#so this all theoretically makes sense?

[thespicybumblingbee]

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[tooturtly]

It just occurred to me that, most likely, the Lyctoral hoods are polyester. Like, the way you would get that gauzy, thin, oddly colored material would be through polyester and artificial dyes. I can’t imagine the Houses have strong silk production, or even high quality linen that could be thin and gauzy.

There’s just something about the literal symbols of sainthood, a role which is about killing planets and prolonging the life of an all consuming empire, being made of plastic, a material which pollutes and kills planets, oddly fitting. And also something I had not considered before.

[galactaknightyaoi]

When I first got into Kirby, I didn't expect to like, actually get into it. I thought it'd be like any other hyperfixation I'd had up to that point, that it would go away within a few months and I'd never think about it again.

Given I was so deeply in denial, I didn't care about being fully accurate and had some stuff that was really goofy and/or underdeveloped and unexplained. Stuff I'd made up to just work for the limited time I would be there.

Still, I came up with a few headcanons that I got attached to, and when I started realizing this was here to stay, I still chose to be stubborn and had to work backwards to keep these stupid headcanons, but adapt them into something a bit more fitting and polished.

It led to some cool stuff, like for example, my orbs aren't very magical, this was something I had settled on early on. But after I got invested, I had to think about what that actually meant and the implications of it like, how can they do this without magic? And what about that? What about this canon thing, how do I explain it?

I found decent enough explanations for all of these. But as a result of my unserious beginnings and continued stubborness, now I get really embarrassed at the time to actually talk about my headcanons and the stuff I've come up with.

Because what do you mean your Galacta Knight is half-dragon?

[zukkaoru]

ohhh you guys are reading bsd without suspending your disbelief. you guys are expecting to get a clear cut perfectly understandable scientific explanation for something that can't actually happen in the real world, and then you're upset when you don't get it. you're forgetting that bsd has always had fantastical elements in it and it is not meant to be a 1:1 replication of Our World. you don't have to know and understand every single scientific concept being talked about in the recent chapters; you just have to be able to get the general idea and realize that this isn't the real world, so it won't make sense by the standards of our reality. then maybe you can stop whining about how nonsensical all the dialogue is and start appreciating the story itself

[galacticlamps]

Hi there!

This is the hotly anticipated post I said I was eventually gonna make discussing netflix's recent Dead Boy Detectives series in conjunction with 1960s Doctor Who, especially the Second Doctor's era, his companionship with Jamie McCrimmon, and the concept of '6b' (the dubiously canon continuation of Two's tenure, post-War Games but pre-regeneration, which has a habit of capturing the imagination of BBC-licensed writers and fanon alike).

It grew!

Considering what it's become, I wish I could say it amounted to something more useful than that - some really grand analysis beyond "Hey, I noticed I like these two things for a lot of the same reasons!" - but however long it's gotten, that's still all it is or was ever meant to be: a Disclaimer of sorts (Which is why I might pin this).

Although I never have tried to make this a single-fandom-specific blog, I do realize that Classic Who is both mine & my mutuals' main interest on & use for tumblr. And it's not that I feel bad about posting unrelated stuff when it comes to Dead Boy Detectives - I do 'unrelated' all the time, nothing wrong with that - but I do think I've failed, so far, to articulate why this particular thing doesn't actually feel unrelated at all, to me, and I often think of the two in very close conjunction these days.

It's gotten super long, so I've broken it up into parts, which are each their own posts, linked below - partly just so it's less annoying to deal with than one giant textpost would've been, and partly because (who knows?) maybe some sections might actually stand okay-ish on their own, if anyone happens to be interested in engaging with them - BUT, at the end of the day, it really was intended as one continuous thought (which, lol, is why the organization never got any better than what it is). I obviously love a bit of media analysis myself, so I'm sure there are moments where this slips into sounding a bit academic, and I did occasionally have the urge to commit to that route more fully (I'm sure you could fish the rough sketch of a couple different essays on themes & character development out of this if you wanted to) - but as I said before & had to keep reminding myself: this is, at best, an explanation of this blog's perspective, and as such wouldn't really be appropriate structured into anything more serious than that blog itself. And this is not a serious place!

Part 1: The Obvious (a thing about form & content) [1,419 words]

[I might add a genuine Sidebar later - general points of what I meant re: the role of Character in 60's Who]

Part 2: The Superficial (& the challenge with that division) [895 words]

Part 3.1: The Themes & 6b (three guesses what those are lol) [1,455 words]

Part 3.2: The Themes Again (but now applied to the basics of the dead boy detectives' universe) [1,448 words] Part 3.3: The Meaning/How It Connects (+ a little spoiler warning for the next part, if anyone cares about that sort of thing) [595 words]

Part 4: The Meeting (this one's the more typical gushy tumblr post, retracing the beats of Charles & Edwin's introduction to one another, with a very obvious eye towards similar resonances in The Highlanders) [1,288 words]

Part 5: Where Characters Go From There [655 words]

Part 6: In Conclusion, The Differences [1,267 words]

[indooroutdoorboyfriend]

it's Harassing You o'clock so i am gonna discuss my oc some more in the tags

[spaceandbones]

where the fuck are you from that everyone needs a passport? Europe??

😠

1. Dont ever accuse me of being from europe again 2. We dont NEED them its a fucking. Government issued travel document we just HAVE THEM

[wawamouse]

spent a bunch of time trying to figure out the Oz Macbeth rehearsal timelines (what with people coming and going) before i decided i don't care lol. what i did learn is that the character who plays Lady Macbeth is apparently named Stein.

Now here is a picture of Miguel reading his script:

[unopenablebox]

anyway i spent too much time reading offbe/at wedding and now i’m involuntarily scripting out my online cancellation in a universe where i for some reason send in our wedding to them to profile but get called out for asking them not to refer to it or us as “queer” anywhere in the article

[i-am-church-the-cat]

Okay no one talk to me bc I haven’t watched the race yet but I just finished Nightbane by Alex Aster and am currently Losing It. I need the third book rn.

[princemick]

the worst part is how much it feels like its not my fault bc I did so much work and I put so much energy into this and I genuinely cared so much but now I have to fit it into this mold of research that doesn't work how my brain does and I wanna fucking bite smth its so unfair

[gelarshiesprofruitboarder]

every time i try and actually think about gender stuff i always just come to the conclusion that its all stupid and pointless which probably isnt the best stance but also wtf else am i supposed to do at this point

[trans-soapberry]

the ending of i saw the tv glow fucked me up because in a meatphor sense she's going to spend the rest of her life in misery because she was too afraid to embrace her true self. her happy self. and in a literal sense she's LITERALLY being buried alive which is like top 100 fears of mine and the fact her inhaler stopped working which is like. the sign that she's losing oxygen kept me up at night. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAA

Ourgh yeah the burying alive is. Fucked up if real! But personally I've said before but I do see the ending as not Great but at least hopeful, I think even if she doesn't accept herself right away she's going to at least try to like, find people who can help her, because she is screaming for help at the end, even if no one responds. And that's much better than suffering in silence. At least, that's if you assume her life outside the Pink Opaque is real in some way, which tbh I do. I think even if she were to bury herself like Tara, it wouldn't perfectly put her in Isabel's body, and she wouldn't be young again. Idk I'll say that I think the world of ISTTVG is supernatural and sitting within unreality rather than full fantasy, and neither The Pink Opaque or "Real Life" is fully true. I think they blur together one way or another

[ajdrawshq]

update on building isat characters teams btw. siffrin has 11 pokemon and counting (help)

[crazysodomite]

programming is scary because i understand it in theory but when i see how its actually written i get scared

[ectonurites]

almost 4am can't stop thinking about the meaning of the idiom 'to have blood on [someone's] hands'—to be responsible for a person's death—combined with the fact that Zach is the one we are specifically shown with Daryl's actual blood on his hands (once for real and once in a dream)... Not Josh who had been holding the sword Daryl fell onto, but Zach who took the sword out.