#these some great stuff op

[somewhereincairparavel]

'i hate jason grace because he thought he was worthy enough to compete with percy' I'm sorry have y'all SEEN jason. this man defeated a TITAN without weapons and his bare hands to the point the titan wanted to rise from the UNDERWORLD with the help of a GODDESS to seek vengeance over him. I think we can cut him slack for having some well deserved self respect bc I'd brag too wtf

[kacievvbbbb]

Was watching a YouTube video about the theory that Mihawk was initially the first mate of the red hair pirates, called “The greatest Mihawk Theory Ever Made” by the Hidden Island.

And it’s a great video and a pretty solid theory with fun evidence. But what’s pertinent here is that the creator suggests his own take on how Shanks and Mihawk’s story could be resolved or explored more and that’s by having Shanks win Mihawk in a straw hat, red hair pirates, cross guild wide Davy Back fight. and hit him with a “Good to have you back Hawkeyes”

Ahhhhrectruuundwdgb

I can’t tell you how unwell this scenario makes me I think about it once a day and I might die if I never get to see this but will actually die if it does happen.

[mishy-mashy]

I said this in a whole reblog, but just copy-pasting to a separate post because I think it'll give some reading comprehension and reblogs don't show up in the search feature.. again, I'm reiterating what I said in another post.

Go check out @demidokuriya 's post for this; OP's post made me put this all down in like. 20 minutes. Mind went vroom vroom cuz HEY THEY'RE ONTO SOMETHING.

(They also reblogged the post with some hint to some behind the scenes of what led to the ideas if you wanna check that out)

Look below at how, when Mineta told AFO to spare Tokoyami, AFO specifically went "..."

He remembers Jirou and thinks, The braying howls of the weak...

He was going to take Tokoyami's Quirk. He took Hawks'. But after Mineta pleaded with him, AFO just straight-up left and didn't take anyone else's Quirk.

AFO saw Yoichi in Mineta.

These scenes are near-identical to each other.

Mineta and Yoichi (at that time) are both much smaller than the normal person at their age

They're both hurt, yet dragged themselves up from the ground to throw something at AFO, to get his attention and make their voice

Both are considered weak, even if they have a Quirk (Mineta's Pop-Off and Yoichi's undeveloped Factor)

The fact that Yoichi got AFO's attention here by throwing a can at him, while Mineta got his attention by throwing a Pop-Off ball; and it stuck.

Mineta's call for his attention landed and actually stuck to AFO. This is unlike when Yoichi and his can bounced off, and AFO kicked him, not listening to him; AFO listened to Mineta and left Tokoyami alone, technically doing what Mineta wanted—to not hurt this person.

AFO just went on to hurt more people away from Mineta's [Yoichi's] eyes so the small weakling wouldn't see.

Yoichi and Mineta both cried to AFO to not hurt in his ways, when AFO was intent on stealing people's Quirks

AFO even stole Hawks' Quirk during this time.

He had time to steal Hawks' Quirk, and though he could've tossed him to the side, he let Hawks stand in his way.

He had the energy. Right after this event, he flew off and left the scene. But he didn't go for Tokoyami immediately.

And this let Mineta play his part, and remind AFO of Yoichi.

"A putrid, festering Quirk Factor."

That sounds like Yoichi, AFO.

".. such garbage."

Hey hey hey, what did Yoichi throw at him when they were kids?

A discarded can. Garbage.

This chapter (385) where AFO listens to Mineta is literally called [A Youthful Urge].

Mineta told AFO to take his Pop-Off (hurt him) instead. But last time, AFO hurt Yoichi by kicking him; this time, AFO not only listened to Mineta to not hurt Tokoyami, but didn't touch Mineta at all.

Even though this time, Mineta [Yoichi] offered to take that place of suffering.

Yoichi didn't do that back then. AFO just turned on little Yoichi anyway.

Yoichi through his whole existence is literally [the braying howls of the weak]. AFO acknowledges he's weak and idealistic, yet he still loves him.

Side note about this panel, I think it's interesting that in this vision, this was the first time we saw Yoichi's eyes: when he was being defiant, despite being pushed down by someone much stronger than him.

Really characteristic of him, honestly. Yoichi's soft-spoken and frail, but it's always reiterated that Yoichi had a powerful will against his stronger big brother.

Mineta at this moment reminded him too much of Yoichi, because the two scenes are near-identical to each other. Parallels, really.

Reiterating something from OP's post that I reblogged this from;

"The reminder of his brother made him uncomfortable, so he hurried away."

AFO didn't want to hurt Yoichi again.

[strawberrycamel]

hey psst c'mere... no a little closer... a little closer- there we go

Loop lips are part of a racist caricature of Black people. Stop drawing Black characters with loop lips. I don't care how they look in canon, it's racist.

okay that's all you can go

[jay-birbs-can-draw]

Sooo the ‘great idea’ I told you guys about didn’t actually work out but I did end up with a bunch of drawing for Servant of the Primacy so eat up

Why is the fire green you ask? Because Cybertron is made of metal and copper burns green. Also it looks cooler.

[r0semultiverse]

The line reads on these, especially the last one, sounded a lot like Zuko in the show proper.

[cescalr]

he was having such a time of it (bad)

[moonsworndandelion]

wano arc is so long and there's so much hapenning and I can't differentiate between the black haired lady characters and it's getting me frustrated

but each time I want to give up I I remember that it stands between me and cross guild

[reflectionsofgalaxies]

gonna do the stupid thing for my stupid mental health

[aeolianblues]

Occasionally I get messages from people that only know my music taste from the radio show I do, which in fairness to them is close to my actual taste in music because I wouldn't ever play something I genuinely disliked, but the radio work doesn't cover all of the music I like. And so people are sometimes surprised when, for example I end up talking about well-known American bands (the show is on new and upcoming British and Irish music). I closed out last week's Osheaga-themed show with Green Day and Chappell Roan, and had someone say they hadn't had me down as a Green Day listener because I guess they'd imagined I was on the Britpop side of the 90s rock music scene war. When in fact I grew up 90s grunge!

[qqchurch]

frieren anime premiere was pretty great, melancholic with spurts of silliness so far

pretty much blind to the plot except maybe one or two bits i've come across all these years (that thing about demons) and the first manga chapter that i've read ages ago but i'm having fun with what's presented so far

also liking how much Time and Progress is baked into the world because it really has been almost 90 years since the "journey's end"

[jonathanbyersphd]

If I see one more post that started here was screenshoted shared on Pinterest/Instagram/Etc and then makes it back here with no credit to the original poster I'm gonna scream

[nerdyqueerr]

Was blocking a blog and saw they rbed some dumbass terf post abt the sancticity and anti-patriarchy victory of womens sports whatever whatever point is there were a few lines about rugby in it and. It was so instantaneously obvious that the poster didnt know shit abt rugby it was truly hilarious. And also keep rugbys name out of your mouth if anyone on my rugby team met you they would kick your ass

[aminta]

only one episode before breaking bad 😔😔😔😔😔😧😧😧😧😧 im NOT ready

[paradife-loft]

language & writing headcanon dump

some Quenya, some Sindarin; mostly just wanted them collected in one place

some of the first sarati texts written in Aman, prior to the invention of paper, were written on bamboo strips. early early beginnings of writing, of the sort that Rúmil (&co) would've worked on during the Great Journey, would've been on animal hides, but in Aman, most of what was produced by hunting and raising livestock was diverted to other purposes instead - it was relatively a rarer material, that couldn't be replenished as quickly & easily as bamboo groves could be, and people wanted leather for clothing & shoes. (I'm also contemplating the idea of bamboo growing prominently on Taniquetil, which a) is pretty and b) would lend another spiritual dimension to its use as a writing material.)

the presence of the bar that each sarat attached to in most attested "standard"/book use, then originally started out as a representation of the edge of each bamboo strip that a line of text would be written on, for aesthetic reasons as well as greater clarity between lines when written on paper (or other materials). (vowel diacritics, since they go on the opposite side of the bar from each consonant sarat, were then a later addition once paper took over as the primary writing material - and I'm inclined to say could still be left off if the writer chose to do so. written texts didn't start out intended as stand-alone documents, but more like memory aids to known oral Quenya traditions.)

(genuinely don't remember if this is explicitly written in canon anywhere, but it's heavily enough implied either way - the Quendi absolutely developed a strong oral culture, and most groups retained this to a significant degree, even when the Noldor showed up later with writing.)

even though the tengwar eventually displaced it (among the Noldor anyway) for regular use, I do really like the idea of heavily stylized, artistic sarati calligraphy continuing to be a thing - at least in Aman, for sure; I think it'd probably drop by the wayside in Beleriand in favor of. well if you're doing calligraphy, do it in the letters we can all actually read. (less interest in things with a vibe of being intentionally antiquated, for one; and less interest (though certainly not none) in things that would be purely beautiful without a corresponding functional aspect.) - but yeah, calligraphic sarati perhaps being one of the main places the doubled/mirrored letter forms would get used; also I'm thinking about ways the bar attachment would be stylized in single-sided compositions, with broken-up pieces of it just the right size to demarcate the boundaries between words.

on a different note - I've mentioned/alluded to this a couple times, but it's 100% my headcanon that the tengwar Mode of Beleriand was a Curufin invention - and I'm even more in favor of this after discovering that, per the general tengwar page on the same site, "Contrary to the beliefs of Rúmil and his contemporaries, Feanor thought that the vowels had a phoneme value equal in importance to that of the consonants. The vowels were in the Tengwar, as in the Sarati, still usually represented by diacritic marks, called ómatehtar or “vowel-marks”. This was solely for the sake of compactness, though, and Feanor also constructed a mode for Quenya where each vowel was assigned to a tengwa. This mode was primarily intended for the “loremasters”, and was rarely used." like I just love the idea of Curvo setting out to standardize writing for Sindarin and going okay y'know what, if we get to start from scratch, we are BRINGING BACK DAD'S LINGUISTIC THEORIES (which are objectively correct) while we're at it!

(and then people still went largely and used tehtar for Sindarin anyway. silly people.)(like I mean sure it's "what they're used to" and such, but, c'mon. innovation!!!!! justice for vowels!!!!)

(if you're wondering where you've heard of the mode of Beleriand from in the actual canon - the answer is "the Doors of Durin". it's the mode used for the inscription on the arches of the Doors of Durin. why yes this is all very intentional of me, why do you ask? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

another Curufin-and-writing thing - y'know what a quanta sarme/full-vowel mode is easier for than an omatehtar mode is? developing a movable-type printing press. I really like the idea of that being something Curufin & contemporaries were working on during the Long Peace in Himlad - perhaps intended initially for economic records, currency notes, etc. in East Beleriand (because what writing invention isn't first used for economic purposes lol), but also perhaps mass-distribution of musical scores, and general literacy promotion (esp among the Sindar who settled there too). I can also see the overall machine being something they'd gift to the Ered Luin dwarves, perhaps aiding in their wider adoption of the cirth.

alas, you probably can't lug printing presses halfway across the continent with a train full of refugees, so the existing models wouldn't have made it to Nargothrond after Himlad fell. and in general, I feel like elves would have less motivation to use or recreate them in a lot of circumstances - between the combination of oral traditions, good memories, small population sizes, lack of central written religious documents, and hand-writing/calligraphy/illumination absolutely being a defined craft among the Noldor, that would lend kind of an attitude of "okay but why though" to the whole idea of mechanically-produced writing, even in places where having mass-produced books for a civilian populace might've been more contextually appealing (cough, Gondolin). so ultimately, like a lot of things, the invention probably doesn't make it through the First Age intact.

.....unless I maybe wanna bring it back again for Ost-in-Edhil? we'll see. though even there, I feel like the elves would largely lack a lot of the time pressure that makes it an attractive invention in other contexts...? one reason I like Himlad/East Beleriand generally as a good setting for printing press development, is the way the war with Morgoth would create that time pressure in a way that wouldn't instinctively exist for many elves otherwise. so... yeah.

[coral-blossomz]

what if I make a one piece mermaid au haha jk… unless ?