to each other, as the first people they can really develop connections too. they're very clingy with each other and i think that's both cute and *fun* to explore like, codependency issues with them. how protective they can be of each other, how they default to trusting each other over their mentors, etc. it's all very interesting for a polycule, especially since for most of them, it's their first real relationship. i'm a big fan of "none of us know what dating looks like bc we've had such strange childhoods so we don't understand the Rules very well. we're all just going to date each other bc why would i date only one of you. do teamups count as dates now." vibes with teenage polycules. and the Fab Five just. have that on lock. they each fulfill a different "niche" in the group. Garth is the softer, more emotional one you can go to if you're upset. Donna is the one for planning bright fun trips and making sure you don't wallow. Roy is protective and can pretend to be suave, but he shows affection through gift giving and grand gestures where words fail him. Wally can cheer any of them up with jokes and distractions. and of course Dick is the logical one who makes sure they all keep their heads on and don't drown in the responsibility.

overall i think it's a really cute ship and i do wish i just. knew more about them to be able to write them/read fic of it because i do love their dynamic. and i'm just a firm believer in the Titans being Dick's family, just as important to him as the Batfam. they're a disaster and for that you gotta love them.

[extasiswings]

Nitpicky pet peeve for published books, I find it extremely grating when a character isn’t doing something they otherwise would and it’s obvious the only reason is the author has decided “X can’t happen yet for the plot”. Because it’s totally fine and reasonable if X can’t happen yet for the plot, but then…come up with a legitimate reason for the character not doing X? Don’t be lazy about it!

(This complaint brought to you by the fact that the protagonist of the book I was listening to was confronted by what he thought was the dead body of the love of his life and went into a blind rage and tried to murder the antagonist who was responsible for her death and he…stopped himself for Reasons that seem to boil down to “she wouldn’t want me to kill someone” except that a) he regularly kills people who have done far less than the antagonist, b) she knows this and is fine with it, c) she would definitely support him avenging her with murder (to be clear she is not actually dead but neither he nor the antagonist know that), and d) this motherfucker (the antagonist) definitely deserves to get murdered. Like…it would have been extremely easy to write it as “he was stopped by the guards in the room” or “the antagonist managed to escape” so the fact that the reason the antagonist is still alive is because the protagonist had a bizarre crisis of conscience resulting in a complete and total personality change is just???????? Please be so fucking serious rn)

[st-hedge]

Out of morbid curiosity I’m lowering a mic into the pit to task, if OoT did get a modern remake what would be the main thing u would hope to see changed/updated/reworked?

[silkhy-john]

Pokemon XY except the protag befriends Sycamore and basically gets to watch Sycamore and Lysandre’s relationship play out like a doomed romance also Diantha is very involved cause of course

[cxttlefishcxller]

The degree to which I am Very Not Normal about Solavellan is probably concerning, tbh

[demi-pixellated]

//OC road work ahead

[dollypopup]

my new theory as to why Colin is so buttoned up in the series and the Tudum promos is that they want us to be just as feral for him to show off his titties as Penelope has been

[denkies]

I remember being so distraught when we thought Hirotsu and Gin died, and then when it's revealed that Tachihara was the perpetrator, i was literally like "nvm theyre fine. That's his family, he wouldn't kill them no matter what" and i was right.

[sometimeswritingsometimesdying]

eugesse fake dating au where jesse wants to piss off his father (who will pay off potential suitors to stop seeing his son) so he drags eugene along to be his perfect bad boy boyfriend (except eugene really isn’t that and they fall in love inadvertently) (robert comes around to it) (it’s mostly jesse’s grand evil plan to have a late stage teenage rebellion)

[sleepless-in-southlands]

i think hermitcraft should have the equivalent of that 'regular guy does the olympics as a reference point for how good the olympians are' where it's just like. person who plays minecraft often enough to know what it is but that's it. they're not bad at the game but they're not about to reinvent the block while they play. around them are feats of divine architecture and world breaking redstone and cinema level plot lines and meanwhile they are living in a lovely one story one room wood house, they just made themselves a diamond chestplate, they are having a lovely day wandering around and complimenting everyone else's builds and politely declining every other hermits' offer to build a base for them

[spacedlexi]

thinking about clem vi and minnie

[rotzaprachim]

meta incoming but one of the most fascinating themes of rogue one and andor to me is the idea that a parent’s (individualist) love of their child might not be enough to save them from the (structural) violence of the world, so it’s fascinating how fandom managed to sail right past that in a bunch of places