#tangential knowledge

[absolutedoorknob]

Just realized that Gordon had an out for inviting the Batman to the first crime scene— there was a letter addressed to him. In the United States it is a felony to open up someone else’s mail, and it’s not like Batman has a mailbox. So, what do you do? You bring the Batman to you

Also I’m embarrassed that it took me like four episodes of Westworld to recognize Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner Gordon. And that it took me forty minutes of Batman (2022) to recognize him as Beetee from the Hunger Games but that’s besides the point.

[bluenoisen]

gwennyyyyy things are getting weeeeiiiirrrrdddd watch ooouuuuttt!!

[ms-scarletwings]

Now I don’t mind this established trope at all where people are basically ants in the minds of dragons, but then, just once in any fantasy media or campaign I want a dragon or other massive higher creature that responds to the existence to humans in the exact way that I do to bugs.

Dragon that stops flying because it saw someone sleeping in a field and pokes them with a branch out of sheer curiosity to check if they’re dead or not.

Dragon that watches goblins scurry into one of their little huts and just pries the roof off to stare at them and look at the inside of their little shelter before putting it back down with a satisfied grin and leaving.

Dragon that sees a person treading water in the middle of a lake or the ocean, carefully plucks them out, and sets them down on dry land. Maybe puts a goat’s leg in their lap in case they need a snack. Also calls them “Harold” for no apparent reason.

Very young dragon that screams and freaks out upon seeing a bearded man with brightly colored robes and a pointed hat until it realizes the guy isn’t casting any spells. “Ohhhh you’re a wizard mimic” and then proceeds to handle the guy for a few minutes, fascinated. It also addresses the dude as “Craig” the entire time.

Dragon grabs a wild boar and repeatedly starts placing it in front of a town because it wants to see some hunting behavior in action.

Thief gets caught sneaking into a dragon’s lair. Resident reptile roars and is seemingly about to obliterate them when its mate suddenly comes rushing in with a giant cup. They have a grumbly back and forth before the thief is scooped up and promptly brought to be dropped off at the nearest random village. Dragon’s mate refers to the thief as “Sullivan SillyMan” the whole way.

Dragon that encounters a member of a humanoid race it has never heard of or seen before, at least in this region. Stops everything it’s doing and immediately kidnaps the individual. Speeds back to its lair and keeps them imprisoned while trying to flip through some tomes. Eventually drags out a magical item that they use to open a communication with another dragon, describing the prisoner, showing them the prisoner, exchanging friendly banter. There’s a whole 30 minute to and hour convo and everything. Dragon refers to the captive as “Thaddeus” the whole time. Last thing it does is sketch out a drawing of the person before taking them back to where they found them and turning them loose again.

Dragon doing this to a gnome

[crystalleoi]

5C

[shrinkthisviolet]

I’m convinced that Laurel was fridged for sheer spite. They killed Sara off in S3 but the audience literally rebelled so they had to bring her back in S4. And after that showrunners were very insistent that the next character they killed off would stay dead no matter what; and it just so happened to be the sister of the character they tried to kill off last time

Oh yikes. Though also, from what I hear, Laurel wasn’t very popular…and tbh I feel like starting off her story with the main character cheated on her with her sister is doing her dirty from the start. My sympathies, Laurel 😔 (did either of them ever apologize to her for that btw?? Especially Oliver??)

I’ve also heard killing her off was partly to push Oliver/Felicity and kill the chances of Laurel/Oliver (which…guys. You already killed Laurel/Oliver by having Oliver cheat on Laurel. Bffr), is that true?

[malaierba]

writing Toshiro has led me to places i wouldn't have ever thought of exploring unless i had a blorbo propelling me

this is very "character mentioned liking pepsi once and the fandom made it their whole personality" and I'm aware.

i also don't really care since its fun and I do think it comes up consistently enough to make the educated assumption that, yeah, in a modern au he'd be into bugtok and he'd know a little bit too much about insects for it to be a accidental.

[faggling]

I love taking care of people omggg 😍😍😍

[dougielombax]

Behold.

Perhaps the stupidest and most esoteric meme I have made so far.

The quote is from the end of Halo: Outcasts if you’re curious.

Feel free to reblog if you wish.

[variaandroise]

This post is referencing This Conversation between myself and @acemakes-art143. Not reblogging it because 1) This post hardly has anything to do with what we were talking about and 2) That post has affected my For You Page and I'd rather not think about it (even if the fanart is less terrifying).

I find it interesting how we clearly evaluate the importance of the information presented in the tags very differently.

Like, my first reblog's tags are the most fair to say are directly relevant to the actual post. They were put in tags because they would detract from the snappiness of the actual text, so me expressing confusion about "Why would these two share a tag anyway?" was put aside. I also thought that cleansing my mind with body horror was amusing enough to mention, but not enough to directly add.

The second one though was very much a tangent about my thought process, how I feel like I'm obviously from very smart people and way overcomplicated what could've been a seven word correction into a paragraph's worth of ranting about translations, and how no, I didn't know about any of the translation bullshit I talked about off the top of my head. It also addressed Ace's tags, which obviously didn't belong in the post itself.

However, Ace clearly found those very directly relevant to the post seeing as she went through the effort of screenshotting them. I'm curious why we seem to see their relevance differently.

[didnt-hear-cold-as-you-live]

where does one draw the line between 'so true queen it must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero' versus 'I actually am the worst person in the world bc people wouldn't think I sucked so bad if it wasn't true I can't be THAT misunderstood' vs 'shitty people don't know they're shitty and if you even have that thought you can't be a Bad Person, and you have genuinely just had bad luck and are really misunderstood and you need to stop gaslighting yourself' -> lather rinse repeat

[themarginalthinker]

lord help me I'm on my lostboys bullshit again had like an hour and a half conversation with berd about vampire worldbuilding

[cordiallyfuturedwight]

Biases: Wei Wuxian using his flute, ChanBin spoon meme (gif please), BangChan Rubber Ducky meme (gif please)

ooooo we’ve got some specifics! love it, let’s see what i can do 😂

found gifs of rubber ducky bangchan for you <3

[muirneach]

hate the annoying travel influencers on instagram trying to say anything about salvation mountain like ‘ohhh its so unkempt and creepy and isolated’ u would never understand….

[tentacletournament]

If the rot consumes All the polls will you play Rain World

i would but i dont own any game consoles and i don't play things on my laptop/pc so unless its free and on the mobile apple app store i dont think i can but i will watch a playthrough and make a papercraft of the rot maybe

[radioreprise]

alright i just saw three posts in the span of ten minutes about ovulation are yall trying to do a mass heat cycle sync again. knock it off.

[beeapocalypse]

AH i havent talked abt the frontierists here have i. very secretive sect of alamanni humans looking into Dreamed Realities (pocket realities born by dreams- the purposeful creation of them by eldritch deities Is possible but is also considered way blasphemous. near every dreamed reality by alamanni folk is born of essentially the most advanced form of maladaptive daydreaming possible and is unintentional. way hard to discern between them and real vivid Normal dreams). humanitys predecessors (taught the secret of intentionally dreaming up new lands by a select few eldritch beasties seeking refuge from the rest) sought refuge in a dreamed reality to get away from both the incessant typically deadly curiosity of the vast majority of eldritch deities and their incredibly shit living situation (forced into subterranean living bc of the whole corpse of the existence dragon and all of its curious parasites hanging up in the sky staring down at them, resources running low over the years with them unable to leave for more bc of the venettes- already sentient animals transformed into more human shapes by the eldritch in an attempt to get closer to that hidden race) and their shed mortal bodies upon successful exodus became the first humans so theyve got this tiny innate knack for intentional exploration that other alamanni folk dont. through the gathering of just abt every bit of still surviving texts on dreamed realities (WAY sparse, both thru the passage of time + the fact that those first eldritch deities desperate enough to part with such secrets were long killed by their more pious fellows), the frontierists understand the mechanics of it all Just enough to be able to deliberately enter and explore this 'final frontier' which they seek to put to page and Conquer