#sorry went on a little rant there-

[child--ish]

I noticed that I have a very big inclination to see stuff as family, like I see Kazu and Beidou as son and mother (Ning being the other mother) and Lisa and Razor also as mother and son, I also strongly believe that Cyno and Razor 𝗮𝗿𝗲 related in some way, & if that's true, she also can potentially be to Cyno, too! And I see Collei, Nari, and Cyno as like they're her parents and it's cute and stuff! I also hope with all my heart that Ei and Scara will be happy some day. Oh, and ALSO, I see Xiao, Hu Tao, Zhongli (Ganyu is also thrown in the mix) as a happy family. And Diluc and Kaeya as adopted bros. oh, oh! and Furina and Neuvi as father and daughter.

So, yeahhh, a BIG tendency to see stuff as family–

Also! for those who like Zhongli fam here

It's a fic about them with a little bit of chili sprinkled in =)

[ganondoodle]

got this reblog on one of my posts were i talked about being anxious about the future of the zelda series after totk and-

i even went back and unblocked them just to check my own post and check twice what they meant exactly- but i still dont know how they got to these conclusions

i never said i 'want a good uwu ganondorf' (bc that would mean hes aligned with hyrule bc thats how goodness works!!!!11!1!!!), i also dont think of any of the zeldas as 'whores' (seriously, where did that come from?? neither me nor the addition of someone agreeing with me said anything like that??? did they think bc the addition called tloz misogynistic means we think zelda is a whore????? huh???)

its also funny how they say they want zelda to stay a simple fairytale rather than have 'people like me' bc .. one point i talked about in the og post was how the evil arab thing VS good white people media likes to do so much is so normalized here that its simply seen as a simple harmless fairytale trope instead of a big underlying issue in general media and the writers might not even realize it (which is worse) bc the most 'generic' appeal is to people who dont think of it as a problem in the first place, because it is so normalized

(huh, i wonder about what kind of person that part was about .. hmmmm)

(ALSO funny they mention princess hilda as nuanced villain ... like ... wow they are so nuanced about purple haired people!!- like guess why we want a nuanced/less badly/less flat written ganondorf and what he, in particular, has not in common with other villains! its not his hair color! .... or was that point supposed to mean .. look we have one female character that is a villain, its not misogynistic! idk honestly)

(and the classic, "you just call it this/dont like it bc its not what you wanted !!!!!!!2!"1!112!!")

also funny how its 'never gonna be progressive enough' like asking for the franchise to maybe put a little more thought and nuance into their white divine right vs evil desert man simulator instead of making it worse is already asking too much

(i dont know what the last point has to do with anything??)

(also yes totk is racist, like most if not all of the franchise and a alot of other media as well, shocker- you can still like it though, i and plenty of other people are still fans of it, we just wish they did a little more with their stuff and maybe not make the racism problem WORSE)

(also yes the hyrule monarchy is also evil :))) )

(and also not so secretly so either :)) )

[sorrelpaws]

no offense but i genuinely fear that their potential dynamic will go severely underutilized

[yesterdayiwrote]

I think George has not given any public reason to hate or like him in an over the top way. Like he is just there. His comments are harmless, he is not problematic, he is not doing over the top community work, he keeps it to himself, and his car all year has been top midfield, etc. People often dont put him on top bc he is forgetable, not in a bad way. He is PR trained, but so are the other 19 drivers.

I mean, let me be totally clear, I think George is probably a menace. He probably IS annoying in a bit of a devious and cheeky way, but he's not hurting me when he's doing it, and if he's only using his powers for evil against the other vroom vroom millionaires then... fine. Doesn't bother me in the slightest, because honestly it's of no real consequence to anyone. It's all a game and it's not that deep.

I think the post about George seeing the stewards room as an extension of the race track is spot on and to be perfectly honest, if he's using his knowledge of the rules to make persuasive cases to the stewards then I have no issue with that. Its no different to Max using his knowledge of the rules to report other drivers, George has just extended the usefulness of that skill. All good drivers do have a level of cunning that they employ to their advantage and its honestly funny that the two drivers who seem to have made the most noise about him doing it - Max and Fernando - are the two drivers who themselves use shithousery to their own advantage.

That's personally why I've always been drawn to George, because he IS a bitch, he does fight his corner, he's not afraid to get his elbows out but he's not an asshole with it. The only time I've seen him really lose it - with Valtteri that time - he's apologised profusely for since and taken ownership for.

I think he doesn't get his flowers enough, and that's why it was so nice to hear so much positivity about him after Vegas. I'm not saying he wasn't on one in Qatar, he probably was high on his own supply a bit, but it's been a long season and I can't fault him for wanting to win.

I don't know why some people hate him so much - the criticisms he gets levelled at him are such a contradiction it just feels like he can't win. He's too fake and PR, but he wears his heart on his sleeve and is overemotional...? So we're just hating him for not striking the perfect balance of composure are we? He seems to trigger a very specific type of toxic masculinity within certain F1 fans?

But as you say, for now he seems utterly harmless. Genuinely enthusiastic about racing, eager to please, up for a laugh, even if it's at his own expense. Maybe he doesn't get it right all the time, but none of them do, and despite weird journalists claiming otherwise, he does genuinely seem to get along with all of the other drivers, or at least make an effort too?

[smuggonifico-lmao]

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I have finally decided to put my knowledge as a occupational therapist in training to good use and made a little comic about some ADL (activities of daily life) things!

The little cutting aid Leo is using in the last panel is a cutting board with an extra board that has spikes on it. The spikes can be used to impale something, an apple in this case, so its easier to cut it apart with one hand! Also the cutting board has little anti-slippery thingies under it so it doesnt move around while trying to cut something. There are so many things that people without disabilities take for granted, me as well, that we would never notice!

This is @intotheelliwoods Little poptart btw! He is great for demonstration purposes since he only has one arm and also is a little guy and i love him <33

Those cutting boards with spike and anti-slipping aids also exist in real life and are used by people who have problems with motor functions in their hands or are missing an arm/hand alltogether! You can also put toast on it if you wanna spread butter on it or other things to cut apart.

I think anything that can educate and empower a person to be more self confident, self sufficient and independent in what they do is important and more people should have access to aids like these if they need it!

Im gonna link an english website that I found (i apologize for lack of ressources, i am german and mostly only have german one sbdhwbch) and if anyone wants to, feel free to add your own ressources as well! Also if you know that these websites might be shit, also feel free to tell me *insert keysmash* (though unfortunately these can get so fucking expensive, though we learn in our training as well how to make lots of these aids from scratch for our clients!)

[starzknight]

Disney princess with a bit more accurate outfits...

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[lollytea]

Unfortunately due to TOH being cut short by Disney a lot of character arcs and more storyline could not be fully fleshed out and finished as Dana had to wrap up everybody’s story in just a few episodes

I'm fully aware that Disney's intervention is responsible for a lot of the plotlines getting suffocated. Which is why I don't think it's fair to go harassing crew members with "why didn't THIS happen??" and all that, because nobody really knows what they endured working on those final episodes and how much they had to cut and rewrite. But from things Dana has said, it was likely a very stressful and exhausting experience. So I don't like to make assumptions about the crew being incompetent. Nobody knows how the season WOULD have turned out if they had been granted full creative freedom and breathing room to develop it to their hearts content.

However, me not directing personal ire towards the crew doesn't mean that I think that the show is immune to criticism. Its flawed. It might not be entirely the crew's fault but that doesn't mean we can't talk about how it's flawed. If anything, I think acknowledging and dissecting its weaknesses is a good learning opportunity for what we should consider when creating our own stories.

Season 3 is a bit of a mess. There's good stuff. There's some less than good stuff. I think ultimately, as a story about Luz, King and Eda, it knocks it out of the park. When they were left with no other option, they decided to prioritize the writing of their three protagonists and I think that was the correct choice.

But I've been thinking about the three specials and how they stand on their own, quality wise, and honestly, there's valid criticism to be said that is completely unrelated to the shortening.

Bear in mind that the crew has known since Follies that the show was getting cut short and they needed to start wrapping up loose ends. So it's not like they started writing Thanks to Them believing it was the first of 20+ more episodes. They knew that they were going to be writing a 40 minute special. So the execution had to be tight, concise and satisfying, right?

Well...it was....weird. Definitely fun. Good for fan service. The main hook was the witch kids navigating the human world in their dorky witchy way. And initially, that was enough. But once the novelty of that wears off and we focus on the plot of the special, what do we have left?

Thanks to Them is very guilty of lore baiting. Dropping in stuff that they know damn well that they're never going to elaborate on, leaving the audience with a feeling of intrigue that is never going to be satiated.

I personally think that is just bad writing. They knew they didn't have a full season 3 and rather than rewrite the means of which the hexsquads finds answers, they still made the choice to drop in what are most likely vague ideas from the initial draft.

I think, if they had no intention of developing it in future specials, there was no point to that scene of Masha telling the Wittebane story. It was just...filler. To stretch out the running time. Which is....kind of precious. Only 40 minutes. If you're obsessive enough about lore, you already knew the story from the Hollow Mind paintings. That scene was for casual viewers. Which is useless, because there's no point in casual viewers learning about Evelyn and Caleb because it never went anywhere.

Also. I personally think that if there was any value to learning the Wittebane lore without making it plot relevant, it would be for the sake of character development. We wanted to know how the kids would react to this knowledge.

Well how did they react?

*Shrug* They seemed a little unnerved but they kinda forgot about it the second they got off the hayride.

So what was the point of all that? What was the point?

Is it because we wanted "Goodbye, Evelyn," to be more of gut punch?

Was it worth it? Was "Goodbye, Evelyn" worth it? We know fucking nothing about Evelyn.

I think the rebus was a stupid and lazy means for the kids to discover Titan's blood. You introduce this mysterious object that was hidden under the floorboards and then you just use it as a plot device.

When the kids uncover the rebus and find the secret code inside, the viewer is not thinking about how it can be used as a means to an end (finding blood) The viewer is thinking "what the fuck is that thing and how did it get there and how did Flapjack know it was there?"

Questions that will not be answered <333

ALL IM SAYING is that I'm sure the crew could have come up with another way for the kids to have a Titan's blood treasure hunt. Maybe they could have dug a little more into the history of Gravesfield and follow leads on weird things happening on this one spot in the graveyard (which turns out to be because there's magical energy there, revealed when Luz realizes she can use glyphs)

I just think that if you're gonna leave the mystery box a mystery, you shouldn't have included it.

And I know. Its subtle storytelling. There's elements of what could have been a far more complex story and they're leaving hints of it here and there.

Well the thing about that is I think the hints are very unsatisfying and weaken the episode's plot significantly.

Also I don't think they should get to just pick and choose what parts of the lore are subtle and what parts are ham-fisted.

YES we are going to be reminded like three times that Flapjack is being secretive and hiding things from Hunter.

NO we are never going to get a payoff for that because he gets shanked and dies first.

BUT!! BUT!! If you squint, its IMPLIED that Flapjack belonged to Evelyn and blah blah blah

You don't get to rub things in the audience face and then choose to be all subtle about it at the last minute. Pick one or the other.

Anyway....I think they could have written Thanks to Them as more of an intriguing and suspenseful horror mystery where they spend forty minutes gathering clues and everything finally clicks together at the very end. That's not what we got.

We got a very weak attempt on the Hexsquad's part to be little detectives, but like a minute of screen time was devoted to them dicking around in a library, a costume shop, and a zoo.

I don't think we can blame the shortening for this.

[hptrash-lookaway]

There’s this thing I see on tiktok a lot (no idea if it’s also here on tumblr), where the Dumbledore bashing extends to it somehow being his fault that Regulus went to the cave and was killed, and I cannot fucking stand it

First off, not a fan where the tiniest bit of canon we get for those characters is rewritten, and second, that takes away from the coolest part of Regulus’ character, this was a guy, completely by himself, where the family he talked to and all his house members and any friends he possibly had were all loyal followers of Voldemort

And he decided, without that connection to Dumbledore or anyone light, to defy Voldemort in a huge way, and he also somehow figured out that the locket was crucial to Voldemort staying alive

(Voldemort letting his followers be aware of his horcruxes but not what they actually are seems to be a trend, if you believe he didn’t tell Lucius what the diary actually was, or Bellatrix what she was actually hiding, but Regulus figured out the locket on his own)

And he did all this for his house elf, a creature no one else would’ve even thought twice about letting Voldemort kill

Making it so that Regulus knew about the horcruxes and went to the cave because of Dumbledore takes away how amazing it was that he decided to do that on his own and how smart he was to have figured all that out

(On this note tho, real quick, I don’t think that just because Regulus found one and got close to destroying it, that it would make him this amazing horcrux hunter compared to Harry)

[sage-is-in-fact-very-tired]

✨️jazz hands✨️ wow I wish I could just I don't know, fucking finish my milk in piece without it all being linked back to me wanting to play on the computer. like yeah guys good association its definitely true for sure guys you're so fucking smart huh, not like I maybe, I dunno know, just wanted to finish my milk and also get things done on the queue. not like thats a thing I could do. nope not at all for sure you're so smart thinking you know everything going on in my brain

[beautifuldreamertwisteduntome]

THROWING MY THOUGHS IN HERE

1.Floyd should be Poseidon, Poseidon is annoyed more than anything, at Odysseus. I think they have a similar philosophy towards ruthlessness. I think the mood shifts Poseidon has are very similar to Floyd's. Do I think Floyd would stay 8 years in front of Ithica? Well if he was an immortal god with no real perspection of time then yes.

2. Azul should be the Siren, she is trying to convince and manipulate Odysseus. She gives him information in return of him jumping into the water. The sirens use their voices to decive and try to convince the sailors not to kill them. And if he had let them go, it would've off to find the next poor unfortunate souls.

3.Jade should be Scylla. Scylla seems very calm at the beginning, apearing more dangerous and aggressive as the song goes on until the end where it's calm again. You could make a case about Floyd's mood swings here, but I think Jade's whole thing is keeping a calm composure regardless of the situation. Apart from the fact he's insane. Scylla's lair is calm, something lurks under there and it causes a sense of unease, until Scylla just goes "Hello" and starts collecting sacrifices. That little interaction reads to me like Jade's idea of a fun time.

No hate if you decide to do something else I just wanted to share my thoughts

Ooh! I love hearing your thoughts about this, anon!

I really agree with Floyd’s, like I imagine him as Poseidon a lot, mainly because of the mood swings but also because I love like the mental imagery of him being like giant as Poseidon and snapping his teeth at the crew during the ‘Guess the pack of wolves is swimming with the sharks now!’ But also like this guy pissed him off and hurt someone he cares about, what’s eight years to an immortal deity if it means settling a score? Probably barely a blip in the radar.

Azul being the siren is interesting to me honestly! Like part of me can imagine him as Scylla if only because of all the arms and tentacles, but I agree with a lot of people that the siren would fit him more because the siren tries to manipulate people with their voices and information, just like how Azul in canon manipulated people with information they needed (the study guides) plus the fact that Ursula disguised herself as someone Eric wanted (the mysterious voice) and the siren disguised herself as Penelope who Odysseus desperately wanted to see

Jade, gives off a very uneasy feeling in a lot of ways and would honestly fit with Scylla I feel, like in the beginning she’s calm, she’s soothing if a little eerie, but there’s small tells that there’s something else going on underneath that you don’t want to witness. Like in book four, how Jade talks about how he’d ‘lash out with a torrent of unmitigated verbal abuse to break them down mentally, then bind them and drag them beneath the waves.’ Which Scylla does, at least the dragging them beneath the waves bit. Scylla gets her sacrifices, and so will Jade. It only depends on who’s holding the torches in the end.

[socially-awkward-chocobo]

Just a passing thought - but you know how Ayano has bad grades? And how it was so bad she was in summer school even though it was the start of her high school year?

How much of that was because she was genuinely having trouble with school and how much of it was because of Kano replacing her so nobody would notice? Kano - who to my knowledge, didn't go to school.

I could be wrong, but I don't remember Shintaro saying anything about her grades becoming bad in high school, it's safe to assume she was already struggling beforehand, but would she have been getting grades as low as 56 (a grade seen in Toumei Answer) if she were attending school regularly? Or would they at least be passing?

Just a stray thought that keeps bugging me.

[ganondoodle]

i guess in that sense totk really delivered on the botw2 thing

if you see botw2 not as in "direct sequel that builds on the previous one" but as in "this game again but different" (and worse) that is

so much is repeated, or replaced with things functionally the same or worse but with a paintjob, sometimes even just the same thing again (like the luminouas stones and sonanium (zonaite) and the special horses) often times essentially the same thing but worse or without any background or even both (i didnt even like revali, but man having his efforts to create the updraft cheapend by tulin, a waht, 10 year old? doing the same just vertical without even havign to try bc hes jsut that talented tm- not only worse as in its less useful and often annoying with the bad control scheme, but also has basically no background, no struggle, and makes revalis seem kinda stupid)

and in the end, instead of uplifting each other, the games cheapen each other, its not interesting anymore, nothing means anything and there was no intention behind it, any mystery that was intriguing in botw has ceased to have meaning, its either nothing or answered with 'the sonau (zonai) did it actually' which is not jsut boring, but frustrating, and .. sad ... i dont think it will ever not make me sad.

[kaidabakugou]

the new girl at one of my favorite bakeries called me pretty this morning and it literally melted all my stress away 🥺

[ratatatastic]

"Who's idea was it to put the cone on your head for the parade? Was that all you?" "Zach Eisenberg [Director, Executive Operations]—I think is his name—he takes care of us a lot at Amerant Bank Arena. I don't know his exact role with the team but he's just kind-of always around, and helps us out. He's friends with Brooks [Koepka.] I think he helps Brooks when he comes to the games. Anyways he found a pylon or I think I might have told him—I was pretty drunk at the time but I think I told him to go get a py—'if you could find a pylon, find one!' 'Cuz they sprung that speech on me, kind-of, last second, you know, five minutes before I was supposed to go up there. I'm like, 'What the fuck am I gonna say?' So I had him go grab the pylon and I grabbed it on the side of the stage right before I was gonna do my speech. And luckily all the clips are of that, you know, me telling him to go fuck himself... 'cuz the rest of my speech was terrible. There's really nothing to it! And I'm so happy that, you know, all the clips are only of that so!" "Yeah, we didn't know you said anything else! I thought that was the entire speech!" "That's all that matters!" "Exactly, exactly! I got away with it there!"

The Cam & Strick Podcast | 7.30.24 (x)

i love finding out they basically told ekky he was gonna have to do a whole speech 5 minutes before he was up while hes been drenched from rainwater and alcohol for like the past 6 hours absolutely pissed out of his mind like yeah no wonder his speech basically culminated to THANK YOU SOUTH FLORIDA AND ALSO GIVE IT UP FOR MY D PARTNER WOOOOO yeah that tracks

"But what golf tournament* were you at shortly after that? Somebody was dressed like a cone? Was that Lomberg who was dressed in like a costume? A cone costume?" "He came—Brooks came up to you—" "No, that was his buddy, that was his buddy. He was actually a Sunrise police officer. I actually saw him last night at the Zach Bryan concert! But yeah, no, that's one of his buddies. No, he was completely put to bed the day after. Right? Like he texted me—I personally didn't care, like, how many people at a hockey game are calling me a cone and telling Barkov he's got no hands like it's—you know, that's hockey. That's sports, right? So I didn't give a shit but—yeah, no, it was all in good fun. And then I got a way to get him back! It's perfect!" "But when you did see the first video of him in the box—and I remember watching that, I'm like, 'this motherfucker is rolling esctasy!' His eyes were fuckin' gigantic, he's like, 'Aaargghh.' Like, 'I can't take him, he's calling me a cone! I can't—' But that is kind-of odd that a professional athlete is gonna call you a cone and he's like a fan of yours...it's just—it was really bizarre!" "Goofy!" "Yeah..." "And his eyes were black which, you know..." "What does that mean?" "I just know what that means... and he was fucked up, you know..." "Yeah, yeah! He was definitely fucked up and he agreed that he was fucked up. And he apologised so I didn't care, obviously. And then when I was at that golf event I should've thrown a beer at his backswing or something—at the LIV event when he was actually competing? I should've fucked with him but I couldn't do it... I couldn't—I couldn't find the courage to throw something at him..." "So did he reach out to you like that night? And say, 'Hey, dude... I was just joking, you know...'" "'I took some pills and...'"

*2023 LIV Golf Team Championship (Miami) held from Oct. 20-22 in Doral

[and i suppose more context here lombo and koepka are friends and he even showed up to his cupday when he went golfing in parkland and not to mention that lombo facilitated koepka apologising to ekky so its why the whole cone costume came to be really]

theres a lot more context about this incident and the ensuing storm after it so for archival sakes here are articles about it (x)(x)(x)(x)(x) because its quite a saga but its water under the bridge and there's only so much tabloid-esque coverage thats been reignited after the ekky speech i can take about an athlete who's dumb enough to insult another guy while hes drunk off as his ass in a fucking public setting

but anyways i think its really funny that i said to myself wow thats an oddly petty thing to admit to you know the whole wanting to throw a beer at his backswing ekky... for such a good vibes sweet man who like the only thing youve particularly said about the cone novella is "we'll never be buddies" to which you quickly retracted and then went "holding ill will against somebody and pulling negativity in your body is never a good thing"

and then i remembered who he attended the liv event with and it all made sense

behind every aqua whos being a little mean there is a much worse much more evil looming presence who is encouraging them down this dark path (a gem but especially a june gem)

truly a tale as old as time

[yuttikkele]

Minors entered the sk8 race, and Reki said anything goes so that’s the consent. Adam can touch anyone.

I get that, even though it’s still weird, a different topic for another time…

What I was wondering specifically is why everyone in-universe is only worried about Adam hospitalizing people and not yknow him literally grooming Langa (on AND off the track). It’s not technically against the rules of S what he’s doing (he made the rules I don’t think there’s a way he can break them), but The GangTM still doesn’t like him because he’s an awful person. The only thing is for some reason when they talk about how they don’t like him, they ALMOST completely overlook Adam’s weird innuendos toward teenagers (except for Miya that one time cause he’s just cool like that).

There probably isn’t a real answer to this question out there yet, but maybe hopefully the creators will address it someway (hopefully put Adam in intensive THERAPY) and not have Adam just do that and everyone think it’s normal (it is not). Though if the underaged characters aren’t allowed to drink, I’d assume the rules apply to all minor-protecting laws.

[ayakashibackstreet]

Listening to a video game talk in the background of my work and like... were smartphones already so big in 2013? As in, widely adopted to the point of high schoolers bringing them to school? Was that an America/Western Europe thing? I know I have memory issues and 2013 just so happens to be the time that I have trouble remembering but... really? 2013? Was that a thing? Maybe it was and I just can't recall? Uhhh?

I know me not having a smartphone in like 2015 was weird, to the point where I was the 'retro tech' guy back near the end of middle school but... uh. I'm a little confused.