#sam's silly rambles

[xialing-gf]

can i be so nerdy for a second but the way phil talks about TV and interactive media makes me so so so fucking happy like as a TV studies nerd

this is one of the essays we had to read in my television detection course about early interactive television and like even just hearing how phil would eat a carrot alongside bugs bunny when he watched tv when he was younger to making interactive adventures on video media through youtube to translating that into interactivity in in-person performances on stage and in interviews just makes my stupid little nerd heart sing with joy!! also i think phil's "arthouse era" is a masterclass comparative uses of youtube in comparison to traditional television.

also the use of TVs on the terrible influence set, like old-school TVs used to project modern media and also references to how TVs were considered like the "idiot box" because it was considered mindless or even harmful entertainment that could influence young people in bad ways and how in only recent years there's been an emergence of "prestige tv" and a shift towards television being a more legitimized form of entertainment and that's kind of been a shift that youtube has followed as well!! anyway sorry i just really really love television so fucking much

[fox-guardian]

starting to feel like part of the reason that Sam and Celia's romance thing feels a little off rn is cuz like. what do you mean they're actually dating. he asked her on a date and she said yes. and it's working out so far. it's chill and fine. what do you mean they're not pining for 4 seasons, not communicating, and then getting together only after one of them walked through hell to drag the other out and make sure they know they're loved and wanted. they haven't even patched each other's wounds yet hello. aren't y'all moving a little fast.

[snufkins-boot]

Dc x dp idea: time travel yaaaay

Danny, Sam and Tucker get back from fixing some errors in the time line in France just before the French Revolution.

And sure Danny got mistaken for a French aristocrat that had died the day before they got there but it wasn’t to bad, it only made their jobs easier. It won’t be a problem for them.

Meanwhile Constantine, Batman and whoever the fuck else (imma say Hal, I love that green bitch) are exploring an abandoned manor in France after there being reports of strange, violent activity, and with their latest teammate Phantom not picking up their calls Constantine had to pull these two with him instead.

“Hey guys, Phantom’s a ghost, right?”

Hal sounds hesitant as Constantine replies

“Yes, why?”

“I think I found a picture of him living.”

and there on the wall is a picture of a long dead french aristocrat, with black hair and blue eyes but every other detail the same as Phantom’s

There on the wall sits a photo of Daniel Nightingale, a teenager who was possessed by a demon and killed two servants, then himself.

[starsillys]

MWUWHEHEHEBEB SCHOOL DOODLEUS ‼️💥💥

RAGGHHAHGHAHGH CRAZY

[blueberrythefrog]

Got inspired from another user turning him into that one frog that stares at you. (Don't know who you are, but thank you for your service), so here, have autism kinitopet creature Alt Without the Text:

[basilbots]

That's it? That's the conclusion for these characters? That was just retroactively making multiple arcs feel pointless.

So they killed Nexus. Not really a surprise, but not any less disappointing. We have Nexus' entire story now, and it is extremely unsatisfying, New Moon having so much promise and an interesting direction for his character only for that same character to be quickly assassinated for the sake of Old Moon returning. Full rant undercut. Primarily making this just to vent out a lot (but not all because there's too much to talk about) of my feelings regarding Nexus.

Let's start with just New Moon, I'm going to admit I did not like the concept of him first. But not actually because I disliked NM as a character, but because Old Moon's death bothered me. It felt like OM was so bad that they didn't want to go through the effort of having him improve, so he was killed off instead so he didn't have to do any of that, escaping responsibility. We'll get back to that point later. However NM itself was fun, and I especially enjoyed seeing all the struggles that came from OM's existence how it influenced his relationship with Sun how NM tried so hard to not be like him while also having to fill that role.

And then Solar died, and New Moon spiraled in his grief. He was devastated, he felt like he had to fix it, nightmares and hallucinations prevented him from moving on, and he understandably lashed out at the others when they tried to stop him for a reason that boiled down to "but killing is bad though". Let it be clear that yes yelling at his family was bad and hurt them, but painful arguments in family esp when fueled by grief like this is a normal thing, and tbh nothing NM said was worse than things OM had done not out of grief but just out of anger. Which makes the fact this was treated as a huge deal that meant NM was being cut out of the family for worrying, and later on EXTREMELY worrying when they pushed the idea of KILLING him. What the fuck. For what, because he was Planning on doing something morally grey that Unintentionally could have greater spanning consequences? You can't just stop him normally we have multiple characters pushing for murder when we just established that murder is bad? This whole execution of NM being terrible and so big a threat that killing him was on the table is so forced and rushed, I hoped it was just a fumble of an execution to get to Nexus who would have a better arc, but now I can't help but feel that they were just trying to get rid of NM regardless of if it made sense. Because at this point he hadn't really done anything to warrant this, not up until the last moment when he didn't care about Earth being in the line of fire, which we immediately see him regretting in the next ep until Dark Sun comes along and any regret has "mysteriously" vanished.

Dark Sun is a great example of Nexus' development being littered with hints that things are not as they seem and that Nexus' downward spiral is being influenced by something,,, which never gets seriously addressed as to why Nexus happened. From the start NM's descent is called sudden and extreme, we see Dark Sun obviously manipulate the situation to make this all happen, we see Nexus' head literally being messed with by Dark Sun, Nexus starts messing with a power known to be corrupting, etc. Is any of this ever treated as a potential reason or Nexus' behavior? Nope! He's just evil sorry. We shot down the idea of a virus or Rex infecting him while pointedly ignoring nsp potentially affecting his mental state or Dark Sun clearly manipulating him. Let's just ignore how much this switch up doesn't make sense because we need to make Nexus feel irredeemable and that he did all this himself for Old Moon to come back.

Because oh yeah Old Moon came and even though he sucks he became the better option even before Nexus did anything because ??? it's been a long time so we have all forgotten how bad you were. Mr beats his brother regularly, literally threatened to murder Sun for not being able to control Eclipse, last moments with Sun was trapping him in a box and wrecking his mental state further. Yeah that guy has been treated as better than New Moon ever since NM yelled at Sun and Earth y'know when he had barely done shit. The point I made about how I felt like Old Moon's death was a way for him to get out of improving himself? Yeah that's validated now, because OM is successfully doing that even more egregiously than I feared originally. He literally got to swoop in as the better option not because he had actually improved himself, but because time has made us forget how bad he was and Nexus is being cartoonishly evil in comparison. I hate this. And now with Nexus dead and Old Moon for sure staying around I can't help but feel like New Moon's existence was,,, pointless. A year's worth of character development from one of our main protagonists down the drain because it was all just a buffer of NM doing the work of improving as a brother for OM. New Moon's gone and Old Moon has taken his place as totally improved Moon brother, but we've swapped out the identity struggle with NM to OM failing to not be a dick to Sun multiple times. But this has yet to be addressed because it's small potatoes and unlike with Nexus he's only doing this to Sun so who cares right? I would say New Moon's personal issues also end up never addressed, but they do actually! All of his fears regarding his place in the family came true, but he's dead so who is going to talk about that now.

I could go on about how much Nexus did not do enough to earn his death, that having Nexus' main targets being Ruin and Old Moon while he didn't hurt his family nearly as much did the opposite of make him feel irredeemable, that Moon being the main protagonist pushing for Nexus to die while everyone else had conflicted feelings did not make me cheer for Moon it made me want to see Sun punch him, but I'm going to refrain and focus on how Nexus' being dead and gone ruins arcs for me. So New Moon was pointless and just a set up to make Old Moon look better when he came back, but surely Nexus did something for Dark Sun's plans? ... Dark Sun didn't have any plan beyond making Sun kill Nexus, and left with an air of finality that even for a chronic liar makes me doubt he'll come back in the capacity I want him to? Oh. So the Nexus arc didn't have a point either, and Dark Sun feels lackluster if this was really it. Nexus was just a spare Moon for Sun to kill against his will, and since Dark Sun doesn't seem interested in using that as a way to personally manipulate Sun further into hating Moon's or anything like that Sun is just going to be sad he killed his brother… Just like he was when Old Moon originally died. If I were to be extremely pessimistic and oversimplifying things I'd say this just further proves New Moon shouldn't have been a thing at all, they should have just waited a bit for OM to be revived after he died to have this same effect with Sun mourning.

The thing that will (just barely) save New Moon/Nexus for me, the thing I wanted to wait to see the follow up for (before I realized this rant was too long already and got impatient), is how his death personally affects the characters. All of them. He needs to haunt the narrative for the rest of the story just like Old Moon was doing. Nexus was not just an antagonist, he was not just the obligatory villain of the arc that got fumbled as has happened before, he was our main character for a year, he was their brother for a year, and he should be remembered as such. The family should remember their young brother that they failed (because they do admit they made mistakes with Nexus even if it wasn't the leading cause to his fall) who will never come back, and he should not be completely forgotten in a months time just because Old Moon is here to be the good Moon brother now and Nexus died a villain. If no one cares to remember him, who he was, then what was the point of him?

[lunar-solarsystem]

(click on pictures for better quality + full picture)

mini comic for Lose Clarity - a gift for Eclipse!! Puzzle made him a friendship bracelet :D

they accidentally spelled it as “EclipzƎ” with the letter beads, but Eclipse doesn’t seem to mind :)

extra :3 - Eclipse secretly keeps the bracelet, hiding underneath his wrist ribbons securely so it doesn’t slip out and off his hand (and to make sure no one else sees it)

explanation for Eclipse and Puzzle’s relationship below:

with Puzzle technically being Ruin’s child, Eclipse (and Nexus, even previously as Moon) has never been fond of Puzzle. Eclipse hates Ruin, and he saw Puzzle just as a smaller version of Ruin when he first learned about them.

These two’s relationship started to grow more whenever Puzzle started coming around more often, usually out of boredom or just for fun if Ruin was off doing something and/or was occupied. (In the mini comic above, Puzzle decided to make friendship bracelets in their free time; one being for Eclipse as seen here). Eclipse never wanted to, and probably never will, admit that he started to like Puzzle’s company, sorta like Earth as well - and tbh, Eclipse and Puzzle’s relationship could end up being explained with this meme (<- i thought it could fit)

Eventually, Eclipse (sorta similar how he did Earth) grew a small soft spot for the kid. Eclipse ends up being one of the people who tends to Puzzle, whenever (Ruin is missing.) others are occupied. Eclipse has also taught Puzzle a few things here and there that Ruin may or may not know about :) Eclipse is also the person who Puzzle is comfortable with later in the timeline. Eclipse keeps them safe in the future.. (for certain reasons…)

tbh, part of the reason Eclipse hangs out with Puzzle is to spite Ruin-

i mean who said that??

(…no one tell Ruin-)

[moonlit-dreamers]

i need yall to understand just how badly i want solar and eclipse to get into a physical fight

but none of it is actually serious or harmful and its just them aggressively rolling around and (depending on the day) throwing petty insults at each other

like this is how i imagine theyd fight

theyre just lil guys. they just fight each other sometimes. just get a bit silly sometimes

also thank @basilbots for reminding me how insane i am over this. also thank them for saying that the lil head waggle of that one cat is like their rays spinning/flaring

[saturnneedsspace]

Everyone's talking about how Destiel/the Destiel meme was trending on here because of the Trump attempted assassination, but I haven't seen anyone mention the fact that Sam and Dean were litterally arrested in the show for "trying to assassinate the president of the United States"

[honeysbunchesofoats]

I want to know what psychology researchers will think when they look back on Sam Reich, the master tormenter on Game Changer and of Brennan Lee Mulligan specifically, and write papers about his nefarious experiments

[starheirxero]

I wanted to hit Monty with a golf club when he was being ruthless to Bloodmoon. I understand that Bloodmoon and his brother weren’t good people, but to do this to him is just…

I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT TBH YEA.

Icl I usually take the podcast eps with a grain of salt because, to me, they read more as, like, the VAs going "look at our character. now look at us poke fun at them in ways we can't normally do without it being wildly out of left field" yk?? and they're the funniest gd thing ever to me as a result I'm sorRYRHAHAHAHA

BUT FROM A LEGITIMATE IN-UNIVERSE LOOK. IT MAKES SENSE BUT UGH YEA MY HEART JUST BROKE WATCHING THE COMPLETE TONE SHIFT BETWEEN THE BREAK. They took it all in stride and they handled every question pretty well! Even though the Bloodtwins were very clearly being picked on, they had each other to bounce off of and it led to fun bickering!! But without the other twin, he's just so..... quiet. It's almost eerie in a way I can't quite place, yk?

He has no one with him to go "psh these fuckin dumbasses. these idiots. we could tear them to shreds," because now when he thinks that, there's just an echo. There's no new quip. There's nothing to bounce off of. It's just himself, just one in a body more comfortably inhabited by two. and it makes me so ueueue

[symbiotic-slime]

I bought more venom merch and my mom just sighed and said “everyone’s gonna know you as the purple haired venom person” in a disapproving tone like that isn’t what I’m going for

[fox-guardian]

i am going to pet sam on his silly little head i love him so much. ough.

[basilbots]

Also rip Nexus lost to negative star power addiction 😔

[twilighttrekkie]

Sam & Max: Freelance Sburb Players

I made godtier Sam & Max because the brainworms told me to

Sam is a Mage of Breath, and Max is a Prince of Time!

Dear Sam & Max fans I'm so sorry for Homestuck-ing them /silly

[moonferry]

so i downloaded some mods for sdv rigjt? and like everything + the update being relatively new, it's bound to have some bugs. so here's a few screenies that i found hilarious from my time playing around:

for the first two, i downloaded the polyamory mod and lets just say sebastian got.. a little confused. first he learns to levitate and then he decides to work on his motorcycle - which has mysteriously turned into sam's skateboard ramp.

and then shane just decided to do a jesus cosplay.

update: my spouses keep glitching into each other 😭 this is too funny o swear