#rv talks

[towl]

IRENE for 2ªN's Girl's Night Collection (November 2024)

[technically-human]

I don't know the rules for art requests so I'm hoping if I do this wrong you'll just ignore this message. I really, really like your Dead Boy Detectives art and I've been following it since the first comic with the soul orbs. I also like your different AUs and crossovers.

Could you write/draw a comic where Doom Patrol Charles meets Reverse Verse Charles? I think that could be interesting because those are the two versions of Charles who admit they're in love with Edwin, but also those two are on opposite ends of the emotional stability scale. That's probably not a good word for it-- what I mean is that DP-Charles seems comfortable with himself while RV-Charles thinks he's an absolutely terrible person, and RV-Charles is kind of manipulative at times while DP-Charles seems to be aware of others' feelings and gives them space.

Also, I think RV-Edwin and DP-Edwin might enjoy sassing each other too much.

No rules, just a lot of patience! Reading your comments always makes me happy, so I made this little thing very quickly :) I'm sure there's a lot of fun interactions for them to have, but it might take me a while to come up with more stuff.

I don't think DP!Charles has advice for RV!Charles... after all, they're kind of in the same boat. But maybe he can teach him a thing or two about giving Edwin time and space? I would love the see everyone's thoughts, because this seems like it could be a fun dynamic.

Thank you for the request, and to everyone else who sent me one: I live in shame. I will get to them.

ko-fi

[scenic-route33]

For me the icing on the cake for Clive in regards to him being reduced to desperation over the years as a result of his own choices is that he has no choice but to ally with Rebecca, who actually is the person he pretended to be in 2020. She has power over a good many people because they fear her, and she isn't at all hesitant to torture/kill in horrific ways if it serves her purposes. In many ways, he's essentially forced into Gordon's position in 2020: no real power in the situation, desperately trying to get the violent people in charge of him to stop locking people up, and his only friend has even less agency in the world than he does.

[t00thpasteface]

all of your post are making me want to watch M.A.S.H.... and I do really like stuff involving the korean/vietnam war.... do i do it?

it really is great if you already have experience with other art/fiction created during and after the vietnam war. Apocalypse Now comes to mind, but that really undersells how much of a total fluke MASH was for its time. i mean, it started airing while the vietnam war was STILL HAPPENING, and they HAD to keep it about korea just so they could get on the air, AND this was less than five years after the Hays code ended. it was the 70s, but it was also the 70s, you know?

you NEED to go into this show acknowledging that it was produced in a very very particular window of time; as much as we tend to think of pop media as existing in this anachronistic homogeneity wherein which things remain static for decades, that is not the case, and MASH is very very clearly a product of its time, as everything unavoidably is. general consensus is that the show really "grew the beard" around season 4/5 (the last 2 episodes of s4 are some of my favorite episodes of the whole show) but it's never perfect, and you shouldn't expect it to be. and this too has a metanarrative merit to it. we are all capable of evil (or just saying things in poor taste) even when our intentions are good, etc...

on the other hand, sometimes that's an incredibly impressive thing. watching MASH with a solid lens of its contemporary audience and culture will reveal all sorts of little shocks and rebellions that would seem tame or even regressive to a later audience such as us. if you have a cool parent or older friend/relative to watch this with who was alive at the time of the vietnam war and remembers seeing the dead bodies on the news every night, watch this with them. alternatively, check out commentary online by people in that age range, as well as writer/actor/director commentary if that's your bag (sometimes alan alda was all 3). enjoying antiwar fiction like MASH with that cultural context is like using one of those little decoder lenses on a cereal box or whatever. i said to another asker: "by 70s tv censorship standards, this show was basically on-screen gay sex and flag burning."

it's fucking uncanny when something in MASH strikes you and you can see how little has broadly changed in global politics since. and yes that's a tragedy. but i think there's a corollary to it:

[zoomclown]

Red Valley S4 E4 spoilers! :)

So hear me out.

Bryony didn't deserve it though.

Like yes, she went through exactly the same thing she put so many others through. Yes she fucked around and found out. Yes her fate is so so wonderfully poetic. But like. Nobody deserves that. That's the point.

When Aubrey first came to Red Valley, she interviewed a man who had killed 3 people. She decided that given his history and lack of remorse, she had no qualms about whatever happened to him as a result of the treatment. It was only watching that same man turn into a pile of human goo in her in her arms that she came to the conclusion that *no one* deserves that, no matter who they are. So many of her choices and actions that result from this realization center around trying to prevent suffering to others. Trying to change things so that people don't have to suffer, and then, when that doesn't work, offering people an escape from the suffering of the outside world.

It's very interesting to me that Aubrey is the person who now has absolutely no empathy for Bryony's suffering. That Bryony is the one person that Aubrey could leave to rot and not lose a wink of sleep over it.

Not judging her for it. Just interesting.

[neonsbian]

idk how many times i can say this but stop putting idols in blue contacts. just stop. please

[reestallized]

any thoughts on ingo?

I like to think that his eeby deeby happened between BW and B2W2…

so in Hisui. Rei and Barry probably go to the training grounds for his battle services regularly and also to chat about the eeby deeby experience… also before he returns to Unova he hands his warden title to Rei….

and in Gear Station, I like to think that most services were closed or something (just the ones where you’re supposed to battle Ingo) and only the ones where you can only battle Emmet/ regular train transportation services are still running,,,,

and the mandatory B2W2 battle subway part happens shortly after Ingo returns to Unova,,, Emmet and Nate were just so excited

I didn’t think I’d go on for this long on a guy I almost don’t care about but. Here you go. Train man

[stoleyourgender]

I personally believe more people should listen to red valley. more people should talk about red valley. more people should succumb to the insanity that is red valley and I'm not just saying this because I need more people to talk to about it

[yard-adjacent]

“He thinks this is enough…”

[thunderstomm]

Dash Wheeler and Professor Rearview, back when they were campers at the Ultimate Garage!

I wonder if they ever used to be friends, or if they were enemies from the start?

Original designs- I changed them a little but not by much (:

[scenic-route33]

I'm not getting over this I'm sorry bc what Bryony says to Warren in 2x06???? Is what happened to her????

"You've been a profoundly useful cog in the machine" "the best of you will fit comfortably inside a petri dish" "and no one will miss Warren Godby" She was wrong! They cared about him enough that they woke him up from hypersleep 44 years later!! The people here now care about him as a person, not as a nameless asset!! Hell he's even helping in the ward now!!

But Bryony? Taken in and out of the freezer by people who only cared about the answers she could provide, who didn't care how awful the cryopods were and were comfortable to risk her life for 40 years; she's more of a cog in the machine than Warren ever was!! And no one cared about her enough to look for her beyond her title as creator of cryotech, finding her was an accident!!! The fact that she's at the best place she could probably be in is down to pure luck!! And even then, they were prepared to force her to help them and then what? Leave her alone to fend for herself??

It's about the ✨irony ✨

[domoriu]

FAV RV SONG??? do u prefer the more sensual or r&b songs or the funky weird/cute songs i like em both but i'd personally give my left nut up for talk to me that's actually my shit i love a chopped and screwed moment (is that the right term...)

dont even get me STARTED on red velvet like omfg i love my cake girls 🫦🫦🫦 also i know what you mean!! chopped and screwed is a genre of music where the song is slowed down and also a type of remixing but if it actually sounded like what it looks like id agree that the talk to me instrumental gives that 😭 i like how it sounds choppy

my top fav rv songs… genuinely the hardest question ever but i think my top five as of right now (bsides) is 1. be natural 2. underwater 3. dont u wait no more 4. bing bing 5. i just/pose. also talk to me and little little are also on my top favorite bsides. and bye bye and zoom and look and knock on wood 😭 I JUST LOVE RED VELVETTTTT 😭😭😭😭

i honestly love red velvets quirky fun songs but i am a SUCKERRRR for their sensual r&b songs like i love a velvet concept 🤤🤤🤤 but thats also because r&b is my favorite genre of music in general so red velvet having the best vocal tones for the genre and great producers and creative directors… just perfection

[soyeonsbabygirl]

Reasons why joy and crush are a social experiment:

NUMBER 1

[littleplantfreak]

decided to leave my laptop home for once this morning and it just so happens the be the day i end up with enough energy to write 😭

[werepuppy-steve]

im going camper shopping next weekend and im very *happy flaps* about it

[clove-pinks]

My post from over a month ago where I ponder no news of Franklin Expedition wreck dives this year continues to get occasional notes, although I haven't bothered to update it since true Franklinheads are well aware that there IS a dive season this year (albeit with a late start).

The sites that will be explored are still somewhat of a mystery. Research Vessel David Thompson switched off her location beacon in the vicinity of the wreck sites (Logan Zachary theorised that she is headed for Erebus).

I understand why the location beacon was turned off (the wreck sites are off-limits and have local Inuit guardians), but it feels eerie. You go near the wreck sites and you fall off the map, outside of time and space.