#that last part was a joke btw

[my-pjo-stuff]

"How could anyone ever love Luke ??? Like I genuinely don't-"

I love him 'cause he's my spirit animal. Ultimate Oldest Sibling Syndrome in media, I would have done the same. Also he's hot.

[smashthegiantkiller]

Re: Shane's kill count. Pretty sure it's still at 1 (confirmed) but that's fine because Kevin got better. That said, the number of times that man has done himself in and come back I'm pretty sure he has a frequent shopper card for out of body experiences or something.

And people say Shane doesn't put people over

I feel that way too, like, come back enough and we'll save you from an actual out of body experience (:cough: helicopter crash :cough:). It's unfortunate that the universe couldn't save him from tearing his quad.

[woahimnottrash]

Let's focus on a real problem americans have faced for a long time; there is not enough oatmeal in those instant oatmeal packets. They're packing those bitches with a meal for ants. Im a big growing boy and they're expecting me to eat 3 spoonfulls of strawberries n cream and to be satisfied with that. Harris, if you're reading this, im not voting for you unless you plan to do something about this

[funkyyusername]

to add onto this:

the secret keeper (who i believe is a completely different entity from the watchers) was incredibly upset to learn that lizzie wasn’t killed off properly. as cruel as the secret keeper could be at times, there was one thing the secret keeper strongly believed in, and that was fairness. to the secret keeper, lizzie not being killed off was completely unfair to her and other players. thats why the secret keeper refused to let scar “pass” his final task. because he didn’t really win if another player was endlessly falling into the void. i also like to think that at times the secret keeper would talk to lizzie through the void. the secret keeper also couldn’t find lizzie’s body, so it was more of a one sided conversation on both parts, but they just did that so lizzie wouldn’t be completely alone in the void. lizzie really enjoyed the secret keepers company

also i like to imagine this is how their conversation went after scar won

“scar won btw lol”

“MOTHERFU—”

i think the reason why there are borders in the life series is so that the watchers have access to the players souls. if a player were to walk out of the border lines the watchers would have a harder time reaching to the player's soul, before just completely losing access to them. thats why during limited life when grian (i think) walked out of the border he started taking damage. it was the watchers way of scaring him back into the borders. cause if he walked too far away from them the watchers wouldn't be in control of him anymore. the thing is, the nether and end do not have any borders. the watchers couldn't create borders there. maybe because it was a different dimension that they didn't understand enough of, idk. now in the nether there are things like mobs and lava that can just kill you easy peasy. i believe however, that in the end, the void doesn't kill you. the void is endless, there's nothing there to be able to kill you. in secret life, while the dragon was being killed, almost all of the sever went into the end. so when martyn fell into the end, the watchers saw and was able to kill his soul in time before he fell out of bounds. the thing with lizzie though, is that no one but scott was there when she fell in. i also believe that the watchers completely forgot that lizzie was even in the game, so none of them watched as she went into the end with scott. none of them watched as she fell into the void. by the time they realized she had fallen, her body was completely out of bounds and they had lost her. it didn't really matter to them anyway, since it was her last life. why go to the efforts to try and fetch her soul anyway. they didn't care enough to properly kill her off. so they played the lightening sound effect to signify that she "died," but she wasn't really dead. she was falling. falling into the never ending void. that's why when scar turned in his task, he got the exact same task. because he didn't really win. because lizzie was still alive, but no one will ever know because she's stuck in an endless void, falling until the end of time

[chrissdollie]

imagine being on an instagram live with chris one night. ur chilling in ur jammies, ur back against his chest while he sips on a pepsi. u guys are answering questions but it’s quiet for a few seconds.

that is until he lets out the most outrageous record breaking mount everest shaking burp. your hand flies your mouth and you BURST OUT LAUGHING. and he has this faux look of shyness on his face. he’s like, “ohmygosh guys i just burped in front of my crush i’m so embarrassed”

[hurlumerlu]

i feel like i’m missing something about the ashtray that you’re seeing, so i must ask, what do you find so fascinating about it?

Well this is probably going to end up being a bit embarassing for me, but no, I don't think you're missing anything about the ashtray. I think it's meant to add just a touch of unease and not much else.

The reason I'm so obsessed with it - my neuroses aside - is because of how gratuitous it feels.

As a transition shot (which I'm using to mean "first shot we get to signify we cut from one scene to another", my apologies if it's not the right technical term) it's kind of a jarring one: a simple, abrupt cut from a relatively colorful shot of Kant in his home to this close up of an object in predominently dark and sepia tones. It's also not the most informative one.

All the clues as to where we are (the computer, the notebook, the chair, the lamp) are background things, out of focus. The one thing that is in focus is something that's never really been brought to our attention: yes, the captain is the only character we've seen smoking so far, and yes, the ashtray is technically present in his office when we're introduced to him, but I had to look for it to find it and would have never noticed it otherwise:

So we've got all those rather discreet, almost subliminal informations about our location, and smack in the middle of it the figure of a naked woman tits up, laying under one of tv's most beloved phallic symbols, and it's just... why? Why put that shot in? What's the point? They very well could have just put a shot of the office through one of its doors, they even did it in the cut version.

(informative, very easy to read, but does not set any particular tone)

But they didn't want to, so it has to be purposeful. My thoughts on its purpose below. It turns into me trying to analyse the captain and Kant's relationship, so it gets kinda long, and just as a heads-up, I discuss sexual coercion down the line.

So, like I said in the begining of my post, I think it's meant to add just a touch of unease and not much else. I stand by it, but I am very interested in that unease. Frankly, even if it was the most tasteful sculpture of a bare lady I had ever seen, I would still question its presence in Christ's office (where he works as a police captain.) But it's pretty far from tasteful, isn't it? Regardless of aesthetic considerations (I think it's fugly), it's an ashtray. The captain stubs his cigarettes and drops their ashes on the figure of an arched, naked body. There's inarguarbly an element of sleaze to that choice of prop, or as my wife would put it "yeah, it's here to tell us that cap's kind of a creep."

And it's not the first time the subtext got sleazy around these two either. They had one of their talk in a bathhouse (probably a universal spot for gay hookups, but certifiably a thai spot for gay hookups) in a steam room (even if there wasn't a long history or eroticising those places, Style almost jerked off/blew Fadel in one last episode). Of course, it's also an hommage to spy stories, spies sure love their saunas, but I don't believe it's only that. Because 1/again, that FadelStyle scene one episode prior. 2/I will not do JoJo Tichakorn Phukhaotong the insult of implying he does not know his gay porn and 3/

they didn't have to touch. They could have exchanged informations and gone their separate ways without touching even once. If they had to touch it could have been a hand on the shoulder or a handshake. (That's what I thought would happen! When we got a glimpse of that scene in the trailer, and I wrote my very first fic for this fandom, I genuinely thought the scene would only be an hommage to spy stories, and that all the potential sleaziness I was seeing there was just, well, me being me. I wrote the fic because I thought the show wouldn't go there!) But instead we got the captain following Kant to a bathhouse, the both of them meeting in a sweat room (something made explicitely sexual in the previous episode), Christ telling Kant he has to "up his game" and to not "tell anyone about this" and then slapping his thigh in a manner very reminiscent of another thigh grab we saw in episode 2, this one definitely sensual.

I'm calling that subtext, and I'd say whoever did the cut for the tv version agreed with me, since they completely removed that damn ashtray. Now, it could simply be a matter of female-presenting-nipples, but I'm willing to bet the thigh grab was also cut (if I'm wrong, feel free to point and laugh). EDIT: @deliriousblue checked, and I was in fact wrong! They kept the thigh slap. I don't think it detracts from my point too much, though, as it doesn't negate anything I said before about sexual subtext/coding. (but If anything, it makes the switch from ashtray close-up to wide office shot stands out even more)

So there's something sexual lurking in the outskirt of Kant & Christ's relationship. It's implied, it's light, but it's there.

I think part of the purpose is just a little playful nod to porn clichés, but I would argue that there's a bit more to it, because Kant and the captain's relationship actually has a very clear sexual component.

Not in that I think they fucked (in canon. i don't think they fucked in canon. i do think it should be explored in fics.), but the plain fact is that Christ is whoring Kant out. It probably didn't start that way, the begining of their partnership was probably more "you have names and contacts and I want them" but how could it stay like that? Once Kant gave all the name he already had, once the captain started to assign him to cases he had no previous contacts with, no point of entry, do we really believe Kant wasn't expected to exploit a sexual angle? I think the people who say Kant didn't have to make Bison fall for him are kidding themselves, and not only because there would be no story if he hadn't. Our societies are far less suspicious of the idea of a stranger suddenly getting close to you because they're hoping for sex than it is of a total stranger getting close to you with hopes of friendship. That's just how it is! You make friends in the circles you already run in, and with the general understanding that real intimacy will be slowly built overtime. Meanwhile a random hookup can have access to your bedroom the very night they met you. There's just no contest: for the kind of missions Kant seems to be sent on, with absolutely no backup or cover story or anything, seduction is pretty much the only trick up his sleeve, especially if the captain presses him for fast results like he did in the show. (not to mention that, on an almost "meta" aspect, the captain chose a young man who's Thai BLs level of conventionally attractive to do his dirty work) The captain may not have said "I need you to have sex with dangerous people", if only to have a layer of legal plausible denial, but he certainly expected it, and even if - a big if - Kant got the idea himself for expediency the first time, Christ kept placing him in situations where he would have to do that again. The captain's a pimp, the currency is intel, and the show said "you don't have to face it if you don't want to, that might be a bit much for a romcom, but we are not shying away from it." Or at least that's where my reading currently lands.

And I do think it's interesting that the two times we were reminded of this aspect of sexual coercion, it was followed first by the KantBison mutual dubcon of episode 3, and second by the captain actually bothering to look physically threatening to Kant for the very first time. Because as you pointed out in the tag under this post, the show plays super interestingly on First Kanaphan's actual height and how often Kant is dwarfed by others, but the captain almost never bothers to use his own considerable height. He sits. He lounges. When he gets up it's never into Kant's space. He can turn his back on him without fear. He doesn't threaten, he reminds. Until Kant himself threatens not just to quit but to bite back and suddenly the confrontation is physical, even though they're not touching. A reminder not just of the consequences, but of their respective place. Then it passes, and here's the nonchalance again: Christ goes back to his ashtray.

And if I may abandon sincere media analysis for just a second and be a little cheeky? Here's a picture of the captain in his sofa, knee slightly parted, Kant coming toward him. And the cigarette I called one of tv's most beloved phallic symbols?

yeah, it's pointing up.

[xbraveheartx]

Can we all agree to the fact that Romeo was, with 100% certainty, a drama arts kid ??

My guy put on a whole ass mini play for you when you first enter the Opera House, in order to convey and warn you of Geppetto's scheme... and then drops in dramatically with a shit eating grin and offers you his hand like he did the perfect job at getting across the grand evil plot-- and goddammit he did !! He nailed it right on the head!

He showed us exactly what was happening! Gave us literally the whole ending plot, front and center stage!

Romeo is an A+ storyteller, actor, set designer, costumer, and all around theater kid. Adelina Corday whomst?! Step aside for Romeo !!

[proxythe]

when a shadow misses an attack on yukari in reload and she says “you think you can hit me?” + when a shadow misses an attack on akihiko in reload and he says “think that’s gonna hit me?” …

i think about it all the time. i am thinking about it currently and wont stop thinking about it for yhe rest of time forever

+ this

they taunt shadows exactly the same way… how could i not constantly think about them as a duo

​akihiko’s best friend is shinjiro. his closest friend is mitsuru. his twin flame??? yukari takeba

[littlesapphicraccoonguy]

//SPOILERS FOR DYING BREED‼️

SOMEONE NEEDS TO TAKE AWAY MY PHONE AND MY SKETCHBOOK AND MY PENCILS 😭😭😭

[lleggosll]

@slumbrr-r take this for now while I go and abuse my hands and mental state some more now bai

[gently-decaying-flowers]

context: i was making jokes with my mom about needing cargo shorts for the big pockets- big pockets needed so i can smuggle drugs (i was really trying to cover up being trans but this has turned into a running joke)

ANYWAY

my stepdad just told me this story

so my mom was like “we gotta go get the drug smuggling shorts today” and my stepdad said

“yk what if she was being serious?”

mom, “there’s no way she’d be able to do that”

stepdad- “what if she fell into the wrong crowd or smthn?”

mom, “she’d have to fall into a crowd first”

OKAY MOM WAY TO POINT OUT I DONT HAVE FRIENDS 💀

[evil-but-refined]

I have to say, I thought getting into South Park would lead to a fall out of interest with Malevolent since that's normally how things go, I get a new interest and I stop being obsessed with the last thing I was interested in, but I'm still obsessed with Malevolent. Every few thoughts is still about Malevolent, I still post all the time about Malevolent. Hell my brain won't stop entertaining a sp au that's based on Malevolent. I can't fucking do this, why does this disembodied voice and British private investigator have such a hold on my brain, how do I stop it???

[v33beezz]

Y'all, is it a bad sign if I've started acting like how Mafuyu acts with Niigo regularly in a couple discord servers... Is this foreshadowing?!?!?! Boutta get Untitled in my Spotify or smth somewhere

[rotisseries]

tlou part 2 is so completely devastating, especially the last hour of it, but it's also very funny to me when taking it out of context.

ellie is living the cottagecore lesbian farm life, with an entire wife and kid, but she's so obsessed with this other bitch that she goes deadbeat dad to track her across several states, where aforementioned other bitch is living the single mom life in santa barbara. even better, she gets there!! and abby is just like. oh god. not you again. I don't have time for this🙄. and ellie. who has crossed 4 states for this. is just like. well you'll make time🔪

insanity!! it's hysterical

[tiger-moran]

When you see someone insulting people who don't care about 'johnlock' and then go on to talk about RDJ Holmes/Moriarty hatesex

[birdricks]

been thinking about this dialogue again.