#super relevant

[nessagates]

Wishing you the best in the worst way✨

[irenespring]

Today I would like to shout out that one random Twitter person who made up that JD Vance bragged about fucking a couch.

Imagine making a random shitpost and less than two months later your joke is being used by a major party nominee for Vice President on live television at his introduction rally, earning him thunderous applause.

That poster must be having quite the experience.

[phibsies]

nobody asked, but all the bros have nicknames for Branch :3

[forgettable-au]

Do have any ships in mind for the au?? Whether background ships, main ships, or otherwise, or is there none?? Or do you have some planned but can't tell us bc it'd be a spoiler

There's not gonna be any ships in this AU!

I love shipping characters but it's just not relevant to the story, it wouldn't make sense

You guys can ship Wingdings with whoever u please if you want to tho, I don't mind

But, yeah, no shipping will happen here

[buggachat]

Sometimes I think about how Adrien, throughout the series, constantly grapples with his fear of abandonment. Gabriel conditioned him to believe that any love he receives is purely transactional, and that to earn affection he has to prove his utility. Adrien is constantly trying to prove his worth to his father for scraps of affection, and Chat Noir infamously crumbles on-screen any time he feels as though he is replaceable to Ladybug. It's a constant insecurity of his, like everyone will just dump him like a sack of potatoes the moment they find out how useless he is.

Meanwhile, all Marinette wants to is ensure that Adrien is happy. Because she loves him. She doesn't give two shits about how """useful""" he is. She holds him and tells him that she will never abandon him (both as Ladynoir and as Adrienette), and her fantasies are about saving him, not about him being "useful" to her. Throughout their relationship, Adrien is forced to disappoint Marinette constantly for reasons outside of his control (amok commands), and yet Marinette is still there for him.

At Adrien's lowest point, when he is forcibly torn away from everyone who had ever showed him genuine care, locked away in an all-white room and at his most "useless", right after disappointing Marinette and unable to even join the final battle or contribute in any way, she still saves him. She still loves him. Because he doesn't have to prove anything to her. Because he is loved and cherished for who he is, not for what he does, and that love is not conditional. Adrien's "happy ending" at the end of the first arc wasn't about him finally proving how useful he can be, because he never actually cared about being useful — he just saw it as the only means to feel loved and needed. Instead, in the end, he found out that he was loved and needed no matter what.

[hajihiko]

I had a dream the other night

[royalarchivist]

Sure, Arkanis has cool lore, interesting NPCs, adorable little ghosts, and more, but you know what the best part is? Tazercraft shenanigans!

(This meeting was over 7 minutes long, and Mike kept distracting Pac and made him laugh the entire time 😂)

[eddiebuckley-diaz]

unhinged 911 tweets part 8/?

if you notice the blur from tumblr, no you didn't

and if this flops, i will stop out of embarrassment

[masterrainb0w]

They MUST make plushies of Arlo NOW!!!

[creativitysloyalservant]

i have decided to break my lack of original posting on this blog to bring you my Thoughts on Rot in Paradise. because i played it as soon as i got up this morning and i have scoured for some opinions after finishing it, and now i have my own!!

(and also i posted this on twitter but twitter has such a Shit wordcount that i'm also posting my things here with More Detail)

so! spoilers under the cut, please go and play the game if you haven't. it takes literally an hour (it only took nearly 2 hours for me because i like voice acting by myself and exploring every nook and cranny) and it's also free. so maybe come back into the tag once you're done.

okay, so i noticed quite a number of people being confused and disappointed on the lack of an explanation for the monster. it's brought up in the story as the central thing driving the plot, but it's never explained on what "she" is, why she's compelling people to eat a ton of fish-related food or hell, metal, and why this doesn't impact June at all.

but you know what I think?

i think that that's the point. the focus of rot in paradise isn't supposed to be on the monster.

yeah, it's the thing that pushes the plot along besides June and the gang going on vacation in this island. it's what's causing that uneasiness from the moment that guy grabs June's arm at the drinks, to the sheer unnerving feeling of witnessing people going to the ocean to get Raptured basically. i know i personally felt a chill when i saw that one dude literally eating chains and the other hauling an anchor, as if they're trying to make themselves heavier so they get taken by whatever She is.

but that's not the main point! the main conflict is about June and her friends.

as people have pointed out, this game is about toxic friendships and relationships! it's foreshadowed in the conversation that June has with the gang about her cousin (which i will also get into), and it carries it through the way her friends are horribly warped by this ocean Creature. June goes on a silly little vacation trip with her friends only for them to become so so different from themselves that they lash out at her and even hit her in McCoy's case.

but she still sticks it out with them. through the whole game, even despite their verbal abuse, despite being slapped, despite them being people that she can hardly recognise. she stays with them for the whole game, up until the point where you are given the two options at the very end. and she could still stay with them.

because they're still her friends. she cares about them even if they still hurt her. from the way June still tells Carmen to tell June if she needs anything after Carmen literally tells her to shut up and leave, the way June worries about Vonnie eating seafood even though she continues to stuff herself despite being implied to either hate or make an active choice to not eat seafood, to the way June still trudges out to sea screaming for McCoy to come back to the shore as he wades further in even after he slapped her until her nose bled.

it mirrors the conversation about her cousin, the reason for why June was looking forward to the vacation. that while she did comfort her cousin through all of it, June clearly says that "they were dickheads, and she should have ditched them a long time ago".

but it's funny, isn't it? that June, an outsider to her cousin's friend group, easily sees the pain that her cousin's friends are causing her, and immediately calls it as it is. that her cousin should have left the second they hurt her.

and yet now, when her friends hurt her, even though this was a quick and sudden change that happened in a span of three days, June still sticks around. her friends are dickheads right now, and we can see that in the way they interact with June, but she still stays.

because they're her friends. and how could she just leave them like this if it's something that's causing them to be this way?

so no, i don't think the monster is supposed to be the main picture. we don't need to know what it looks like, or why it needs to do this to the islanders, or how it's even doing it in the first place. it adds to the scariness of the game, as per the Spooktober Game Jam, sure, but that's not the point. might be a bit disappointing to some, but that's not the point.

the point is about June, and the choice that she needs to make at the end of the game.

it's a choice on whether she chooses to be pulled deeper into the tides and be with the friends who hurt her and will continue to hurt her in this way,

or to leave them to their fates, whether deserved or not, and resurface to a world where she's alone without her friends.

and even though the first choice hurts much more in the long run, doesn't the second hurt even more in the moment? knowing that you're alone at the end of all of this?

even if it is the right choice, i'm sure the pain must be unbearable in the moment.

[strawglicks]

big ol cathal-graham art dump bc i havent posted in a while and i have a ton of old stuff i never posted

[posi-pan]

benedict bridgerton is pansexual, confirmed!

actor luke thompson: by our modern terms, the closest [descriptor] would be something along the lines of pansexuality — being attracted to the way that someone thinks and feels, regardless of gender. that’s a word that could be used.

showrunner jess brownell: in modern terms, he might be described as pansexual, someone for whom gender doesn’t really matter.

showrunner jess brownell: i knew that people out there had a feeling benedict might be queer. and personally, it made sense to me. he’s not just open minded, it’s that he seems like the type of person who wouldn’t be as concerned with gender — someone who might be more fluid and pansexual.

showrunner jess brownell: [the show’s writers] talk about him as being pansexual [and] the idea that for him, gender is not that important when he is finding attraction.

four different times he's been described as pansexual this month. happy pride, indeed! 💗💛💙

[year2000electronics]

ever since i got into SPM as a kid, i never really liked the theory that dimentio is the magician's son mentioned in the pixl queen saga, but the more i think about it, the more i kinda do like it? the idea that dimentio had a loving family once and watched as things like greed and pride and selfishness ripped it apart and that's why he wants a perfect world that he can absolutely control, and maybe why he underestimates the power of love so much. i dunno. i think he works well as a guy who's very purposely never explained in the story, but it's fun to think about it, right?

so here's an exchange within the confines of super dimentio. dialogue from kung fu panda 2

[kujakumai]

With most characters their orientation in specific does not matter much but Seto Kaiba to me is so incredibly A Gay Man. Seto Kaiba has never given a woman the time of day beyond the occasional grudging respect. I simply cannot see it. Firmly on one end of the kinsey scale. Every time I see him being shipped with a woman all I can think is "oh honey no. who's gonna tell her."

[fure-dcmk]

bite

[spark-circuit]

to everyone who doesn't know about Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door outside of the recent trans rights Vivian celebrations: there's also a mafia assault in broad daylight in this game