#same with chess

[horrorfan212]

Time to see if watching california split will finally teach me how to play poker

[boatemboys]

elon: are you saying all democrats are gay

connor: i think everyone is gay

elon: are you gay?

connor: no

[notbecauseofvictories]

Watching this again, it becomes incredibly clear in s3 that Nate is teaching Parker how to run her own crew. He fully anticipates that she will be his legacy, and more than anyone else---more than Sophie or Hardison, more than Eliot (though I would argue that Eliot never even slightly wanted it)---he is teaching her how to take over, think like he thinks and plan like he plans. He fumbles some of the emotional stuff, never actually tells her explicitly...but by the time you reach s3 he's clearly all-in. He's decided. Parker is going to be Nate 2.0, with different more exciting bugs than the 1.0 version.

[sainz100]

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[horsemeatluvr23]

watching docm77 vs the other hermits is like being in a daycare and all the kids are learning their abc's except for one child in the corner who just reinvented the atomic bomb

[rad-roche]

very charmed by the idea of nick pulling out little half-moon glasses to read a document and gloria getting so mad about it that she develops a headache

[unloneliest]

in the lonely hearts club job leverage asks the question "does romantic love exist?" and answers it by having eliot buy parker a venus fly trap on hardison's behalf, expecting no recognition and revealing eliot remembers a throwaway comment parker made on their second job together.

we all know this.

but was anybody going to tell me hardison already had a browser window open looking for restaurants to buy eliot in portland in response at the start of the episode immediately after that? or was i supposed to figure it out on a rewatch all by myself?!

[turtleblogatlast]

Man “Battle Nexus: New York” was a great episode but I do have one major gripe with it.

Like. Raph being paired up with Ghostbear? Makes sense. Works great. Works amazing, even.

Mikey being paired up with Meatsweats? Yeah that checks out!!

Donnie getting…Hypno…? I mean. I guess Donnie doesn’t like magic so it kindaaa works but Kendra would have been a much better choice to me personally. Maybe Big Mama didn’t wanna include a human or something…

And Leo getting…uh…one of the Sando Brothers???? Of all villains? Nah let’s be real, his main villain is more Big Mama herself (or Leo could be considered his own worst enemy lmao-). Hell Hypno would have probably worked better here considering their shared love for magic tricks and stuff, but Carl Sando????

[redbean-nom]

din djarin, age 10: clone wars refugee child

boba fett, age 11: in federal prison for destroying an entire venator while trying to kill mace windu

[thespoonisvictory]

GOD the Jaime-Cat Dungeon Scene (tm) is so good. We spend chapter after chapter watching Cat in utter conflict with herself, torn in different directions. She wants to find her daughters in King's Landing, to go to Winterfell and parent her sons, to stay with her dying father, to mourn her recently dead husband, to be an advisor to her son and brothers that they actually listen to. She is trying to be a mother, a daughter, a sister, to both nurture and council Robb. But it's too much, she can't do all of it.

Meanwhile, Jaime is locked in a dungeon for the entire book (very wife in the attic of him) and yet scarcely goes a chapter without his name being referred to by one person or another. He's practically present in conversations with Cersei and Tyrion, for how much they evoke his name to try to convince the other of something. Others think of his battle prowess, or want him dead, or share the story of his evil deeds, and Cat isn't excluded from this. He's a symbol more than he's a person, a token, a bargaining chip. Never to be harmed for fear of the Stark daughters' lives, but completely trapped by his own status.

So this makes it all the more satisfying to see Cat, in a fit of rage and grief, go downwards to question him at last, after hundreds of pages of this evocation of his name. She's tired of the lack of movement, of the posturing of the men around her, of all that she has lost and had to shrug off to keep going. And what does he tell her? That there are too many vows, too many promises that conflict. He says that honor is too much, that he could never have kept all the plates spinning. That it's too much!!

After a whole year of endless loss and fear and feeling completely alone, one visit to this symbol of a person and he completely and transparently spells out her entire deal, so much of her internal anguish. And then he looks at her and says that there are no men like him, that no one else would get it. like oh my god. george!!!

[brawlite]

Stiles and Peter having a bonding moment over (spins wheel) chess?

"Sooo, the pony goes what way again?"

Peter takes takes a sip of his wine and looks out the big bay window in the study of the pack house, keeping his eyes away from the chessboard, away from where Stiles sits across from a some important higher up in the pack they've been negotiating a treaty with—a pack member who took a particular liking to the Hale emissary. For the sake of diplomatic relations, Stiles had politely agreed to one game of chess. But it's Peter's chessboard in Peter's study, so Peter had insisted on supervising.

Peter listens as the man explains the rules to Stiles. For the third time. Far too patient and indulgent for anyone without an ulterior motive. He's also bad at keeping his eyes away from the slope of Stiles' pale throat.

"Why don't you put some money on it, keep things interesting?" Peter suggests boredly.

He swirls the wine around in his glass and doesn't look away from the window. It's spring outside and beautiful, all of the animals crying out for mates. Including the one across from Stiles.

"Oh, I wouldn't want to take advantage," the man says. "It wouldn't be fair."

Peter looks away from the window, fishes a fifty out of his wallet, and puts it on the table next to the marble chessboard with a placid smile.

"You're right, of course. But it's unfortunately my duty to support my pack."

The man chuckles, the allure of easy money tempting. The fifty is matched and they begin playing.

It doesn't take long, even though Stiles normally likes to play with his food.

"That was fast," Peter says, re-setting the pieces on the chessboard after the sore loser has stormed off into the night, fifty dollars poorer and humiliated by Stiles' expert trouncing.

"I didn't like the way he talked down to me," Stiles says. "Or I would've dragged it out.

"I didn't like the way he looked at you," Peter says plainly.

"Like he wanted to eat me?" Stiles asks. "Oh, are you the only one who's allowed to look at me like that, big bad?"

Peter flips one of the knights around in his fingers, the marble cool against his skin. He places it down in its rightful place on the board, meets Stiles' gaze, and smiles with all of his teeth.

"Tell me, Stiles, which way does the pony go again?"

[help me write! shoot me an ask with a writing prompt for something short, and i’ll try and answer it!]

[drakonovisny]

if i had a nickel for every time a dragon age protagonist kicks off the plot by disrupting a big magical ritual that ends in mass destruction, i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but weird that it happened twice

[chessboredom]

The Soul Jams in CRK are literally like the fucking Brilyantes from Encantadia. Damn.

[stars-and-branches]

"he would not fucking do that" but its me reworking the fic im writing because I originally had Tim doing something early in the morning despite knowing full well that he would be honk-shooing it face-first into his keyboard for like ten hours instead

[neitherofusideal]

I think I've seen this film before...

[the-woman-upstairs]

Daniel taking more of a backseat during this session is, IMO, not only in deference to what is a highly traumatic memory for Louis, but also a calculated move on his part that speaks to the longer game he’s trying to play. He wants to take down Armand and remembering San Francisco just made it a real personal vendetta. But Armand can deflect Daniel’s blunt provocations (or at least suppress his reaction to them) pretty easily so that’s not going to work. Armand’s only weakness at this point in time is Louis. So it’s not only essential that Daniel stay on Louis’ good side, but also carefully nudge Louis to seeing the darker side to and duplicitous nature of Armand’s actions. This has already proven to work for him: at the end of episode 5, Daniel, in an uncharacteristically gentle tone, calmly led Louis to the conclusion he already reached about what (who) happened to both their memories. He’s indeed very careful all throughout the recollection of the trial to not be too flippant or interject too often. But when he does, outside of a few exceptions, he deliberately calls attention to Armand: his position in the narrative, the scope of his actions, emphasizing what he failed to do. It’s not quite enough to completely turn Louis against Armand, but seeds have been planted and I don’t believe it will take much more nudging from Daniel to send it all over the edge.