#reactive people

[mimmixerenard]

FINALLY going to see the Les Mis French revival au Châtelet tonight, I'm so excited (I've had the tickets since April lmfao)

Pardon my French, mais je pense que ça va être une dinguerie, trop trop hâte d'y être

Here's a barricade Eponine doodle to celebrate

[mandana-the-service-pup]

Boomers sure are offended when they think you’re rewarding your dog for “doing nothing”

“Your rewarding for nothing?! You’re just giving treats and hoping for the best!”

If you think my Malinois is doing “nothing” by volunteering a chin rest with her back turned to multiple dogs barking & lunging at her that’s a you problem. My girl gets as many treats as she wants and in return I get a calm dog who volunteers for multiple injections & blood draws in a row with a happy tail and no restraints. If being calm under stress isn’t reward worthy, I’d hate to see how you with your little Yorkie would react to the alternative. Ugh

[epersonae]

Not to be old, but I am thinking about things we lost with the end of over the air TV syndication as a common cultural vector.

I was in a conversation (several conversations) about where to start with Star Trek, and where people started, and ended up formulating the thought that the best way to start is to just randomly encounter whatever happens to be on at the time and go from there. (I know a few people a little older than I am who started with The Animated Series which is a hell of a starting point.) And for decades that meant random reruns in syndication.

Then I just posted about the role of M*A*S*H in my childhood, and that too was all about it just being on kind of in the background all the time.

Then @piratecaptainscaptainpirates posted about seeing declining participation in OFMD stuff, and I was thinking about the same thing that happened gradually after the TAZ Balance finale, and then about fandoms for old shows (both recent-old, someone I follow has been posting a lot of Gallavant gifs? And old-old, like @frommybookbook with Perry Mason), and then, of course, Star Trek.

How much of Star Trek being THE fandom show is due to those years in the 70s and early 80s when TOS was in syndication at whatever random time on whatever local station? (similarly in the US with Doctor Who through the 80s on local PBS stations) When new fans can just happen upon the source material by turning on the TV on a Saturday afternoon, or every weeknight at 7, etc etc.

Idk, I'm sure someone with an actual scholarly background has written something about this, and idk what this means for the future of our little subculture(s), it just made me ponder the landscape that I grew up in that simply does not exist now.

[op-dumpstertruck]

I just realized! Sanji had one of Zoro's earrings, but it looks like he gives it to Kuina. I'm assuming this is a way to let the crew know that he's still alive somewhere, right? Or it's something sad like: Sanji doesn't know if he'll make it out of there, but Kuina can so he can at least show that Kuina is Zoro's kid.

It's a bit of both, I think! I think it was hard for Sanji to part with it, cause he sees it as the wedding ring he never got to have, but he gives it to Kuina as some sort of proof that she's not lying. It's good that she has Zoros hair and generally looks similar to both of them, but... I have not yet explored that here, but I think Zoro changed in the aftermath of their 'deaths'. He's not gonna look at Kuina and go 'oh my kid', he's gonna be enraged by the thought that someone is trying to trick him.

[dykedvonte]

i saw that u have ur own hc for curly and jimmy's backstory; do you have one for anya as well?

I do!!! It's actually a lot less depressing than you think!

I imagine that Anya grew up in an average happy family, well average for whatever lower middle class family is in a world we can assume exist in a place where late stage capitalism won. I'll try to keep this in line with how I describe Curly and Jimmy's backstories but she had a family that tried to uplift her when it matter. They paid attention to what she cared about and made sure they knew she cared. I believe they couldn't support her in school due to her path and the modern expenses but they encouraged her and her every choice. She didn't have parties but she got gifts to help her express and explore herself.

Life was something I think Anya handled well. She was not the top student but she was a good student. She managed her job and school as well as she could and took the PE job so she could go back. She had nothing saved up but she planned in accordance, hence her concern about the baby. She had a good circle of people, maybe not someone who ever got her, but people that heard her out and understood enough to where she always got herself. She had partners and thought about futures but always thought about hers specifically first, not selfishly, but truly asking if they were facing the same directions.

She was always in her own head, not in a bad way though. She was always thinking about what she could do. I think she just liked knowing she could. I think she became a nurse because she wanted to give people choice in the same way she understood it. Doctors just fix a problem but nurses walk you through it, I think Anya

I genuinely believe that because she lived thinking of all the choices she had and all the ways she could overcome things, the fact that she was trapped on board with so little escape and choices, while not being heard or understood really just put the pin in her final acts of agency.

[sergle]

i was a chihuahua disliker in a past life but have Grown Up since then, but earlier i saw one that made me clench my fists in agony. i wanted her so bad...

[thevulturesquadron]

I’ll go ahead and say it so others don’t have to - the real reason some people complain or dislike Rook is cause they’re not the Inquisitor/Lavellan.

Hope now we can all stop waltzing around it, let people have different opinions, and accept they are just opinions and not The One and Only Truth or ground-breaking criticism they often pretend to be.

[flowersforthemachines]

Useless Veilguard fact of the day: Day 16

Veil Jumpers are the only faction that doesn't have a faction-specific goodbye line with the companion of the same faction before the final battle of the game.

Check out the tag for more useless facts: #useless davg fact of the day!

[3gremlins]

me: i care less about dragon age now, it's been almost decade, i am tired.

*a few crumbs of dragon age news*

THE BEACONS ARE LIT! GONDOR THEDAS CALLS FOR AID DISCOURSE!

[vaguely-concerned]

my capacity to see a bad fandom take and just blithely say 'okay! I disagree' internally and move on because it's not my responsibility or concern that someone else thinks that has leveled up so tremendously over the years. I haven't quite escaped the pit of misery yet but I think I'm getting there

[fadetouchedsilk]

I think it would have been nice if the grocery shopping scene came a bit later tbh, like after we had some more time to get to know everyone. This is less a criticism and more wish fulfillment lmao

Let me use the shopping trip as a chance to make some nice gift purchases and get a smallish cutscene with them after. Perhaps let me turn that into a flirt option too while we’re at it. Lucanis specific, it would be 10/10 if we bought him that knife after hearing more about the wyvern thing. Like yeah he loves the gesture in the moment regardless but imagine how much more !! he would be if that exchange took place weeks prior & Rook Remembered

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

if 9&10 were "dont wander off", and 11&12 were "the doctor lies", 13s rule #1 is "dont question me"

"have we not had a good time together" shes pointing yaz to the rule that yaz very well knows is there: we can travel if you dont ask me any difficult questions. yaz knows this is the rule - "because you ask too many questions", "this team structure isnt flat" - but she also was the one to invite the doctor into her home so im pretty sure she also knows shes not gonna kicked out that easily. she has some leeway. which she has been using between revolution and flux, which is why the doctor reminds her of the rules

i dont think she'd kick her out though. she wouldnt. i think it's just that the more you break the rule, the more unpleasant she becomes to be around, and eventually youre gonna walk out on your own. she doesnt want you to, she'd rather you stay and dont ask questions. but if youre gonna try to ask questions anyway, i think thats whats gonna happen

and yaz must think so too. because she does back off. because she doesnt want that to happen either. and it does anyway

[valiantvillain]

Do you think Wyll told his father all about Tav, how wonderful they are, and their entire love story before he proposed to them? Do you think Duke Ulder Ravengard watched his son's eyes light up with love and just softened, remembering bitterly just how much time and how much of his son's life he had missed in sending him away? Do you think he gave Wyll and Tav his blessing? Do you think he congratulated Wyll when he gleefully reported back that Tav said yes? Do you think father and son were considering the very tentative plans for a wedding when this was all over?

Do you?

Because I do. I think a great deal about it.

[funkervogt]

(Realizes that the most common transman experiences perfectly align with my life and feelings about myself and fascinations and who I want to be with) Ohhhh Okay i am fucked

[guppygiggles]

Lunch break doodles of Null.

[yeats-infection]

some malkmus / pavement screengrabs from 1992-4

frankfurt 1994 - reading 1992 - australia 1993 - london 1992 - rennes 1992 - bielefeld 1992