#so glad she finally realized

[psalm40speakstome]

[teiasviago]

“I’ve always liked Lady Whistledown,” Penelope said, her chin rising until her bearing was almost regal. She looked to Cressida, and their eyes caught as she added, “And it would break my heart if it turned out to be someone like Lady Twombley.”

— Chapter 11, ROMANCING MISTER BRIDGERTON

[thatcatbasil]

submerged

[good-beans]

Who was gonna tell me that Yonah FUCKS !!!!!!!!!

I finally sat down to watch it and sudddenly realized why it made people so upset with Kotoko -- it's "get the audience's ass" pt 2 (part one being Baptism of Fire)

What an Incredible, Precise, Scathing commentary on the public's view of punishment. On how we treat "justice" in the news when it's two parties we don't know. On how hypocritical we want justice but don't want our actions to have any consequences -- we want it to be done but we don't want it to be our fault. She makes a HUGE point about people ignoring mental stress and only feeling bad when people are physically suffering. Before getting attached, people did want the prisoners to get hurt and feel remorse. In real life people are constantly wishing pain onto wrongdoers so they change their ways.

She's making excellent points, as well as the voice drama overall emphasizing the fact that it's the right thing to do to get attached. She's 100% correct, but by framing her as a villain, Yamanaka encourages the audience that we should care about people. We should find out about everyone's lives and get attached before making judgements about them. This project remains about human understanding and love and I am amazed.

And from a character perspective, I just loved her view of the situation! I was worried from the bits of the vd people were posting that she was just going to be painted as a flat, villainous character, but she's so so deep. I love a character who will get their hands dirty to make a better world for the innocent characters they care about. And her speech when hugging Es really revealed how much that burden weighs on her. She isn't violent for fun. She doesn't enjoy it. But her heart is so broken by a world of injustice, she will take on this painful responsibility since she has the power to and others don't.

[cylonbarnes]

i love that i got my mother into big brother this year. she watches and enjoys and understands none of it. "was julie on this episode? i dont remember." julie is only on the thursday eviction episodes. it's week 9 and you haven't yet noticed this pattern. leah won HOH, but jankie world confuses mum: "does she get anything for that? immunity?" IT'S WEEK NINE SHE MAKES THE NOMINATIONS

[astralprisms]

Was wondering why this particular gith face always feels like it suits baldness best and then I realized it IS in fact Orpheus' face model, Orph just has different unique ears.

Anyway welcome back, dreadwolf.

[smallblueandloud]

had to kill this darling today, so here you go

Rachel nudges him. “Did you know, the vibe of your mind changes when you’re upset about Jean?”

He stares at her.

“It feels kinda like...” She leans her head back. “Like when you’ve had a busy week, and you’re going to have an even busier weekend, but for now it’s Friday night and you get to rest a little bit.”

Scott laughs in surprise. “You know, other telepaths pretend they can’t sense people’s minds unless they’re actively sending projections.”

“Yeah, well,” says Rachel. “Most people’s minds have something going on. You’re quiet a lot.”

Scott grins, shaking his head. “I see. You’re saying I don’t usually have thoughts in my head?”

She rolls her eyes. “That’s not what I meant and you know it.” Scott’s reminded vividly of meeting her as a teenager. “You play things close to your chest. I do the same thing, I’m just not as good at it.”

“That’s probably not a bad thing,” he says.

Rachel says, “I don’t know why you’re so afraid of me being like you.”

Scott suppresses his knee-jerk reaction. He turns away from her, looks out at the trees in the darkness in front of them. After a moment he says, “I don’t really understand why you’d want to be.”

He’s still not looking at Rachel, so he doesn’t see her reaction. “You’re still my dad, Scott.”

“Yeah, I am.” There was a time when she didn’t tell him who she was because she thought he’d reject her. He doesn’t want to ever prompt that doubt again. “And I’m grateful for that every day. But that doesn’t mean--”

[duckapus]

Thought up a few interesting things for the Squid Memes AU

1- Desti was an Elite Octoling back during Splatoon 1, and she and her squad (the three other Octolings that would go on to become the Octoposse) were among those who defected after the battle. Though interestingly, she didn't actually hear Calamari Inkantation like the other defectors, seeing as she was recovering from injuries she sustained fighting Agent 3 and thus wasn't present for the battle/concert. She just found out that her teammates were running away and was like "not without me you're not."

She's fully aware that Paige is Agent 3 (once she finally runs into them on the surface at least) and thinks it's honestly kind of funny that the so-called "Scourge of the Domes" was a freaking kid when they tore through the place, and that of all the people she could've gotten into a rivalry with it of course just had to be 3's big sister. She doesn't tell Meggy both because she's not about to out the kid like that and because it amuses her a little that Meggy doesn't know.

2- Axol and Pearl have been friends since they were kids, partly because I figure it would make sense if the tiny angry rich girl who sings too loud and the otaku who figured out fucking magitech and built a pen that could bring his drawings to life because he was lonely got lumped in together as the Weird kids nobody likes. Plus Marina canonically reads manga so even if Pearl doesn't like anime stuff herself we know someone else liking it isn't a turnoff for her.

3- So for this one I'm also pulling from Spongebob Squarepants canon because I needed an explanation for Heavy Squid and all the other Squidwards we see.

Okay, so we've seen in a few episodes of Spongebob that there are a bunch of squids/octopi/whatever Squidward's meant to be that look almost exactly like him. Obviously there's Squilliam but there was also that town of Squidward lookalikes he moved to once. Well, in this that's because they're not Squids or Octopi, they're instead a fourth (yes, fourth. we count Salmonids in this house) type of Inkfish that I'm tentatively calling "Schnozlings." In terms of abilities they're sort of a halfway point between the playable Inkfish and Salmonids, where they can live underwater thanks to having the right kind of respiratory system and thick enough skin to not get splatted by the ink-eating microbes, while also having Swim forms (which unfortunately aren't microbe-resistant like their humanoid forms).

Their swim forms are round, with six tentacles that all look similar to the long tentacles of an Inkling's swim form, while their humanoid forms are...well...Squidward lookalikes. Complete with four "legs," no fingers, a long droopy nose (hence the name Schnozling) and in a few cases the ability to grow hair on their heads like a human. As a side-effect of their microbe-resistant thick skin, most of them don't have any way to display their ink color in humanoid form, while their Swim forms are color coded just like Inklings and Octolings.

(And yes this means I'll have to redesign Heavy Squid to look less like Heavy and more like Squidward. But still big and muscular because that's his Whole Thing.)

[male--byleth]

ik lady's outfit in dmc4 is basically pure fanservice especially compared to her original outfit but look. it looks so good its probably my fave outfit of hers. she looks good in 3 and 5 but CMON. the matching shirt and shorts. the belts. the below knee boots. the harness. the gloves. THE GLASSES. that single button is doing so much work she must have insane trust in it BUT I DONT CARE IT LOOKS SO GOOOD.

its similar enough to her original design but shows how much time has passed since dmc3. it matches the games art style so well. its flashy and bold and maybe a lil raunchy but its executed so well. everyone in this game is very well designed but lady takes the cake. ...nero is second.

dmc3 lady cutscene

dmc5 lady cutscene

[arolesbianism]

Sits in shambles I didn't read maybe Jorge's id correctly in the mysterious hermit logs the first god knows how many times I read them and only just now realized that it's the same id as the scientist that speaks in the agricultural notes log why must I be so bad at reading

[emdotcom]

For years, I've been trying to put into words Why I give a single iota about Bendy & the Ink Machine, but it's such a tangled mess that no thread can be seperated -- they're all interwoven in a way that makes it hard to pick them out. The game, overall, makes me miserable, because I can see that there was love put into it, but a lot of it is thrown to the wayside in favor of a story that I think was retroactively improved by the sequel's recontextualizing of it, but is ultimately not worth the price of admission & majorly drops the ball.

It's easy to list things I don't like about it -- the gameplay is sparse, the combat is uninteresting, none of the chapters feel connected, the bugs that assault all my playthroughs & kill my saves are consistent & fill me with dread every time I open the game, the lack of thought in the contents of a chapter (chapter 3's wheel ""puzzle"" & the animatronic Bendy from chapter 4, in specifc, really grind my gears), which speaks to the amateurish & rushed way that the game was crafted -- there's a lot to hate, & it's easy to hate it. But I don't. Despite all that, I am compelled by this game, by what it's trying & failing & trying again to say.

It's really easy to understand why you dislike something. I couldn't have told you much about what I did like, in Ink Machine.

& then, I played Dark Revival. I didn't realize I liked the story of Ink Machine, until I played Dark Revival. It's a better made game, it's just not fucking interesting, to me, because it doesn't have a story worth tuning in to.

[rebisgender]

istg every time my mom talks about trans women it makes me want to run away aaaaaaa

[permanentreverie]

I HAVE NEVER BEEN A HAPPIER GIRL. EVER.

[maskyartist]

"hey Masky how do you feel about the v9 finale?" well-

GOIN ABOUT AS WELL AS IT CAN

[sugaroto]

The new episode of high class homos is so beautiful

It's painful also, but in a beautiful way

It's... somehow happy

[cabeswaterdrowned]

I think it’s so incredible that you people will have discourse about every other character and pairing and why they’re morally awful to you but Don’t have this attitude about the ship where a male character tries to pressure his fwbgf to have and raise their baby and reacts horribly to her decision to get an abortion because he was such a Nice Guy Sweetheart Prince (in your mind apparently) before this happened 💀.