#swinging bat at hornets nest of a post i know i know

[padmestrilogy]

it does bother me how deeply people will mine obi-wan's child soldier trauma that comes from a dubiously-canon book and isn’t referenced at any point in the movies (or shows), but straight-up never talk about padme's child soldier/queen trauma, which is half the plot of tpm and while maybe clumsily followed-up on, is nonetheless a real genuine part of her character included from the start

[loveipromiseimnotinsane]

Just to throw this out there

[ganondoodle]

with every thing i learn about what the directors of totk said in interviews it all just gets worse huh?

the thing about the shiekah tech just vanishing and nobody caring enough to look into it was already rough and now i learn they said that -after botw zelda wondered if hyrule as a kingdom was still needed but then totk happens- just sounds like she wondered if hyrule as a kingdom still needed to exist in the way it had been (which would be an interesting change for once and also make sense for her character) and then they took her back into the distant past with the super good guy king of a godly race to teach her the lesson what her place is and that yes, their monarchy needed and good and really given to her by "gods" and what if big evil black man shows up again

i dont have the energy to get into it further but needed to say soemthing about it bc it keeps bothering me :(

[thenixkat]

Still fascinating to me that there's people who truly think their experiences are universal, that because something is popular in the circles they run in means that everyone should know it and will insult and treat people like stupid uncultured swine for even perceived differences in experiences. or if folks disagree with them when they make overly broad generalizations on what 'everyone' knows or thinks.

(b/c it's not like poor people, people from different cultures/subcultures, and people with fundamentally different interests exist.)

Like? That's complete asshat behavior.

[kostnyan]

Hetalia fans will be like " nooooo!! Don't ship those two characters they're brothers/ father and son!!!" And its about two land masses who were colonial empires who've done irreversible damage to the world or something. Objectively what I'm doing is way better comparatively and has little to no impact on society soooo

[fishsfailureson]

On my hands and knees begging fantasy authors to include other forms of government in their writing other than absolute hereditary monarchies because fantasy gives you the ability to experiment with literally any idea on how society functions and also I'm sick of seeing monarchies all the time, it gets boring.

Also they get glorified most of the time which is an even bigger problem

[guiltyonsundays]

Incredible sequence of posts on the dash just now

[macadam]

Gonna put myself out here for a hot minute to remind everyone that the runner of a poll or little event on tumblr is not responsible for the replies/posts of everyone else in the fandom, nor do they have the power to stop people from reacting in any which way in the notes of their post without turning off reblogs and shutting down the entire thing full stop. I think we can all agree on that? They are not a discord mod, or the fandom's babysitter. Tumblr is the Wild West and by god none of us are the sheriff.

That's all ok keep on keeping everyone

[introspectivememories]

my timbern hot take is that i thank god everyday that we got riley rossmo's art for those first few issues instead of serg acuña's because i know some of you bitches would've been extremely weird about timbern if we had gotten acuña's manga-esque style from the beginning

[possiblyawesometmblr]

if stranger things were set in 2016 eddie's big guitar solo would have been megalovania and it would have fucked just as hard send tweet

[pixlostinatos]

oh hey now that the well and bitter medicine have gotten official releases can i say it now? The Well is a nosy neighbors song and Bitter Medicine is sooooooo dl!pearl

[dyketennant]

the fact that i live in a society where i cannot avoid hazbin hotel or helluva boss within many queer spaces is truly a nightmare scenario.

[valentinoappreciator]

if the "Addict" music video is no longer canon, we basically have no evidence that Valentino is, in fact, a rapist

checkmate antis and haters 💅

[scare-ard--sleigh]

gotta be honest with you, i can't stand that post that's like "the t*rf accusations don't bother me bc i know that trans women are my sisters!" like , ,,, it should bother you. being accused of that should make you ask yourself what your knowledge gaps are and what you can be doing better to be loudly inclusive. if you’re an intersectional ally like you claim, it should absolutely bother you.

[mx-misty-eyed]

cis women stop saying “i hate men” “all men suck” “kill all men” challenge

[hrokkall]

Magnificus!

HELL yeah I was hoping I’d get to talk about this guy I love shaking him like a towel.

Favorite thing about them: This is more of me admiring the attention to detail in this game (intentional or not) but his personality and card game system go hand-in-hand so well. Mox in general is a wild system. No one knows how to use it, you have to predict your opponent’s moves ahead of time, and it doesn’t work very well with the other systems outside of specialty cards but is exceptionally powerful when meticulously planned and utilized correctly… I don’t think I need to say where I’m going with this.

Least favorite thing about them: I’m not going to say the wizard torture because that’s a cop-out (and honestly the Scrybes all doing heinous shit because they all genuinely feel they have to is part of what makes them compelling villains). Instead I’m going to say the fact that we know absolutely nothing about this guy. I’m all for mysterious ambiguity in characters but it’s really tough to work off of absolutely nothing. Also the fact that he doesn’t canonically wear a wizard hat. He should wear a wizard hat. Give him a wizard hat.

Favorite line: I don’t think I have one. I do want to know what the fuck he was going to say before he disappeared in Act 2 though.

brOTP: I don’t think they’re friends in the slightest but the paint droplets outside of her clearing in Leshy’s domain seem to imply that Magnificus and the Woodcarver have talked at some point, maybe frequently. Again, despite that, I don’t think they’re friends—Woodcarver desperately wishes the Scrybes would leave her alone (she’s already not the most fond of Leshy, much less another self-proclaimed god waltzing in to interrupt her peace and quiet) and Magnificus is just as neutral on her as he is with everyone else who isn’t an immediate threat—but they’ve talked often enough about damage control from various takeovers that there’s at very least no hostility. Which is about the most you can ask for in this sort of situation.

Having said that I can’t see Magnificus being casual friends with anyone in his current state. I think even if someone wanted desperately to be friends (see: Goobert) he’d try everything possible to subdue them because he’d immediately assume they’d interrupt his 12-step-plan-for-the-future in some way or another—he has a plan for just about everything and he really doesn’t want someone else to throw a wrench in that. He knows via future vision they’re not going to try and usurp him but he can still never be too cautious. Not much reasoning with this guy.

OTP: I know I’m missing the point of the “pairing” part in OTP but for all four Scrybes the Scrybe Polycule is going here. Or just any of the other Scrybes in general. I like them in a “studying them under a microscope” kind of way. They’re probably never all going to get their shit together to make things work again but it’s the thought that counts (not really considering they’re all perpetually fistfighting each other but hey). Maybe one day they’ll stop trying to kill each other. Huge step in the right direction.

nOTP: I haven’t seen any ships with Magnificus aside from him + other Scrybes so I don’t have anything to put here (for all I know there’s a huge Inscryp shipping community and it’s all just flown under my radar. I have no idea).

Random headcanon: I’ve already talked about his claws, I’ve already shitposted about him turning his head like an owl… so instead of taking a natural progression into anything else I’m going to take a sharp left and say he’s resistant to most forms of magical damage. His hair is fireproof, a poor conductor, insulating against the cold, negates acid splash damage, wards away necrosis—you name it, it’s probably going to bounce right off. This does, however, leave a pretty glaring weakness to just… punching him. If you can manage to skirt around his constant premonitions enough to get close and you can lift more than 30lbs above your head, you can probably just snap him like a twig.

Unpopular opinion: Where do I even start. Even liking Magnificus is an unpopular opinion, somehow. I’m pretty sure I’ve already said the long version of this in another post so I’ll keep it short: people are way too harsh on this guy. Yeah he’s evil and awful (obviously—I’m not going to sit here and say torturing college students isn’t fucked up), but he’s not really worse than the other Scrybes. All four of them are operating on levels of blue and orange morality and making one of them out to be unequivocally evil while forgiving another one who does almost the exact same thing (looking at you, P03) is super boring. Either make them all super fucked up and evil or give them all a chance to recognize the severity of their actions—let’s not stand on the fence on this one.

Song I associate with them: I haven’t really found many songs that capture whatever he’s got going on very well, probably because it’s pretty damn specific. Mr. Magic by Reliqa is good for something harsher/an outside perspective, or Visions by Sea Wolf for a (long before canon) pre-canon Magnificus. As a bonus… I was going to try and avoid multiple songs by the same artist too but fuck it. Whose Eye is it Anyway??? by Jhariah is too fun to not mention.

Favorite picture of them: I really like his act 2 overworld sprite, it’s so ridiculous-looking