#smart legacy

[puppysim]

stella + ladies = ❤️

[inkpotsprite]

Ra's (talking about Tim): he is a master strategist, always ten steps ahead, poised, calculating and collected–

Tim: *feral racoon mode activated*

[choccy-milky]

modern AU seb and clora's first interaction 📘📗 (and by modern AU i actually mean super trope-filled high school romance set in the 80's/90's LOL)

[boxdstars]

broke: sebastian is stupid lol

woke: sebastian is extremely intelligent actually

bespoke: sebastian is extremely intelligent, but is also stupid on the accounts of being a teenage boy

[5sospenguinqueen]

Sebastian: MC, the big question is, does he like you? 'Cause if he doesn't like you, this is all a moo point.

MC: A moo point?

Sebastian: You know, like a cow's opinion. It doesn't matter. It's moo.

Ominis: Have I been living with him too long, or did all that just make sense?

(MC regretting asking them for advice)

[thejudeduarte]

I'm so confused why does every HATE Lyra all of a sudden like-😭 I thought her chapters were completely fine lol, she seems really cool

[winteriron-trash]

rdj the (whitewashed) electric boogaloo

This is a reminder to everyone who's excited about RDJ's casting as Doctor Doom that this casting is whitewashing. Victor Von Doom is a Romani character and has been a Romani character since his introduction in the 1960s. (Fantastic Four Annual #2 [1964]) Not only that, but his Roma identity and the persecution he and his family faced due to it is integral to his character, it is what forms his identity. (Books of Doom by Ed Brubaker) Even if on the off chance this casting is meant to not be Victor but instead be some variant of Tony or whomever else becoming Doctor Doom, it is damaging to the character to rob him of that important cultural background. Doctor Doom does not exist without that history. Fans have been pushing hard to cast Doom as a Romani actor for years, especially since the MCU has whitewashed other Romani characters. (Wanda, Pietro, etc) This casting is not a celebration moment, it's fucking heartbreaking that the MCU repeatedly ignores the important and nuanced cultural backstories of characters.

I know I can't change anybody's mind on whether or not you want to be excited about RDJ's return to the MCU. But I do think at the very least you should be mad that the MCU is baiting us all and destroying nuanced and interesting characters for the sake of self-referential easter eggs and nostalgia bait. Because that's what it is. Feel how you'd like to feel about RDJ's return, but personally, this is soul-sucking. I had such a deep love for the MCU as a teenager, it was obviously something incredibly formative to me, especially Tony Stark. This isn't recreating what I fell in love with the MCU for. This is turning a well-planned and artistic storyline of adaptations into cheap cash grabs and fan service. Because, I think we're past the point of being able to call the MCU an adaptation of anything. They can use existing characters' names and powers, but to say they're being properly adapted is laughable.

This is not an adaptation of Doctor Doom. This is RDJ the Electric Boogaloo because Marvel's fear of losing the interest of dedicated MCU fans overrides their willingness to tell stories that are genuine to the characters. I don't know what there is to be excited about that. The MCU has lost its authenticity and aside from a few projects, feels heartless. Every movie is a copy of a copy. This announcement isn't something celebratory, it feels like a death knell of a cinematic universe that's so desperate to cling to relevancy it's resorting to nostalgia for a character/actor who hasn't even been dead for a decade. We're not getting anything new, we're just rinsing and repeating the same song and dance.

I get it. I love Tony Stark, his death destroyed me and I to this day, rue the ending he got in Endgame. It misunderstood his arc and it robbed him of a satisfying conclusion. But the solution to that isn't dragging the corpse out of the grave five years later to whitewash an existing character with rich and interesting nuance, just to forcibly tie his existence in the MCU to Tony. Whether he is a variant or not. Why would you want someone else's fave's legacy to be destroyed simply so your fave's legacy can go on? Hell, if we were really all so hellbent on the return of RDJ and/or Tony to the MCU, we have the multiverse for a reason. There were other ways to do it that didn't whitewash and ruin someone else. This just. Isn't something to be happy about.

[acslytherpuff]

when u forget that u have paperwork done by tomorrow. oops

pose by anghelahel

[zetadraconis11]

HL Incorrect Quote #90

Sebastian: I'm not that obvious about my crush on MC, right?

Ominis: It's so obvious, and I can't even SEE.

Garreth: It's true. You always sit next to her, you talk to her all the time, you even go out of your way to "run into her".

Leander: Doesn't...Imelda do that with you?

Garreth: No, she just happens to run into me whenever I'm leaving the Potions-

The boys:

Garreth: WAIT-

[never-enough-novels]

Umm so I was seeing avery's card and it's queen of spades and this is what it means

In cartomancy, the queen of spades is considered to be a sign of intelligence. It is representative of judgment that is practical, logical, and intellectual. It represents a woman who is creative and makes her plans ahead of time.

And I mean it makes a lot of sence seeing her chatecter-

I'll post more in the morning I gotta sleep more byeee

[dykedvonte]

In light of me being obsessed with House saying he started to see Benny as a son, House is a hypocrite in calling Yes-man a vanity project cause while Vegas is clearly his vanity project with all his plans for it, there’s something more subtly vain about trying to rewrite and recreate an hypothetical heir in his image that he clearly would’ve done with Benny as he does it with you.

[puppysim]

stella is entering her farming and canning era

[carnelianwings]

Something I find really funny is how for all the rumors that Seed’s staff/writers don’t like Cagalli, Orb under her leadership just keeps ending up in a better (political) position with each addition - Seed Destiny ends with Logos wiped out, Blue Cosmos severely hampered, and the entire Seiran family wiped out, including Yuna. This leaves Cagalli with almost no political opposition in Orb (since the second Battle of Orb would’ve flushed out a majority of the Blue Cosmos/Logos sympathizers within the government/military), along with giving her a boost in popular and military support thanks to her actions and field leadership during the battle.

(Cutting for me just rambling on a bit about the in-universe politics after Seed Freedom)

You can tell with how much she’s managed to get done in the years between Seed Destiny and Seed Freedom - in that short year and a half to two years, she was able to propose and found COMPASS, secret away and upgrade the Impulse, Destiny, Strike Freedom, and Infinite Justice, arrange for ties between Orb and Terminal to investigate/exchange intel (Athrun and Meyrin), and put into place all the evacuation/defensive protocols in case of another attack on Orb (as seen vs Foundation and Requiem, even if she needed Kira to pull an “I lived, bitch” to Aura 😅).

And it doesn’t end there - thanks to Foundation, Cagalli arguably has an easier time internationally now, because the Eurasian Federation leadership also got hit and the Eurasian Federation, while not necessarily Blue Cosmos sympathizers like the Atlantic Federation, was very staunchly anti-PLANT, which I think would’ve caused some problems for Cagalli, especially post Seed Destiny with Lacus joining her for that broadcast.

I actually think Orb probably has fairly decent diplomatic relations with PLANT (I think Chairman Lament mostly cut off that call after everything went south in Eldore because of the whole nuke situation), especially since Lacus is COMPASS’s inaugural president, plus the time both Dearka and Waltfeld (I’m not sure if he’s in Orb or PLANT as of Seed Freedom since his silent cameo has him helping to stop the coup in PLANT in Seed Freedom) spent there. And we have a very prominent all-Coordinator team with the Yamato Team - truth be told I actually wonder how much the Earth Alliance invested into COMPASS because everything we see on screen is either contributed by Orb (Archangel, Murrue and crew, Kira, Mu, and the Murasame Kais), PLANT/ZAFT (Millenium, Konoe and crew, Heinlein, Shinn, Lunamaria, Agnes, Gelgoog, and Gyan), or arguably both (namely, Rising Freedom and Immortal Justice). Unless I missed a minor crew member along the way. Which is possible.

Also pure speculation on my part on this - but the fact Seed Freedom has Athrun going into intelligence with Terminal (which we first see as having a presence in the PLANTS) from the Orb side and Yzak and Dearka going into intelligence from the PLANT side can’t be a coincidence. I want to think the three of them decided on it together because being in intelligence/covert ops gives them the chance to work together without having to force anyone to change their current loyalties - I don’t think Athrun can be truly loyal to anyone except Cagalli after Seed Destiny, and Yzak was always loyal to PLANT, and if Dearka hadn’t been captured and made to realize how extreme PLANT had become under Patrick Zala he wouldn’t have switched sides to Orb/Three Ships Alliance during Seed either. Which also indirectly feeds into Orb and PLANT having better political relations than Orb and Earth Alliance.

Which brings me to my final point - I would be very surprised if Orb isn’t the primary target for the antagonists in a Seed Freedom sequel. At this point Orb’s capable of doing too much with the limited resources it has as a small nation with too much military strength at its command. And there is room for a sequel (setting-wise) because while Earth Alliance took another major hit with during the Foundation Conflict, the ideologies that led to the First and Second Earth Alliance-PLANT wars still exist - even if Blue Cosmos lost another leader, even if the believers of Coordinator Supremacy lost another leader (in Jagannath) those ideologies still fundamentally exist. All the Foundation Conflict did was serve to take down the military leadership of those ideologies - even if the public on both sides see those views negatively it doesn’t make them go away.

[choccy-milky]

average seb and clora study session

[the-inheritance-games]

ya’ll…how did y’all solve the code…? 😭

I saw someone say in the comments that they added up the corresponding numbers to the letter in “HEARTS” like H=8 + E=5 and so on and it equals 71

But I just looked at it and saw 79, 57, … I noticed that the seven alternated so I was like ok it starts with 7 and then I saw that they subtracted 4 to get from 9 to 5 so I subtracted 4 from 5 and got 71….

Like I got it in 5 seconds but that was completely coincidental and im shocked with myself bc what lol 😭

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Gamzee promotes Faygo

GAMZEE: OkAy BuDdY! WhAt Do YoU tHiNk Of FaYgO?

KARKAT: NEVER TASTED IT.

KARKAT: [GETS SHOT BY CANNON]

GAMZEE: [PoInTs SaId CaNnOn ToWaRd ThE oThEr TrOlLs]

GAMZEE: NoW. WhAt Do YoU tHiNk Of FaYgO? 

GAMZEE: ThIs MaChInE wIlL mAkE yOu WaNt FaYgO. :o)

TEREZI: NOT M3! 1LL-

TEREZI: [H34RS GU1LLOT1N3 DROP]

TEREZI: -...H4V3 4 GL4SS R1GHT NOW.........

VRISKA: I’ve got four aces! Can you 8eat that?

GAMZEE: I’vE gOt A bOtTlE oF fAyGo!

VRISKA: [Gets shot]

GAMZEE: NoThInG bEaTs FaYgO! :o)