#tagging for spoilers

[phregnancy]

after what phil said about feeling like he was babysitting while people waited for dan and the numerous conversations i’ve had on my blog recently about phil being undervalued and overlooked i need ppl to know that if you contributed to that um. i hate you. genuinely really hate you. you should block me or unfollow me or idk what but this is not a safe space for you. idc how grossly parasocial this is of me but if you could not appreciate phil lester we should not share space because i hate you for that. from the bottom of my heart.

[communistkenobi]

I don’t know how to describe the way banshees of inisherin is affecting me. It tells an extremely specific kind of story, the sudden realisation that you are now strangers with a person you love. Not because of a fight, or because of illness or death, but because you didn’t actually know them as well as you thought you did. Padraic says to Colm - “maybe you were always mean.”

And despite this estrangement, this person you love is still active in your life. Colm helps Padraic home after the cop punches him, and then leaves without a word, indifferent to Padraic crying. Colm apologises for the death of Penny, and the apology feels genuine, but he doesn’t offer anything else. He even thanks Padraic for caring for his dog. There is some hint of intimacy present, but it’s backed by nothing. The person you love cares for you still, but they’re a stranger, they feel alien. And the way that they hurt you throughout this process feels as grotesque and impossible to anticipate as Colm’s brutal self mutilation - which we then seen actively prevents him from playing music at the end of the movie, despite his stated reason for suddenly dropping Padraic is that he wants to focus on his music. There is a very particular kind of interpersonal violence here, one where someone, suddenly, behaves so irrationally, in a way that could never have possibly occurred to you to anticipate, that they become this void, this alien that you don’t know what to do with. Colm tells Padraic to leave him alone, and Padraic doesn’t listen, but Colm breaks that rule on multiple occasions as well. There’s no underlying rational pattern to his behaviour - he just becomes a stranger, still present in your life in some way while remaining alien.

And we see Padraic lose people in multiple ways - his sister leaves, his donkey dies. These are “straightforward” kinds of griefs. And at the end of the movie he is completely alone with Colm, where he comes to the conclusion that the only way to respond to Colm’s insane, self-destructive, horrific behaviour is to behave the same way, making a promise at the end of the film that the both of them will end up dead because of this, that they will kill each other.

And I remember while watching the movie, the entire time I was hoping for a reveal of some kind. That Colm would be losing his mind, or dying, or that there was some other larger conflict hidden beneath the surface, but it never comes. And I like that the movie refuses to ever rationalise or explain his behaviour, instead going to considerable lengths to demonstrate that there is no possible justified explanation you could give for why Colm would decide to start cutting his fingers off to spite Padraic for trying to talk to him, or even why you would suddenly one day tell your closest friend you don’t like them and don’t want them to ever talk to you again in the first place.

Suddenly, violently unknowing a person you love in this precise way is something I haven’t seen explored in a lot of other art before. It’s the exact kind of experience that makes it impossible to grieve or move on from, the kind of thing that drives you to light their house on fire because you don’t know what else to do

[fool-errant]

Hades 2 Theories maybe spoilers

So in the new update as I've progressed to kicking Titan ass - some shit has started to come up.

cut for people who haven't gotten there yet.

So Heph has had this to say. Also Aphrodite mentions rumbles nut saus its not Posideon doing it.

I don't have any more screencaps cause I didnt think it was much until it kept beign mentioned.

And in Oceanus Narcisuss' reflective pond is cloudy. He's very upset about it - but t's not getting any clearer . Something has happed to fog it up. Prometheus also says hes - like doing us a favor to prevent us from getting to the next thing. The thing that is so awful the narrator can't even. So what is it? My initial reaction was this is Typhon.

Typhon is a monster that is like - the boss level monster of all Greek Myth. He aso is the father of a lot of monsters of Greek myth.

Typhon is traditionally the son of Gaia and...somebody. Sometimes Gaia and Tartarus (which is a place and a sentient thing.) Which might explain the water in Oceanus being affected. But that's a long shot. He's usualyl more associated with fires and volcanos. Unless he is the source of the steam that the valves are venting

He is also sometimes the child of Chronos. (Also Hera - going to Chronos for help to make something to kicks Zeus' ass but that doesnt quite fit here I think). Which would also give him a decent enough reason to pop in this family feud. Maybe he's the one asshole in the family to have a good relationship with their father. But is it Typhon? Traditionally Typhon is kept in Etna - which is a seperate mountain. And a volcano. Hephasteus uses him to power his forge. So the idea that Typhon could jsut - up and evacuate without Heph noticing his forge has gone out seems odd.

But Heph does also mention "his old forge" is sealed up for "security" reasons. So does that mean he's no longer working in Etna and so wouldn't notice the absence of Typhon? Though that then begs the question how the biggest giant of monsters got to the top of Olympus without anyone noticing. Is he tunnneling? So he's underground this whole time? Anyone else got a different theory? I can't figure out what it would be - but Typhon doesn't quite fit hte information we have been given.

[sacredcyber]

Feelings about phantom liberty so far (some personal some silly)

-I like So Mi, she’s cool, I LOVE SEEING MORE NETRUNNERS BUT I don’t like that she turns off my brain tumor and I don’t trust her.

-President myers is very cool and badass BUT I ALSO DON’t trust her.

-Solomon is VERY cool and hamsome I *kinda* trust him, like 5/10 trust

-Johnny is great. his talks about being in the military, being jaded and seeing the shitty reality of the military industrial complex really resonated with me because I’m a veteran and I sustained issues I have to deal with so…I really enjoyed his dialogue with V about him being in the bullshit. You can tell he’s someone who’s been used and abused by the system

-I have copped some bitchin’ clothes and that brings me joy because I can dress up my girl in cute ass threads

[sabertoothwalrus]

let's get ✨vulnerable✨

[candycatfalls]

Wait the book of bill appearing to Ford first is fucking HILARIOUS actually. Ford literally killed Bill less than a month ago, and Bill's still banking so hard on him getting him out of therapy that the book shows up in Ford's stuff MULTIPLE TIMES. Girl the situationship has been over for thirty years give it up 💀

[orphetoon]

when there’s historical romance written abt ur friends

[mosslingg]

life lessons with grunkle ford

you can support my work on kofi!

[arttuff]

bruce wayne becoming nightwing reminds me of those mums that are like 'im sooo skinny, i can fit into my preteen daughter's clothes!!!' but like. with vigilante personas

[atti-rambles]

Thinking about this panel... He's such a dad, this is how this emotionally stunted man shows love. He's the type to make you call him when you get to the function... So he knows you're okay... He will pick you up if you're drunk... So he knows you're okay...

Laios is like the son he never had... To me... His son who is twice is size

[marcilled]

im fucking losing it

[communistkenobi]

yeah so that TLOU episode…. as someone who hasn’t played the game it was a weird watch tbh! like i feel like the narrative was just gaining momentum and then bam, over an hour of nick offerman out of nowhere lmao. idk it’s also weird because reviewers are calling it the best episode of the season but it felt very unlike the first two eps to me idk!

@valcanous made a good point in the replies of another post that this episode makes much more sense when you view it as the writers avoiding any charges of “bad gay rep” by intentionally going overboard with Bill’s backstory, because in the game he mentions a dead partner and I believe that’s it. Like it feels performative in the purest sense of the word. It’s not offensive or anything but it’s very much playing towards positive critical responses from audiences/reviewers. Which makes me view other representational changes (Sarah, for example) as not terribly genuine, especially when both Bill and Sarah die in the episode they’re introduced in lol

[mambodork]

New season dropped,, ive only watched scar and joel's pov so far and i couldnt rest until i drew somethinf ,,, dont have everybody's design down quite yet but we r going somewhere *smiles*

[attleboy]

TADC SPOILERS AHEAD!! //

don't forget

[sacredcyber]

The face of a woman who’s having a great time being used by the nusa government 🙃

[arcanejude]

ARCANE 1.03 || 2.06