#tbf it’s plausible

[where1endandyoubeg1n]

ELECTRIC DREAMS REFERENCE IN SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK NO WAY😭 /hj

[thetardisisnotourdivision]

Ok I find it incredibly amusing that people are still reblogging my "Susan Foreman is The One Who Waits" post because it's officially redundant, but I'm calling it now that I was right about Mrs Flood.

Like the “slightly bumbling autistic person who is sometimes accidentally sinister and knows stuff she shouldn't” is… that's the whole plot of An Unearthly Child. That's the exact reason why all this started in the first place - because Susan being like that weirded Ian and Barbara out so much that they followed her home and got kidnapped. Also, Susan was telepathic, so she could have sensed Sutekh's presence.

I'm also still convinced that she's Ruby's mother.

Interested to see where they go with this!

[reinedeslys-central]

when it's been so long since you've read a fic that you forget about it and you find it in the search tags and start reading it again

and it's great, if a little familiar, but you've read a lot of these sorts of fics bc you like this tag a lot, so you assume it's nothing

but then the deja vu starts adding up and you start to wonder

and then moments before the great big Plot Twist Reveal happens you're suddenly like ah hell this is the bloody sundial fic again isn't it

smh this has to be the fourth time yet

[hauntedvulcan]

My theory is that there are two types of Vulcan OCs

The first type is an OC that is named very carefully and intentionally

And the second type is an OC whose name is testing just how silly Vulcan names could be

[rqg179]

i think the most intense "he would not fucking say that" experience i've ever had wasn't even towards a fictional character, it was the time i found out that there are A Surprising Number Of People who genuinely believe that the famous cheesy self-love quote "be yourself, everybody else is taken" was said by oscar wilde. first time i saw it i felt my brain grind to a complete still as i tried to process whether that was somehow true despite seeming so entirely out of sync with anything else attributed to oscar wilde. (it is not true! it literally just isn't! he did not fucking say that!)

[trevisos]

early game with xarrai is so funny because he’s out here like “shadowheart you have to trust me. you have to tell me your whole life story” “SERIOUSLY gale what is the deal with the magic items?” meanwhile every other word out of this dude’s mouth is a lie. he’s given every party member a different entirely untrue backstory. wyll thinks he grew up in the circus. he makes up an entire fake city with fake customs so he can tell lae’zel she’s done something incredibly offensive to him and his culture whenever he’s annoyed at her. he’s constantly giving everyone these Very Serious looks and telling them to trust him meanwhile he is lying through his teeth about everything. he’s such a fucking clown

[0ystercatcher]

ngl choosing a fictional character or a weird common noun for a name was so deeply cringe to me even when i was in the depths of my non binary self id moment. like youre gonna use this name irl. at university. at work even. why would you call yourself fern. are you retarded. i wouldnt have said retarded back then but like are you??? bc that giving retarded

[smuganya]

i would love for someone that’s never seen elite to tell me which of these actors they think is supposed to be her twin and which is supposed to be her love interest

[royalreef]

         Awww, did her baby sister teach Vera nothing? Any of them can come from anywhere, at any time. They’re always there. Always just out of sight.

        It’s such an important lesson, especially if she’s going to have Amanda as her sister-in-law.

[pirdmystery]

bruh unless i’m playing this game wrong jean is unusable. poor little urchin

[corpseofsuturedseams]

by god do i need to write a song about how annoying my coworker is

[kanohivolitakk]

@toaarcan I find your thoughts geniuely fascinatig and wnat to comment on the full thing when i have more time but right now I have to respond to this

Since given how the most contentious and divisive character in my other fandom is literally just "Toa Tuyet but anime girl" my reaction to this is comment just.

You know, I find the difference between how the fandom treats Nidhiki and how the fandom treats Tuyet rather fascinating.

Because both of them are traitorous Toa Mangai who betrayed their team (and thus the ideal of Toa) for their own selfish gains. Both are characters who can be read either sympathetically or as completely selfish and vile characters. And lastly both are mean to represent the different ways a toa can fall to the dark side by having their vices and flaws win over their virtues.

Yet despite of those similarities, I have noticed people tend to be far more sympathetic to Nidhiki than Tuyet. People tend to give Nidhiki far more sympathetic towards his circumstances, minimize his flaws and outright wish he had been redeemed. While with Tuyet is at best seen as an interesting and somewhat complex villain, or at worst as a tyrannical lunatic.

It is easy to chalk this dichotomy up to Nidhiki being canonically more sympathetic than Tuyet, but I don't think that's necessarily the case. If we go by Greg's own commentary, his intention was other way around. For Greg Nidhiki was a selfish opportunist with few sympathetic traits, while Tuyet was someone who took her noble goals too far. Greg also has stated multiple times Tuyet is not evil, but rather insane (something that has it's own can of worms but thats neither here or there)

As such, we can easily think the dichotomy is either misogynistic doublestandards of sympathizing with a male villain while demonizing a female one in spite of the latter being less heinous, or yet another case of fans disagreeing with Greg. And while either of those conclusions are understandable, I think to simplify it would be rather dismissive and disingenous. As I do tink there are a few reasons why this is at play beyond misogynistic doublestandards or fans disagreeing with Greg for the fiftieth time.

Firstly, while Nidhiki was meant to be unsympathetic and selfish, his hints of a tragic backstory™ kinda muddy that interesting. If Nidhiki was meant to be a selfish powerhungry jerk, why then tell the audience he had to survive his whole life in one of the harshest conditions in Matoran Universe. Knowing Nidhiki's upbringing in TK Peninsula, it makes his actions far more understandable and sympathetic than if we knew where he came on. Tuyet meanwhile has no backstory or mindset that explains her motivations and goals, beyond her viewing Toa as too weak-willed to protect matoran. As such, it is easy to read her as a totalitarian despot who wants to control others, than anything more.

Secondly, Nidhiki is far more likable than Tuyet in their respective backstory oneshots. Tuyet in MDOTT is largely characterized as rather curt, nononsenical and somewhat manipuative, making her hard to sympathize for the audience. Contrast this to Nidhiki in MDOTT and BOADH, who while flawed is given more likable traits. Nidhiki is shown to be witty, clever and a bit of a snarker, which make him more endearing to the audience in spite of his impulsivity and selfishness being clearly present. Paired with BOADH being largely from his POV (and thus, allowing us to see his perspective, reasonings and mentality), it just makes Nidhiki a far easier character to root for than Tuyet, who is presented as an antagonist in her story.

Lastly, Nidhiki is just a character most fans have more connection to due his importance in the overarching story. Nidhiki was an already established antagonist in a main story arc, who'se backstory was mysteriously intriguing before being later expanded on. Tuyet meanwhile is a serial exclusive character first introduced as a plotdevice corpse, who was given a backstory to explain who she was while beinng alive and later used because she presented many interestig opportunities and potential. As such, people are more likely to be interested in the character present in the main story than the one who mainly exists in supplemential material.

But yeah that's just my own two cents on this as a Nidhiki fan who likes both characters. There's also the way how Tuyet does far worse things than Nidhiki and has far steadfast morality, but I feel I have talked about those earlier so I digress.

[lady-of-the-spirit]

I was imagining an au where Yanli lives (as in doesn't go to the Nightless City/doesn't run into the fight) but everything else goes the same and came to a possible* conclusion that. Lan Wanji might not like her at all. For the same reason he dislikes Jiang Cheng - her lack of action to save Wei Wuxian. And also a general dislike for the Jins.

*(I say possible because he also could just as easily realize she doesn't exactly have much of a voice in her situation and she also is a genuinely pleasant person. But tbf it's not like he's known for being rational about Wei Wuxian so either outcome is entirely plausible to me.)

Ignoring how much of an impact Yanli's survival has on the rest of the plot I just wanted to bring it up because, unlike Wei Wuxian's general ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ attitude about Lan Wangji's dislike of Jiang Cheng, there is absolutely no way he would tolerate Lan Wangji disliking Yanli even when Wei Wuxian realizes it's in defense of himself so the mental image of Lan Wanji at war with his natural desire to please Wei Wuxian vs his just as natural desire to forever be an asshole to anyone he doesn't like is fun.

[random-conspiracy]

Ok, I'm entering my villain (& heroes!) arch aajshashasa. This stupid fixation of superpowers and fiction comic stories.

WELL, HOT TAKE OF THE DAY:

The majority of superpowers in fiction and oc's are boring because they're straightforward. Picture it, there's aaaaaaaaaaaaaaalways someone with the power of:

Mimic someone's power

Invisivility

Steel skin

Puppeteer or any variation of body and mind manipulation (because *wink wink* we're all edgys and saw creepypastas a lot hashas)

Perhaps fly

Ultra speed

And shit like that ajshashasa. Don't get me wrong, those are amazing superpowers. Even just one person in a normal-esque world is a fucking anomaly and represents a game changer.

HOWEVER it's quite boring and honestly quite lazy. Because oh yes! The evil twisted villain of the wee has the power of... mind control. OH BOY! I fucking wonder what is gonna happen! (sacarsm). Or shadow control powers or super force and you know the rest. WHAT a twist! (/s).

And the same goes for the heroes that GOD forbid they're not teenagers or young adults in well shaped bodies BECAUSE UUUUUUFFFFFFFFFF. Call me crazy but if you can fly I doubt you're using at all your muscles the same way a common person does ahshasa. But why fucking not, we can never have enough twinks and women in spandex, can we? ahshahsa.

There's no twist and creative work in a superheroe or a villain or whatever that has JUST that exact power that conveniently works.

I'm a slut for the characters with random and incoherent powers!

That's where this shit goes hard. Beacuse it's so easy to be a superhero whn you can walk through walls or move at high speed. But what happens when you have the power to deconstruct objetcs? Fly just 50 cm off the groud? Exact knowledge of the pupulation in Taiwan (while you live in Argentina)?

What happens to them??? I wanna see the shenanigans, the creative solutions to abnormal problems! And what happens to the powers that become a burden or that straight up are incompatible with the common society. What happens if you're born without bones? If TV signals sometimes cross without way to evade it into your mind?

I wanna see creative villains. With powers like super healing and bubblegum madness. Concidental induction and urbomancy. Hhahshahsas

The thing is not actually that the pwoers are common or simple, the thing is for me that the weaponization in battle is the number one thought. Like, yeah, I bet turning sound waves into lethal blades is powerful but out of battle, does it matter? It means somethig? Can you cut a frozen pizza for dinner or you destroy your whole kitchen?

(Tbf, a story a bout a character struggling to see beyond his powers shapped to battle could be interesting BUT that's another story ahsahsas).

And I'm also bored of the god-like powers. You can fly and you can control minds! For free I guess and with no real consequences. Bceause let's be serious, Spidermand and Superman as archetypes of the hero had their own limitation (not precisely linked to their powers by themselves BUT WHATEVER). They're more or less the exception to this.

I Wanna See Limits

LIMITS. I care 0 if the character can eat the fucking Sun. What I want to see is that power in personal impact and relativity. Sometimes the right (or wrong!) word has more power that destroying the Earth. And a lot of it comes from the limitations. How easy is everything when you have all the power, but the limitations are what shape the plausibility, the humanity and the imagination around it. For example Magneto. It's because of his clear limitations that he scaping from the plastic underground prison in the movies is so fantastic. He uses a creative solution to work around his limits. Amazing!

Idk man, Brandon Sanderson said this shit already. Go see him go see him.

[pong03]

headcanons I have for ghouls. this is just my silly head canons that have no true importance

I think of Alan as mixed nationalities, maybe not mixed race. but, I headcanon him personally as his mom being an American and dad being native Japanese. For sillies but also because of the connection to cars, although cars made in America are not so common anymore Mechanic culture is super huge especially in places like rural America because there is a lot space to drive. TBF this could also work a lot with Australia and would almost be more plausible due to the immigration between the countries being quite a bit more common. Doesn't change much either way. I believe Yuri to be half Russian literally just because I had a dream about him being Russian. That's all I like to imagine Zenji and Jiro as children who grew up in a military family so their childhood was spent moving around from country to country. I believe that sparked Zenji striving for a cultural connection with his Japanese culture because as a child being seperated from it so he sought it out. I imagine their family being quite traditional also, for obvious reasons with Zenji, but also the name choice for Jiro being seen as very typical, or old school. We actually don't really know if Jiro retains a lot of his personality pre-incident. Even if he doesn't lose his memory of who he was I imagine his chronic illness being quite draining resulting in him being very subdued.

If you have just plain old headcanons not really based on anything lore-wise and just for your personal enjoyment Please share!

[phonaesthemes]

this one also made me giggle

bon sang, DEUX chaussures? dans CETTE économie?

This is my fault for using google translate instead of looking stuff up properly but I was wondering what the spanish equivalent to "goody two shoes" was and uh,

no, I don't think that's it, actually 😐