#tbc list

[fluentisonus]

He added, after a pause: “Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.”

Les Misérables, Volume I / Book V / Chapter III, trans. Hapgood

[allphatauri]

[file missing:teammate_enemy_target_friend]

[jvlianbashir]

why does "move along home" consistently get placed in those "worst star trek episodes of all time" lists when every actual person i've spoken to about it is either neutral towards it or likes it and thinks it's good corny fun

[mamawasatesttube]

kon sweetie im so fucking sorry that someone would even say something stupid like that oh my god.

[precalamity]

this is so funny 2 me. its not gay!! he only uses his system for picking up men on one guy! its-- well, its his gay best friend. who. um. he likes to remotely stimulate the prostate of. uh. because he likes control. obviously.

[lightyakami]

do you guys want a rec list of 44 vintage (2008 or earlier) mattmello fics. if so please click here.

[queenlua]

i used to have a pretty hackles-raised reaction to people with extremely hyperbolic Poasting Habits TM

(e.g. posts like: "if you don't reblog this you literally don't care about [terrible thing]," "[relatively-anodyne thing] is literally [maximally-awful thing] and if you don't agree just UNFOLLOW ME NOW," etc)

but then a couple ppl i knew irl-first developed these particular posting habits, and

man, their lives sucked. they were in objectively shitty situations that i wanted to help with, but like, for various reasons there just wasn't any help i could offer, or the help i could & did offer was just woefully inadequate relative to what they actually needed

so i updated to where now i'm like "okay, if someone's posting in a totally unhinged fashion, they're probably Going Through It; they're probably actually venting about some awful thing in their life, and an argument about their alleged object-level concern will go nowhere; just let them go off or whatever"

which is probably healthier & better but in an abstract way i sort of worry if i'm being dismissive/infantilizing/something??? toward ppl by adopting this posture

like... if i were complaining about something i saw as a legitimate issue, and someone's internal response was "oh she's probably just having Feelings TM," that would only make me more pissed, right? but like

sometimes people really are going through it yaknow. idk

[cuephrase]

my lcs guy absolutely loves jason todd and i got the distinct pleasure of showing him That Panel from batman 148 and getting his real time reaction and omg-

him: wait. WAIT. oh no i haven’t been following this run i’m so behind WAIT. *gasps* *glances around the store* okay cool no one else is here FUCK THAT GUY

me: we didn’t even get a poll this time

him: OMG WE DIDN’T EVEN GET A POLL

[ammoniteflesh]

on the one hand I totally agree that infantilising people with neurodivergent traits is garbage and ableist and should not be done, and I can recognise the blatant ableism in how fandom talks about Bellara - it's the exact same way they talk about Merrill, Cole, Sera. on the other hand. idk I do kinda take issue with the way Bellara is written. I do feel like she comes off as a bit of a caricature of neurodivergence and this includes infantilisation.

[yuridovewing]

tweaked my fave cats list a little bit and hawkfrost being the only guy so far is kinda making me laugh. one of the girlies (literally abuses a woman canonically?)

[arolesbianism]

Finally fixating on some nugget relationships that aren't horrible for everyone I love friendship <3

[gildalilli]

Themes/Motifs I’ve noticed within GO2 and I think are worth exploring:

Memory

Physical objects as ties to reality, especially those which are hand created

Food and drink and its role in manipulating emotions/desires, and building relationships

Heavy Fic Tropes to the point where they feel like we should be keeping an eye on them.

Similarly: Heavy references to pride and prejudice

[darcyolsson]

this line from saving raphael santiago is completely irrelevant to everyone else probably but it's referring to the downworlder sanctuary that's seen in CoB, which is at the top of my List of Things CC Once Invented In The Very Early Stages of Creating the Shadowhunter Universe, And Then Immediately Forgot About. I can't believe she randomly remembered...... and then seemingly forgot again

[mackerel-haru]

[drabble fic ! ] — haruka nanase centric drabbles, with romantic or platonic focuses on different characters: each chapter follows haru/xyz

[hinotorihime]

i am constantly complaining about how much i hate the gameplay + ui of skyrim, most of my issues with it boiling down very overtly to "this isn't how it works in oblivion and i don't like it >:(", but i gotta say that the objectively inferior alchemy system for skyrim does excel at incentivizing you to play the kind of character who is just constantly and immediately shoving random shit in their mouth