#the best jabs

[thelonelyafab]

do i seriously look like someone u wanna fuck with

[thecmaly]

can't even cat nap in peace 😾

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more windbreaker comics

[felikatze]

i feel like. the more i like and care about something. the less i am capable of watching video essays about it. game i never heard of and don't intend to ever play? sure i'll watch 8hrs discussing it's flaws.

but thing i like? if you think you can point out flaws i'm not already aware of, you are dead wrong. none know better how much my interests suck than me.

and also. if you get one thing wrong about them i'll maul you. with things i like it means i've already seen every single piss on the poor take of it ever, and i'm much more polarized. i got emotional investment. i'm going to start biting people.

[oneluckydragon]

"Suddenly the world was gray and dull and my heart was so heavy I felt like I couldn’t move, let alone make it back to Treasure Town. But because of Echo’s last wish… I was able to keep living.”

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SORA : (Partner)

Abilities: Justified / Inner Focus

Nature: Gentle / Hardy

Moveset: Aura Sphere / Metal Claw / Poison Jab / Dragon Pulse

[essektheylyss]

Essek: [infodumping about the Aeorian enchantment chamber]

me: [chin in one hand, kicking my feet, twirling hair]

[bonefall]

I’m rereading Po3 and despite its flaws I really enjoyed the introduction to the three. Jaykit isn’t mentioned to be blind in the first few chapters and instead they chose to show how much MORE capable he is compared to his littermates; until at the end of chapter 3, he brings up his blindness on his own. It makes forcing him to be a medicine cat SO much more frustrating because it really feels like they’re setting him up to be a warrior and choose his own fate (note i haven’t finished the reread this is just my first impression)

I like how you seem to take that path in BB regardless! It makes his arc so much more enjoyable

His arc in canon is super frustrating because he's such an independent character who clearly wants to make his own decisions in life, but then he just gets shoved into the medcat den. I LIKE that he ultimately goes there and that he enjoys it; but it was still really fucked up that they stripped away his autonomy in the process.

Re: they are not real, they are writing choices. Taking away the choices a disabled character can make over their own life, forcing them into a celibate nun role, and then going "awwwww dont worry see? he likes it! This was the best thing for him :)" was fucked up.

And imo it didn't have to be that way! You wouldn't have to go the FULL route I did with big changes, he could just be more involved in the descision to stop being a warrior apprentice and it would be fine. Minor change that would make a world of difference.

I do also have to interject to say though... blindness should really not be an extremely severe impairment for a ThunderClan cat.

I'm dead serious.

Whiskers are built-in sensors that tell you the exact position of everything within several inches of your head, ears swerve to pick up sound, and the jacobson's organ provides a sense of smell so keen that I have an entire Clanmew expansion draft because I needed to make WORDS describing the power of this sense that humans do not have. I cannot stress enough how delicate their other senses are, felines do not rely on their sight like primates do

ThunderClan lives in a mixed-oak woodland, where sight is already often obscured by foliage, objects are close together (for whiskers to feel), and nearly every movement makes noise against the leaf litter. RiverClan and (moor-running) WindClan cats would have a harder time with this disability than Thunder or Shadow.

Cat sight SUCKS to begin with. It sucks BADDD. They don't have color vision, they're significantly nearsighted, and they can't track up-and-down movements well. WC doesn't write realistic cats (more like small fuzzy people really) and I also work with more humanesque eyesight, but the only thing Jay should really lose is an ability to rapidly track a small animal swerving fast. Blind cats are often still excellent hunters in spite of that!

So it's an extra big waste that they railroaded him into a position he didn't choose, saying he couldn't be a warrior. This is the perfect disability to write, if you want to explore how ableism can impact the characters in this society who ARE legitimately still capable of nearly full independence, but still need to find accommodations for what they can't do.

In the same arc they're doing the dumb Cinder Reincarnation Plotline, no less!! Where SHE is also feeling like she has no choice over her "destiny," and gets a conflict over a potentially disabling injury

"Oh nooo if cinderpaw breaks her leg she wont be a warrior!"

"What the f-- Im Jaypaw and im reporting live from the scene where a Category 1 Idiot Moment is taking place. Woman breaks leg, suddenly everyone believes she is a horse, more at 11."

One of these days I should really make "herb guides" just covering how various sensory disabilities impact the lives of Clan cats and some tips for writing them as warriors, especially between Clans. Stuff you wouldn't usually consider, like how much noise deaf cats tend to make, how RiverClan would get a ton of sinus infections and lose their sense of smell, being blind in Sky vs Thunder, etc.

[karaspal]

claiming tim drake has done the most progress to the mantle of robin, or that adaptations heavily draw inspiration from him to give to the other robins because he has the longest robin run, is quite silly. after all, linda danvers also had the longest-running supergirl run, yet her influence on adaptations is mostly limited, much like drake’s, to her costume (STAS), and no one is claiming she’s objectively the best supergirl because that would also be silly. perhaps, the most notorious thing about tim’s robin are his pants? at the end of the day, the most iconic robin will always be dick grayson and the most iconic supergirl will always be kara zor-el.

[enha-stars]

jay is so aditya kashyap coded, oh my god. from the haircut to the glasses to the mannerisms and tough exterior. i might actually start tweaking because huh

[professorsta]

I'm watching a Overly Sarcastic Productions video about secret identities and one part that caught my interest was the relation to secret identities and superheroes in a time before technology, (zorro for example) where all the over power would need to do is burn their house down to stop them if they knew who they were (indirect quote from the video)

That being said

Anti hero/secret identity merlin au.

From the beginning he wears a mask and dark clothing so no one can tie back his crimes to the princes manservant. He doesn't go by Emrys or any name, which infuriates Uther and intrigues Arthur. Id say even uses his ability to shape shift to thwart the knights and go in as a spy either in camelot or other scenarios. Arthur has met merlin multiple times doing this, once as a noblewoman at a masquerade ball wearing a black lace fabric hat covered only their eyes. It didn't register until later for him who that might have been the poor idiot

Arthur certainly knows (and alot at that) about the "folk hero" going about his lands, hatefully from his father thats for sure. (Arthur doesn't know he's met the "hero" many times, every morning. Some days he makes it hard for said hero not to turn beat red from how much he laments about him throughout the day to the man himself, flattering as it is)

Scenario where uther has sent arthur to track the man down after he's been sighted, and once meeting for the "first time", they connect immediately in such a way that it gives arthur whiplash and makes him think of anther encounter where it felt as is he had already known the person

Just - merlin who is a magic vigilante who hides his identity and swoons the prince? Fuck yes

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

"Cuhut it out- you guys!" "Nu-uh, not until you're all perked up first! You don't want those gym challengers meetin' with an ol' mopey leader, do ya?" "Whitney's right, dear friend. No need to hide that beautiful smile of yours, alright?~"

What it takes to cheer up Johto's beloved ghost boy 👻💕

[nhura]

I'm absolutely still scratching my head at Ratio's localized name/title... In most languages, the character is called Dr. Ratio. His name is Veritas Ratio. This is normal

In CN, it's as follows:

Dr. Ratio -> 真理医生 -> zhēnlǐ yīshēng -> Doctor* of Truth

Veritas Ratio -> 维里塔斯•拉帝奥 -> wéilǐtǎsī lādìào -> Veritas Ratio again

"Ratio" originates from the Latin root for "logic/reason". But why did it slide in place of "Truth"? "Veritas" means truth! But he's still Veritas in CN! Doctor of Truth is a distinct title separate from Veritas Ratio. Is it just because "Dr. Truth" sounds stupid? Maybe!!

*Medical doctor/scholar, as opposed to 博士 (PhD) or 老師 (teacher). I'm curious as to whether or not that would make sense of his one flavor text where he's like.. something along the lines of "Even if I tell people a thousand times, the answer will not change. It's 'Doctor', not 'PhD'."

Looking back at leaks from a year-ish ago (sighs fondly in nostalgia of the time we only had his face and "Dr. Ratio is Imaginary"), translations kind of went back and forth on whether or not they referred to him as Dr. Ratio or Doctor of Truth. Everyone had an opinion on what was the better name. Sadly, his name is funny no matter what.

[best-movie-ever-tournament]

Jab we met:

the beginning of the song (where he’s wearing the black kurta and looks down at his hands and then shyly looks up at her before singing) is literally the female gaze… (here on youtube)

Strange Magic:

Jukebox musical! With sparkles!

[forecast0ctopus]

which characters do you want to draw more of?

yknow i feel like this is probably more pointed towards star trek. which there ARE a lot of trek characters id like to draw more of. but you just opened a whole can of worms man theres so much stuff i love that i havent really done much fanart for..... i want to do scooby-doo fanart soooo bad but i never get past the sketch phase....i havent drawn hardly any paranatural in ten years... woould love to draw more my babysitter's a vampire fanart its been so long since ive drawn those guys....... ive wanted to do jaane tu ya jaane na redraws for the longest time... okay i wont go on any longer ill stick anythin g else. in the tags lmao

[rubbermalletrabbit]

Why am seeing so many posts saying the minecraft movie has been redeemed.did we watch the same trailer!? It's still looks like ass.

What it's all alright now because funny man made a reference to meme? What happened to memes sucking the moment a brand references them? Honestly what happened to not referencing current memes because they'll be outdated in a while but the media still exists.

Cause the line delivery at the beginning suuucks sooo much where its obvious its a 'how do you do fellow kids moment' like is that just me? It doesn't feel like he's recounting his backstory it feels like he's just going 'yeah I mined like in minecraft hehe get it 😜 '

Idk I could just be being an unnecessary hater but like the movie is in no way redeemed or better it still has the same fundamentally flaw of being a cash grab with no love for the source put into it

[psalmsofpsychosis]

Today on Everyday I Wake Up And Gotham TV Hurts Me news: You think Wayleska is not canon? i'm hereby referring you to Fred Alford's essey on the nature of evil and how we're wired to react to it.

Next i'm reminding you that in season 3 Bruce desperately tries to define his connection with Selina in common terms and pull her into a semblance of a relationship, and Selina refuses the labels. "We do we have to be anything? Why can't we just be Selina and Bruce?" and eventually they grow into something far more complex and deeper and more meaningful and multifacated than the combination of a bunch of definitions.

in Season 5 Jeremiah desperately tries to define his connection with Bruce and pull him into a semblance of a relationship, and Bruce refuses to engage with the idea of Jeremiah putting a name to them, "enemies" "brothers" "best friends", and really what they end up being is simply Bruce and Jeremiah. Following this thread of thought, you can see the narrative disclosing to you, the audience, that by utterly refusing any and all definitions for what he and Jeremiah are, in principle Bruce is acknowledging that he does not see Jeremiah as evil nor does he see a true foundational need to contain him, and with this choice in his mind his connection with Jeremiah Valeska is elevated to hold the same quality and cadence as his connection with Selina.