#they are all dumb as bricks

[karizard-ao3]

Of all fanfics I've ever read, you have the best take on teenage Eremika, so I'd like to ask for your take on the following idea: Zeke and Levi know and despise each other. But Zeke not only tries to be the cool older brother, but he's also Eremika #1 shipper, tries to give his foolish lil bro some love advice. Meanwhile it's not that Levi hates Eren, but he's not really fond of him and doesn't really approve Mikasa dating him.

Eren and Mikasa have known each other their whole lives, but as they grew older it was obvious they had a thing for each other and Levi and Zeke engage in a proxy war of sorts over the dating life of their two lovesick teenagers, completely unaware that Eren and Mikasa are already getting together

Ah, thank you! That's really nice!

So, I really love the idea of Zeke and Levi not having any idea at first that Eremika are nursing crushes on each other, because then we have the opportunity for Zeke to give Eren advice on how to woo his unnamed damsel while, meanwhile, Levi is warning Mikasa what cheesy shit to watch out for and talking shit about Eren's Zeke-inspired romantic gestures.

For instance, Zeke tells Eren to walk his unnamed love interest home from school and pick a flower for her on the way and maybe tuck it behind her ear if he's feeling bold and tell her it's almost as beautiful as her.

Mikasa comes home with a daisy or a cosmo or something wilting in her hair and Levi is like, "So your mystery boy just stole that out of someone else's yard and gave it to you?" He rolls his eyes. "Did he tell you the flower is as pretty as you? God. No imagination. Aim higher."

Then they find out who their respective teen relatives are crushing on and everything ramps up even more. Every time Eren comes over, Levi gives him some variation or another of the "What are your intentions for my little girl?" speech, while Zeke is already hard at work on the most overwrought, cringy promposal Shingeki High School has ever seen. They're wreaking havoc on Eremika's love lives and they're each trying their best to please their elder relatives, but all they really want is to do is occupy the same space as often as possible and hold hands. Like, Eren is over at Mikasa's house one day wearing a tunic and holding a lute because of some cockamamie idea Zeke has dreamed up, and he's standing down below on the lawn and she's at her window on the second story, looking down at him, and he says, "You know, Mikasa, all I really want is to do homework together and then spoon on the couch while we watch TV. I just like being with you, and the rehearsals for all these grand gestures are eating up my free time. Zeke had me going to lute lessons all month for this."

"I think Levi and the neighbors would appreciate an end to all the musical numbers," says Mikasa. "Levi might even warm up to you a little bit."

Eren flings the lute over his shoulder and it lands in the middle of the street, then he rips off the tunic, forgetting that he's not wearing a t-shirt underneath. He's standing there in the yard, shirtless and in a pair of his mom's old leggings, when Levi gets home from work.

"What the hell are you doing now?" Levi demands, getting out of his car with murder in his eyes because he almost ran over the lute and fucked up his alignment or whatever (I'm not much of a car person).

Eren, knowing when to cut his losses and run, shouts up at Mikasa, "I love you! I'll see you at school tomorrow!" and bolts.

"I love you, too!" she cries, leaning out the window and waving at him as if it will be another 14 years instead of another 14 hours before they are reunited.

Levi stomps inside the house to give Mikasa yet another warning about the Jaeger boy being a waste of her youth while Zeke is at home happily preparing a powerpoint presentation of all the cutesy, flirty lines Eren could use the next time he's with Mikasa at a McDonald's.

[zillychu]

Can we draw Cricketnose interacting with our ocs is that legal

of course! cricket loves meeting new friends! in fact she's on her way to see your ocs now!

[shorthaltsjester]

it is quite funny to me as someone who studies philosophy and has had to have the conversations that bh and ludinus have been having many times over and often with people who like ludinus do not have any reading comprehension and truly like. the notion of “this shouldn’t exist” is almost always one that comes up regardless of whether it’s a discussion on the metaphysics of a potential God(s) or divinity, high political powers, or vehicles of systemic oppression. and what anyone who cares about people more than their ideals (even, sometimes, ideals that started out being about people but quickly come to be about the ideals themselves) realizes very quickly in a philosophical discussion about what should and shouldn’t exist is that it does not matter if what you’ve decided ‘shouldn’t’ exist does in fact already exist. like that tends to be the difference between sociopolitical philosophy that actually has teeth and substance in the world — a willingness to engage with the world as it is, not as it should be. because you can have the perfect image of a just and wonderful future world, but if you do not at every step reckon with the unjust world from which you are aiming at that future, you’re doing nothing. ideals are helpful because they aim us toward goals and hopes, but they’re nothing without a reality that grounds them.

and so people like ludinus, who in the real world would play the role of a graduate student with critical thinking skills that make every professor he comes across question how he arrived at his level of study, they don’t have Wrong ideals, there’s obviously plenty of reasons why an exandria without gods might in fact be a better place for mortals (there are also many Many reasons why it would not). but ludinus has also chosen his ideals to weigh heavier than the mortals he claims to uphold them with. i think ashton is also interesting, because i think a lot of their positions have a fun fluctuation between being ideal focused and person focused, where sometimes they’re focused on how unfair life is in a very nihilistic position, and at other times they seem quite clear about how much ideals help no one if they’re not second to the desire to help others. and i think that made their role in the convo with ludinus in 102 especially interesting and irritating (but in a narratively fulfilling way). anyway, truly so fun watching ludinus argue with the amount of fallacies and undeserved confidence of like right wing first year students in an ethics class explaining how actually the ends justify the means and thanos had the right idea actually if it means no more starvation. get a grip old man.

[epic-sorcerer]

“Arthur can totally dress himself he’s just spoiled” why are you giving him that much credit

[rabbitprincessthief]

gog i still can't get over minish cap vaati's Everything. He is So Fucking Stupid (affectionate)

Like. This guy's establishing character moment is, in order:

he's introduced as having won an entire tournament to get to touch a magic chest and get a cool sword, which was the prize for said tournament

turns around and does a goddamn evil soliloquy TEN FEET AWAY FROM THE GUARDS who were about to hand him his macguffin on a platter

(like this man fucks up his own horribly planned daylight heist because he cannot keep a lid on the dramatics for FIVE FUCKING MINUTES, IN PUBLIC)

(THE BAR WAS ON THE FLOOR VAATI, FUCKING GANONDORF PLAYS THE PIPE ORGAN FOR HIS OWN BOSS INTRO AND HE STILL KNOWS BETTER THAN THIS SHIT)

proceeds to fight the guards (it is, admittedly, a curbstomp for him, but it still clearly wasn't his plan, because otherwise why bother with the tournament)

gloats evilly

opens chest, unleashing a whole bunch of monsters

exposits out loud about Zelda's powers like a nerd while she is actively charging up her magic powers to kick his ass

RECOGNIZES and IDENTIFIES said magic as the special power carried by the female royal line

completely fails to recognize it as the light force he is currently trying to get his hands on (he spends like 99% of the game not figuring this out.)

petrifies her

(i have no idea if link could have deflected this spell if he had managed to get the right angle with his shield but i like to think somewhere there is a very short and very funny alternate timeline where it happens)

(more importantly: no part of vaati's original presumed plan would have involved doing this. he 100% created this situation for himself by being an dramatic idiot and picking a fight for no good reason.)

looks in the chest

there's no light force

considering his stated goals he might be as confused as you are about the monsters tbh

uhhh

evil laugh

teleports the fuck out

He then proceeds to spend the rest of the game trying to figure out where the light force is and ends up having to wait for Ezlo and Link to figure it out first because he was, as far as I can tell, GENUINELY stuck on this part. He fucking kidnaps and impersonates the King, not for access to Zelda, but to… send guards to go look for the Light Force, presumably because he was either running out of ideas or genuinely thought that would work.

None of the guards even had any idea what he was talking about. He's not even good at impersonating the King. He's already sent like twenty people to the dungeon by the time you get there and it hasn't even been a week. Somehow the game spins this as a cunning plan and clever manipulation or something.

(Meanwhile the guards are just. Poking around in random bushes and shit hoping to find the light force. One of them asks you what you think it might look like.)

Zelda is literally right next to the throne and Vaati does not figure it out until you find an actual honest-to-goodness LORE TABLET spelling out that the Light Force is Stored in the Zelda, at which point he's like "ahahaha you've done my work for me this was definitely my plan all along" and takes over the castle and throws a bunch of monsters at you to stall for time while he figures out how to extract the force from her. Somehow he still doesn't think to actually lock the fucking door.

[clarisinne]

the les mis musical has the weirdest take on marius it’s so funny like they concocted a whole song on him feeling guilt and shame and despair because his friends are dead but he actually doesn’t give a fuuuuckk in the brick like he thinks about them ONCE, for 0.1 seconds, before going back to thinking about cosette

[electric-plants]

slight hsr spoilers but—

they might as well have just impaled me on a stake

[kitnita]

jason robertson postgame — DAL vs STL — 12.27.23

[we just talked about — the comebacks are great, but you don’t want to get down two-nothing.] yeah, I mean … a couple breakdowns. it’s hard — it’s hard, I mean, we’ve been doing it all year — all past couple of years, but it’s not gonna happen every game. [I think it’s six — five out of the last six games you guys have either had a situation where you’ve had to come back and you did. and so in five of them you did and this was the first one that you didn’t win, or at least get points.] yeah. I mean, like I said, it’s hard, hard to do. um … [laughs] it’s hard, it’s hard to score. but you know, you don’t wanna get in that situation. but I mean, it did feel like we played pretty well in the third period, yeah. [and then what’d you see on your goal?] yeah, I mean, I just — we got a big kill, very big kill, and just got on the ice and had some, um — you know, was kind of fresh, so. just trying to … get open, and roop found me, and then I was able to score. [do you feel momentum off that? I mean, I know you’re not a penalty killer, but do you feel momentum off the penalty kill?] yeah, absolutely. it’s a big moment in the game. um, a two minute five-on-three in the nhl is … I mean, it’s, you’re not looking good. but I mean, our pk has been — our five-on-three pk has been excellent this whole year, um … our pk has been excellent, you know, the wall made some saves. um, it’s unfortunate we couldn’t tie the game up.

[multiversal-pudding]

…Welp. Surprise Bad Opinion time I guess :P

Personally, even after ep 6 I still kinda genuinely want at least part of the Solver/Cyn-as-we-know-her’s actions to be actually Cyn, or at least some distorted version of her?

Like, I know Tessa’s dialogue implied more that Cyn was just a puppet of something else + the whole “something made a pact with her” that’s definitely gonna come back later, but like also

tbh in a series with so many good examples of characters driven to terrible actions by their convictions, be it Doll putting vengeance above all else before realizing someone else was infected, Khan getting so lost in his fear he abandoned his own daughter and is still trying to be better, V just trying to put her head down embrace her role and survive while protecting N but only hurting him in the process until Uzi started forcing her to confront it by helping N- hell, even Uzi herself has shades of this in wanting to destroy humanity without really even considering maybe not all of humanity in general is personally responsible for every single bad? Not counting Camp Incident, that was more outside influence induced rampage

Not to disrespect anyone who has another opinion- I think there’s very good options with the other way around too, but like to say it’s just the Solver alone that made Cyn like that, and the Solver is some malicious entity directly responsible for making Cyn the monster she became. Feels kinda boring to me? (Not that I think the Solver’s SAFE mind you- it definitely gives off at the very least major “has side effects of Needs To Kill To Live + does not care what is done with its power beyond that good or bad/blue and orange morality + if the host is at risk it will hijack the host to preserve itself and *only/mainly itself*” vibes)- I feel like there’s a lot of potential in the perspective of like.

What if Cyn’s like an Uzi that gave up on humans and her fellow workers alike, once had that ideal of wanting to change the world only to have it fall into bitterness, then suddenly had all the power in the world to act on it dropped into her lap?

What if Cyn’s a foil to Uzi- an Uzi that got the power to fully destroy humans and DDs and everyone who ever bullied her but wasn’t able to take a step back and find something to care about outside that rage like she did with N in canon?

What if Cyn’s what Uzi could become- if not metaphorically, then literally

Also, NGL Tessa’s not exactly a 100% solid source in my eyes- like. I think she’s telling most of the truth but there’s definitely something deeper going on-

[spite-and-waffles]

Anyone who hates any of the Batkids is invalid I'm sorry I don't make the rules

[linipik]

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[deus-ex-mona]

has chizuutan been sitting this close to aizo in class all this time…?

[rosalesbeausderholle]

Apparently some people have moved on from "The 🦅🦅🦅American School System🦅🦅🦅 didn't teach me this because it actively censoring us so it completely made me incapable of using Wikipedia or reading the news at my big age of 24" to "I don't learn new stuff because I have teacher trauma (aka Miss Smith was kind of mean to me one day)". Imagine going through life like 😭

[bonkalore]

So my phone shut off randomly the other day and I finally went to get a new one and they informed me that that model of phone was just recently shut down collectively by Samsung and it's no longer able to turn on or ANYTHING. Just like that.

And the SIM card on it is apparently useless too; only stuff saved on the Cloud is viable. The thing you have to pay monthly for to use. Which I don't have.

So... That's gone I guess. Without warning.

[lesbianchemicalplant]

if you want your legos spread out around you rather than in bins: you can turn the lids of large plastic containers upside-down to use them as big lego trays. they're still basically on the floor, but you can also move them around / out of the way (albeit a little less efficiently than with bins)

[the-holy-ghosted]

What the fucks a guy gotta do to get a decent coffin around here. I mean really