#spoilers AHOY

[fearsomeandwretchedandwrong]

Okay so here's a spoilery rant so warnings for that.

Go no further if you want to avoid spoilers.

Why is Izzy being portrayed like a victim? He is the dude who sold them all out to the English, his betrayal started this whole thing. He is also the guy who sent Ed on a fucking downward spiral. He got the "real Blackbeard" that he wanted and he should suffer the consequences. I feel absolutely no sympathy for him and I don't understand why anyone one the crew gives a fuck about him either.

[azriona]

Upon seeing Deadpool & Wolverine

I have thoughts.

Okay, that was hysterical, I giggled through most of it.

Hugh Jackman can continue playing Wolverine for the next 90 years, indeed, especially if he keeps taking his shirt off.

Anchor beings? OMG, that is the dumbest plot device I have heard in forever, and I've written a sex pollen fic.

Also I don't trust Paradox, I think he's lying to everyone, partially about the anchor being thing, and also about why he wanted to destroy Wade's world. We saw at the end of the movie that he's capable of lying and even making it sound good. There's a reason he wants that world trashed, there's a reason he wants Wade specifically moved to 616, and there's a reason he's been dumping people in the Void (including all the other Deadpools and other assorted characters). And I don't believe for one second it's because Logan was an anchor. One person in all the world and without them the world fails? COME ON. That was contrived the minute it came out of Paradox's mouth.

Apparently B-15 is in charge of the TVA, or at least the internet seems to think so? I don't actually get why everyone thinks that? I figured she was higher up the food chain, yes - but I didn't think she was the one IN CHARGE of everything, so I'd really like to know where that came from. (And just investigating Paradox isn't proof; she could do that and still not be in charge of the whole TVA.)

And finally, nothing I wrote was Jossed and actually I think I have one tiny plot device in a fic solved now, so yay.

[queenmeriadoc]

Time to watch episode 1, the episodes are titled in Norwegian, so it

«Alvekonger under det blå»

[socially-awkward-skeleton]

chapter 31 is outlined

- Kit wakes up on top of the truck she was pushed onto, it’s snowing and the bitch is pissed and sore

- Staci’s torture vid still gets played for the county to eat popcorn to. except Staci’s torture isn’t just starvation anymore, he’s undergone further conditioning and is now doubly nuts and twice as committed to the cult and to all the Heralds (including Kit) *needed the opening for Judge!Staci in the New Dawn AU*

- Kit breaks in to save the poor brown eyed baby boy, and offers a prisoner exchange, but Staci begs to stay with Jacob and make himself useful and worthy of entering the Herald’s gate

- Kit goes to execute Eli (offering to do it without the use of the music box, girl is nothing but devoted) and in her state kills the two militia members who try to stop her

[jolikmc-stuff]

Ace Attorney Objection Maker - "Turnabout Gamble" by Jo Li KMC on YouTube

On-site version here.

"The time has come," the yuckster said, "to talk of many things.

"Of bets, and games, and litigation. "Of McNuggies and Drift Kings."

[the-dood]

The Super Mario Movie is an Entertaining Speedrun

The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a highly anticipated animated filmed made by Illumination and backed by Nintendo themselves in order to prevent another Super Mario Bros. 1993 film disaster from keeping them from bringing their IPs to the big screen. Initial reactions were mixed on the casting, from negatives (Mario) to positives (Bowser), but upon watching the film in my local theatre, I’d say Chris Pratt was fine, even with the tease with the iconic falsetto tone near the beginning of the film with the commercial. Jack Black on the other hand, absolutely kills it as Bowser, even gets his own musical number.

The pacing of the movie is--as I said--basically a speedrun beginning from the journey to the Mushroom Kingdom with barely any breathing room for the characters to interact. Mario barely just met Princess Peach and the two were already fast friends throughout the film. On the other end of the spectrum, Donkey Kong and Mario’s rivalry is a bit natural as they occasionally butt heads at each other while not stomping Bowser’s troops. Luigi, I feel that he could do a little more in the film, being stuck in the cage in Bowser’s castle for 1/3rd of the movie’s runtime before having his big moment with Mario near the end of the film. It’s a shame, but Charlie Day is a great Luigi.

The beginning of the film does a good job portraying the Mario Bros.’s humble beginnings as plumbers in Brooklyn, NY, and showing their brief relationship with their family. It does touch up upon Peach’s origin, seeing that she’s not a native of the Mushroom Kingdom, but my biggest gripes about it is the absence of Toadsworth, Peach’s longtime caretaker, debuting in Super Mario Sunshine. I get that Toadsworth hasn’t been in any appearances in future Mario games as of late, but the best Nintendo and Miyamoto could do is at least remember him. The second oddity of the film is the relationship of Mario and the Kongs--namely Cranky Kong. As you know in the games, Cranky Kong is the Donkey Kong who Mario (as Jumpman at the time) fought to rescue Pauline--who makes a brief cameo in the film--during his time as a carpenter. Cranky in the movie does not recognize Mario, either he is senile, or a different Jumpman fought him and the current Donkey Kong as the film established DK as his son.

The visuals for the movie is what I expected for a big budget animated film by Illumination: stunning, with a lot of visual easter eggs only hardcore Nintendo fans will get, me included. However, the use of slo-mo in some part of the action can be a bit overdone and break the immersion.

Finally, the music. Overall, you can hear familiar Mario tunes throughout the movie arranged and orchestrated to fit the mood of certain scenes. However, there are also some licensed music that I feel are unnecessary as the familiar video game tunes are fine enough by themselves.

All in all, my final score for the Super Mario Bros. Movie is a 7.5/10. Sure, the pacing is not for everyone, and not everyone who isn’t a gamer will get the references, but it’s does what it do as an entertaining kids movie. I don’t expect it to be a total blockbuster and win critic’s heart, but as a Nintendo fan since childhood, I loved every second of it.

[mostbrilliantidiot]

Latest train wreck of a show I can't exactly recommend, but it's compelling and amusing. The Boys It's a shit show. Definitely check DoesTheDogDie well before ever touching it. (seriously. there's heavy stuff that a lot of viewers will want to avoid) But if you're looking for bastardy bastards doing bastard things and then having a bad day? Yeah it's that sorta show. Points that do recommend it:

The acting (evil superman's actor in particular delivers a chilling performance throughout)

It's funny (really it is)

The characters are interesting.

[dihalect]

i am. thinking about the twin towers being shown in death note

[mizra-asgardia]

I GOT IT. FINALLY CAUGHT THE DAMN THING.

[crimeronan]

the silt verses season 3 + dying words.

brother philly:

adjudicator cross:

carson:

rane:

val:

shrue:

hayward:

faulkner:

carpenter:

.....and finally, a bonus.

our final girl.

paige:

[sugarpasteltmnt]

I hope this doesn’t come across as pushy since you’ve already answered the question about a Neon Void sequel, but I was wondering if you’d ever consider writing epilogue one-shots? Like instead of committing to a full story just doing some small slice of life snippets :)

There’s so much of Neon Void I just adore! And the story just ended so so perfectly, I loved every bit of it! Your an incredible writer and I’ve hung on to every word :)

Also slight tangent but the scene with still feral Leo biting Raph in fear just hurts me so bad. That his immediate response is absolute panic and regret at hurting « his red » is so so sad. This bois trauma response is gonna be insane.

all good! in all honesty, the follow up fic would just be one-shots haha. i have no plan nor desire for another long plot for Leo's recovery days. it's gunna be all about him getting some much deserved TLC hehe 🩵

and THANK YOU SO MUCH 💘💞💖! i'm so glad you like it!! and oof yes yes yes love me some feral snaps with instant regret chaser it's delicious 💞

[leomonae]

Astarion final endgame conversation: "you're precious to me, I don't want to lose you"

"I hope we can find a place for love in our new whatever this is"

"You mean too much to me to just walk away"

Astarion, six months later APPARENTLY: yeah I still think of you sometimes too, it's too bad things didn't work out for us but oh well what can you do. So how've you been these past six months! Let me tell you all about my standard friendship ending, since we haven't seen each other since, uh... that conversation where we agreed to try and work things out and I said I wouldn't walk away from you.

Cheers, Larian.

[golvio]

Since Echoes of Wisdom is a top-down Zelda game, I’m not expecting the game’s story to be super complex or involved, but I’ll admit I am curious about certain characters & implied background events.

In particular, I’m curious about who these three unique NPCs from the Gerudo Desert region are:

The woman with the golden trident is most likely the current Chief, given that I’ve seen screenshots of her standing up from a throne holding the trident aloft are circulating around. But who are those other two people?

I suspect the woman in white might be the chief’s sister, since her hair resembles the chief’s hair and the gemstones she’s wearing are the same color as the Chief’s. Also, Nintendo would not have the gonads to put an official confirmed lesbian couple in their kid-friendly game no matter how G-rated “This lady’s the queen and her wife is also the queen” is as a concept. However, the woman in white also seems to be a person of importance to the Gerudo given that the guards are answering to her. There was mention of an “Ancestral Cave” elsewhere in the trailer. Could she maybe be a high priestess or keeper of some sort of sacred site of worship or burial who acts as a spiritual leader to the community?

As for the figure in blue with the gloves and the hat—they’re definitely also Gerudo, but they’re dressed in a very unusual way that sets them apart. My first guess was that this was an older woman, maybe the chief’s mother, who’s acting as an advisor given that they were standing next to the throne in the aforementioned screenshot. However, they don’t look that old, given that we’ve seen old people with wrinkles in Zelda’s court in the form of Imoa and her brother, so I have another guess.

This person might actually be a boy, the current Gerudo prince, who’s either too young to take an active part in political life, or is maybe the younger brother or spouse of the chief who’s relegated to acting in a more supportive role because of his age and gender. Their style of dress is much more formal and masculine, being somewhere between the draped turban and robes you’d expect Indian royalty to wear and the iconic blue and gold khepresh crown that some Egyptian pharaohs wore.

It’d be really interesting to get some insight into Gerudo politics, particularly if a prince who isn’t Ganondorf is involved! Also, partly because it’d give us some insight into what “went wrong” with this particular version of Ganon if we have a baseline about what the role of prince in Gerudo culture is normally supposed to be like.

Speaking of Ganon, assuming he himself isn’t just an “echo” sent by some greater force, it looks like he himself might’ve been actively looking into whatever force Tri was connected to based on how the tablet behind Zelda in the room where she was being imprisoned resembled the waypoints Tri can use to warp you around.

Given that the Rifts seem to be “stealing” land tiles and making phantom echoes of monsters, and that the rift opening ability is tied to Ganon’s own “wand” that he uses to cast spells, could he have his own little helper buddy who’s given him the power to play Sim City in his own little pocket dimension? Is Ganon’s motive like the angry guy from the popup window in Sim City 2000, where he’s picking up his toys and starting a new Hyrule in the Dark World because Zelda’s dad cut back on transit funding for that year’s budget?

Seriously, though, it’d be really cool if Ganon functioned as a “dark mirror” to Zelda during what will presumably be his actual final boss fight. (Come on, do you really think he’d be fine with playing second fiddle to a new antagonist if he had even the tiniest glimmer of his original personality left instead of being a soulless shell like in ALBW? He’s absolutely gonna be the final boss.)

[quicklikelight]

Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Marcille Donato/Falin Touden Characters: Falin Touden, Marcille Donato Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Post-Canon, Character Study, POV Marcille, Time Shenanigans, Inspired by a Chappell Roan song unfortunately, everyone loves the mismatched age trope right?!?!, RIGHT?!?!?!?!?, girl she's an adult now it's time to hit it while you can Summary:

Realizing Falin isn't a child anymore means recognizing that Marcille is running out of time.

A pre-canon, canon, and post-canon fic that explores Marcille's perspective on their relationship.

It’s finished! Thanks so much for your patience, and I hope folks enjoy. <3

[hyperfixssession]

you guys I promise I am rooting for the Hephaestus crew but Daniel ‘let’s go be monsters’ Jacobi-

[ah0yh0y]

Hands down one of my favourite details in Across the Spiderverse is the fact that when Parvitr refers to his aunt may he puts her name first.

the line is “…have chai with my Maya Auntie”

Maya Auntie not Aunt Maya

Maya Auntie

and can I tell you my heart screamed with joy

this this is how us south asians refer to our aunts and uncles related or non related

and I love that they actually adhered to that