#they could be two separate shows

[beemovieerotica]

carnival row is such a wild show because the sets, the costumes, the creature design, and the attention to visual detail are so luscious and yet the writing will whiplash you between the most interesting, painstakingly written sideplot and the yawn-inducing heterosexual main plot which takes up 70% of screentime because the main guy is a producer who is dating the main girl

[a-concert-just-for-me]

Okay in response to this post I’m going to “Erm Ackshully 🤓☝️” y’all’s arguments (but really, this is for shits and giggles and I find y’all’s ideas and this conversation so interesting!!!)

(And logically, yes, I know the show wants you to believe that Hunter’s just immediately scarred/has no pain because they likely didn’t want to fit a healing arc into their limited storytelling time. I get it. I do. I’m just making the argument why it would be easy to argue that they are actually open wounds/why I feel like if they were going to do this arc, they should have considered giving a fraction of the proper weight to to the horrifying consequences of such a severe injury.)

Okay so without further ado! We have Hunter pre-Belos. When we look at him, his original scar is on the left side (his right cheek, but I’ll use left for our argument from now on for simplicity’s sake)

Next, we have Belos leaving Hunter’s body. Notice how the big goop scar on the left side overtakes the original left side scar.

In addition, the small scar on the right is shown to be caused by Belos’s goop.

Therefore, I think it’s safe to say from this double evidence that the scar on the right isn’t just an animation error of his original scar being on the wrong side.

Keep this in mind for later!

Next, here’s Hunter after Belos leaves his body. Note the size, color, and shape of his scars here:

“Calaiti,” you might say to my argument, “Flapjack healed him! That’s why his scars aren’t open wounds and/or why they don’t cause him pain!”

OBJECTION! Evidence:

Remember when I said to remember that one photo? Here’s where that comes into play. Hunter’s scars before and after Flap reviving him have been shown several times to be the same size, shape, and color. Absolutely nothing changes!!! They look the same before and after consistently!!!

Also, notice how Flap’s magic only ‘heals’ the left side of his face and neck. The small scar on the right doesn’t light up at all. Then, the left side scars STILL match the ‘unhealed’ wound on the right after Flap dies!!! Shouldn’t there be a visual difference between the healed and unhealed wounds, then?

I’ll admit, this whole section of the episode has a bunch of animation mistakes. See an example below, where the animators forgot the scars on Hunter’s ears during this scene. Therefore, you could use the argument that the animators just forgot to draw the right side lighting up during the revival sequence if you feel so inclined. Sure!!!

BUT to that, I’ll propose this thought: If the animators wanted to show that Flap was actually healing the scars, wouldn’t it be visually more telling to have the scars be darker and/or bigger before Flapjack reviving him, and lighter and/or smaller after, to show there was some kind of resulting change there? Just because they lit up during the revival sequence doesn’t necessarily mean that was Flap healing him. Visually, again, they look exactly the same consistently before and after Flap ‘heals’ them.

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Moving on to the argument of why Hunter doesn’t have any pain after all this, sure, maybe Hunter was running off adrenaline and the pain hits him later. I suppose that’s fair! Doesn’t mean I like it!!! Doesn’t mean I think he shouldn’t have received medical attention even though he said he was okay!!! If we have time for a whole Hexside arc, I think even if he was in shock (which would likely come with a whole host of medical issues which he is not shown to have imo! (Look up ‘burn shock’)), they should have at LEAST insisted on checking him over instead of taking his word that he’s okay!!! He would have been pissed about it lol but idc, show them sitting his ass down and having a healer look at him to show as writers, you’re treating this life-changing injury with the seriousness it deserves.

And if they didn’t feel like doing it before the Belos fight, I would have even accepted them making time to acknowledge the physical and psychological trauma of TTT somewhere else in the last episode. The most we get is Hunter looking sadly at Willow reuniting with her parents before Darius comes along and starts talking to him. It feels like a huge missed opportunity to skip over any negative consequences or closure for Hunter. We just skip to him being healed and happy with no further lines in the show, and that’s a shame to me!

Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED Talk on me defending my goofy headcanon thesis and why I (seriously) think this whole scene should have been handled with a bit more care and consideration to realistic consequences of such an injury.

(This is still my favorite episode though 🤭)

[sebson]

I am intrigued. What *is* the Indian gp paddock pass incident? Tell me tell me tell me please

- A sewis ready to be a sewis/sebson

in 2011 sebson was off the charts for unknown reasons. however, there is one event to rule them all: the 2011 indian gp paddock pass incident.

the gist is that these two show up early in the morning to the paddock and they swipe their paddock entry badges as one does. lo and behold there is a twist! seb swipes his badge. sebastian vettel's face pops up on the tiny screen and seb covers that. jenson swipes his badge. sebastian vettel's face pops up on the tiny screen and jenson covers that.

why? why is this the case? why does sebastian have two paddock passes? was this all some elaborate prank? if that's the case, why did both of them cover it up when they should've just gone "got ya!" towards the other? does sebastian lose his credentials that often that he needs two passes? if so, why does jenson have one of them? did jenson lose his credentials and needed to borrow one of sebastian's? if so, why (again) does sebastian have two passes? the picture of seb that appears when jenson swipes the badge looks like a younger sebastian. is that an old pass? if so, why is it still active? why is the incident erased from the internet (as far as i can tell) so that only gifsets and oral history remains? why did no one question this incident enough to get a documented interaction with said incident that would be immortal on the internet?

all of these questions and more remain connected to this incident. the best i can leave you with is that one day answers will be firm in history and confirmed by historians. but until then, this incident will remain mostly a mystery as to how it started and how it unfolded.

i leave you with a gifset. see the incident for yourself.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 346

So I’ve been thinkin’ about the game Pressure, and two things about the lore. Specifically Sebastian Solace’s lore. 

One, Sebastian after causing the lockdown by letting out most of the other creatures, has been in contact with a “rival company” giving information/data in exchange for (presumably) freedom. Now my first thought, curse my hyperfixations, is he could totally be in contact with someone associated with the JL, maybe Oracle, maybe someone else. Or even in desperation contacting a villain.

Two, part of the dna & whatever else he’s spliced with is redacted. And so it could hypothetically totally be ectoplasm. A not-quite halfa not-quite ghost and not-exactly liminal situation going on, but still. He interacts with us after we die too, he’s part of the ‘here’s what killed you’ screen. Which hypothetically means he could see ghosts. 

Do you see where I am going with these things? 

[camellcat]

CAMPBELL BAIN U MEAN EVERYTHING TO ME I LOVE YOU!!!!!!

fun extras since this took me FOREVER!!

anddd finally, here's a playlist of the music I listened to while working on this! it's definitely not my usual tunes but I swear I was just so much more productive and better at drawing him when I switched to these hahaha

[cinerins]

The thing that pisses me off the most about the inhibitor chip retcon is that they act as if Order 66 is the primary directive while attributing the rest to a vague ✨️Mindcontrol✨️ obedience. The way TCW introduced the whole deal with Tup immediately trying to kill any Jedi in sight when his chip malfunctions was so incredibly stupid to me.

How does a "malfunction" like that even work? Why would it specifically trigger that response and not also any of the other contingency orders, like, I don't know, the one that has them blowing up an entire planet or arresting everyone in the room.

Yes, the clones' main purpose was as an effectively cruel way to kill 99.9% of germs Jedi but that was... hardly all of it. They're an intrinsic part of the imperial machine; there's a reason so many orders exist and that reason is control. If Palpatine only wanted to get rid of the Jedi, he could've just invested in assassins or a nuke, but that wasn't the point.

It's meant to be systematic. It's about how easily a democracy can slip into fascism simply by taking one step after another. That's why I personally preferred the idea of the clones being indoctrinated into following these orders; they were quite literally made and raised to think that way. They serve as the deliberate template that would help shape the galaxy in a way where soon enough willing participants would continue to take their place.

Pushing all of that off on a conventional mindcontrol chip just feels cheap and undermines the whole idea of how anyone could end up thinking that way. How despite all of their individuality and differences, at large, the clones still follow the same orders, the same expectations. And how much more meaningful it is when you question it and consciously choose to break away from it. To fight it.

[doctorwhoisadhd]

theres just so many interesting things you could do if you staged chimes of midnight tbh....

[fictionadventurer]

Sitting on my hands kicking my feet waiting to hear when you watch Skeleton Crew finale :333

I watched it!

It stuck the landing!

It did everything I wanted it to do (except technically one thing, but it was close enough so it counts) and didn't do anything I didn't want it to do!

What a good story! Maybe the Star Wars property that best captures the tone of the original Star Wars! Plus a great '80s kid's adventure!

[blacktrickle]

happy birthday to my other delightfully strange little capricorn hermit genius, caleb followill.

[spark-circuit]

me at my bookstore job to the 27th young adult straight edgy fantasy romance to come in this month

[amelikos]

Friede looks excited to battle Entei in the preview.

Thinking about how he said he is always excited to find out there are strong opponents out there because it means he has room for growth and that there are very few opponents who get this reaction out of him. (Amethio being one of them. He enjoyed battling him and teaming up with him.)

[bitchfitch]

hello people who live in my phone. why did my computer take a dozen screenshots of the Minecraft video settings menu instead of the game while I was walking around taking pictures of the house i built? I'm sad :(

[inamindfarfaraway]

I love that we're getting focus on Chris Rodriguez early in the TV show, so that we have time to get invested in him before he a) betrays the camp and b) is driven so insane that only Dionysus can cure him. Knowing him beforehand will also make his relationship with Clarrisse, friendship and romance, feel more interesting.

What other cool, fun, not-heartbreaking characters will the show give more attention and depth? Silena Beauregarde? Charlie Beckendorf? Micheal Yew? Castor and Pollux? I can't wait!

[trahoalai]

everyday I bust my ass to get to music class on time and everyday I show up to a music class that looks like this

[cheddertm]

ok i get that Chip gets a tattoo to represent his friends and that's already great and makes me wanna explode- JAY N GILLIAN SHOULD GET TATTOOS LIKE THAT TOO SO THEY ALL HAVE MATCHING ONES!1!!!!!

LIKE JAY GETS THE CORAL CROWN WRAPPED IN A BANDANA AND GILLIAN GETS A BLUEJAY WITH A BANDANA ON IT LIKE DO YOU SEE MY VISION AND I JUST THINK THEYRE SO NEAT

[theboykingsmichaelsword]

outsider pov was severely underutilized in spn like it's actually criminal the more you think abt it