#the potato begs

[anxiouspotatorants]

When will somebody have pity on my heart and just out of the blue send me a copy of a video recording of nytw Hadestown

[miwtual]

I'm evil, there’s no escaping from me Do or die!

MOTIONLESS IN WHITE performing “Demon In Your Dreams” at Wrestlemania XL — April 6, 2024

[otterpuppss]

[hamletthedane]

extremely niche meme for the five Texans who follow me

[thefallenangel2008]

Guys, I think I like characters with constant need for external validation.🤭

[bedforddanes75]

they need to add new crops to minecraft im gonna explode

[wildsaltair]

hi everyone, I am delighted to present to you the worst quality photos I have ever found of Maximus Decimus Meridius. I'm so unreasonably happy to have found these

[fyeahstormandwolvie]

Twitter and Reddit are both scary platforms for sharing and responding to fan content, so I won't reply directly to anything there, but sometimes I wish they'd credit or post the captions or other accompanying pictures when they take stuff from this (very old lol) blog �� (and I know they take it from here because a lot of the edits they repost are ones I made haha)

Not because of ownership - I only post panels or pages and would never claim to own the art - but because context is lost and sometimes purposely omitted, and that really sucks. It grinds my gears!!

This post brought to you by: stans claiming to know everything there is to know about the comics when they claim Ororo is "the other woman" (if I werent conflict averse I WOULD fight about this lmao do not @ me), or that Logan doesn't respect her at all, or that they're just friends (this is something I'll begrudgingly accept and chalk up to me being blinded by bias but, like.. this doesn't have to make a 'ship impossible lmfao better to have an enduring friendship and utter mutual respect as a foundation rather than stalker behavior OR because you needed someone to continue a royal bloodline)

I'm not saying they'll ever be canon again, or that the fandom would come back to life (it's been ten years since they were last canon 🥹) but... to say there's no basis when they have forty+ years of shared history, most of it good, a lot of it rife with UST, plenty of disagreements and keeping each other in line to keep things spicy... please don't embarrass yourself 😩

Sincerely, your friendly neighborhood RoLo scholar 💋

[joeyisourranger]

whatever happens tonight. hot coach

[maximura]

[fadelbison]

firstkhao are worryingly crawling into the oh no they might actually be dating zone- baby no I have at least 20 FK wips I need to finish before y’all decide to announce your relationship

[blessedbrick]

Reminder that these three men are all 28

[julie-hitsuji]

He was trying to be homophobic but he's too dumb to form a single thought

[3gremlins]

i watched both wolverine & deadpool and the finale of arcane today and my (shouldn't be hot take) on both is i really wish that hollywood would let those sad boyfriends say out loud that they love each other and kiss on screen. like hours of endless violence? totally fine. men saying out loud that they love each other? verboten and really just THE BIGGEST SIGH.

(at least arcane gave us on screen girlfriends but still)

[engagemythrusters]

im not finishing it bc it fucking sucks but this would have been the "attempted family photo but ezra forgot to come home from college and sabine would rather take the photo than be in it and kanan is just vibing while hera is five minutes from snapping and jacen is just a babie. he's a babie and he's got six teeths and he just wants to chomp something (someone)" drawing i could have done

[hamofjustice]

it's nice that we're getting anything i guess, but, i'm gonna be what may come off as a little petty and whiny here; it'd be cool if either iteration of the gen 9 anime so far was actually about gen 9's characters instead of using them as cameos to promote original stories we have no investment in yet

it's like, i dunno, like the bait and switch with sonic appearing in wreck it ralph ads, except if wreck it ralph existing meant there would never be a sonic movie, and if you were invested in those characters and recognized they weren't generic platformer mascots, sucks for you, nobody cares

maybe they're just giving the DLC space to do its thing with them first (if they do anything at all...) but idk, i was cautiously optimistic about nemona in horizons, only for her to be a character of the day that the episode wasn't about, and pretty excited by "gen 9 prequel anime" only to find out it's going to be like, four short stories about OCs who have quick brushes with them. these are like the lacroix hint of what an anime about the game could've been like and you're left to imagine the rest yourself

i shouldn't be that surprised if the gen 8 anime reduced hero of galar hop to a character of the day with a level 5 wooloo in order to let the galaxy revolve around ash battling his brother because epic charizards, but man. what if it wasn't like that that now that ash is gone.

we haven't seen penny and team star at all because they're the hardest to talk about without bringing up the trauma of school bullying and the fear of being yourself at school when you're way too young to be dealing with all that drama responsibly. she's still learning to love and forgive herself and feel wanted.

arven's story is about, like, being a latchkey kid to a self-absorbed parent, being unsure how to feel about repairing the relationship or how seriously to take them saying they love him, and struggling to make friends due to misdirected resentment toward people he's jealous of for having apparently normal families and the stubborn self-reliance he was forced into. he's still trying to process things, find himself, and let people in.

nemona is supposed to have been a directionless lonely and depressed kid who hated being called gifted when everything was hard for her, until she met the player character and gained a peer who understood and appreciated she was a little different and she didn't have to mask her true self to have friends anymore. she's happy for now, but may still be under a little too much pressure to be perfect at the expense of her own personality, and probably won't deal well with being abandoned.

as much as they resonate with adults and are a little darker than usual pokemon fare, they're also smaller scale and realer. they are all stories that are explicitly about and meant to be relatable to kids going to school! y'know, your audience! you don't need to paint over them with 3-4 new characters and new stories every time like there was nothing there, or something shameful you need to sanitize and cover up! you can just use the game the way it is!

this got a little more heated than i intended, i just feel a little ridiculous waiting anxiously for loose scraps of a sign that this story isn't over and in the trash already and nemona's life-changing attachment to the player character isn't going to go totally ignored, as we are bombarded with what is supposed to be followup material that almost all seems eager to talk about literally anything else like they think the main story was a mistake they need to run away from

now, i'm not one to complain about original stories being told, but this was already a story that had room to grow. imagine a world where the gen 9 anime was actually about nemona, arven, penny, and the friend who brought them together. or what their lives were like before that friend came along. every episode. that would get me to watch the anime again and whatever movie came out for it. ask yourself why we don't have that, or even the traditional, like, 1-2 characters tagging along with the MCs per region thing that would leave us knowing them better than we know some irl friends

how was starting over with 100% original characters and new lore that might conflict hard with the upcoming DLC the safer bet? why is a 44 minute miniseries specifically for fans of the game making up OCs for them to get invested in and scrambling to tell their stories as quickly as possible before throwing them in the trash instead of being about the damn game?

sigh. i shouldn't get invested in a series that's about selling monster plushies just because it had one story that stuck with me