#they’re interesting and unique

[srirachaz]

how do voice actors feel about chris pratt? (and by extension other celebrity voice actors) like imagine spending years honing your craft and learning how to do crazy things with your voice only for major blockbuster roles to go to a guy that can’t be bothered to even pitch his voice differently or add any kind of inflection that’s different from how he usually speaks

[turtleblogatlast]

i see your post about leo being relieved that hes trans because he learned his stripes would go away and i raise you: leo, who spends his entire childhood in fear because donnie told him that he will lose his stripes when he is younger, only for them all to realize hes trans when they dont

Oh…Leo having so much value in his looks and especially his stripes because they’re what make him stand out the most, and in turn it helps solidify himself a role in the team as the “Face Man.” Sure, he absolutely thinks himself good looking with or without the stripes, but his stripes are striking and he knows it, and they mean more to him than just looks anyway. Knowing all this time that his stripes were going to fade and yet still taking on his title and still being as confident as he is - imagine he’d already come to the conclusion that his worth on the team, in his family, was always on a timer.

Then that timer goes away. And he’s left with relief and tells himself that hey, he’d have been just as cool looking without the stripes anyway! But…he’s glad to keep them. Even if his role isn’t quite just “Face Man” anymore, his stripes are a part of him.

And it’s been really scary to think that someday he’d look in the mirror and see a part of himself missing.

[fumifooms]

Hijoushoku to Gochisou / A Feast of Emergency Rations

Mayonaka no Waltz / Midnight Waltz

Nagabe

[catenary-chad]

in defense of “diva Electra”

I get the criticisms of this take on the character of being the total opposite of anything the original workshop character was or “sassy drag queen” being a tropey and superficial direction. In any other show/media I’d probably even side with them. But with real-life train context, I actually really like this take on the character and imo it’s only become MORE accurate and relevant since the 2000s. It’s actually kind of amazing how well it fits modern US rail/transit fans (and to some degree international ones) into trains like Electra since there’s no way that was actually intended. I think if there was a revival anywhere in the northeast US, locals would go nuts for this kind of take on Electra vs something more loyal to the original because it fills such a niche among talking trains and just captures the spirit of electric/transit aligned railfans vs people just into boomer trains, and it makes a great counter to Greaseball because of that. So here’s my elaboration on why I like many of their traits:

Sassy and confrontational but affectionate-

hah, this is actually a pretty accurate description of a transit group I know irl. That sphere is notoriously argumentative and outspoken in general and endlessly snarky, it’s a mix of being vindictive about being politically screwed over for years and skewing heavily towards the northeastern US (which is broadly known for being loud, confrontational, often kind of aggressive and constantly dropping one-liners). But they’re actively not gatekeepers and more evangelistic than anything, they really want you to know and care about transit and electrification politics and the group I’m in is really proactive about including people.

This take on Electra specifically reminds me of one guy I know who kind of goes over the top making fun of/reacting to things. Who is also the ELECTRIFY EVERYTHING type and also very friendly and outgoing. It’s a very appropriate personality to give an electric train that’s vaguely Amtrak-coded. You can even it give it more depth in that they might act that way to make up for otherwise poor social skills or to get points across, or that they’re a squeaky wheel because electric train problems are often so overlooked but also dismissed as whiny.

aggressively lgbt-

it’s lowkey a stereotype that electric/modern/transit oriented railfans skew VERY gay and that’s just plain true in my experience. It’s generally a very liberal, urban interest and that leads to it being a very diverse sphere overall.

over the top sparkly and showy-

it’s easy to just make Electra vain and extravagant but I think it’s way more interesting to make this a deliberate PR move the way actual train systems will. Shiny sells and makes things more attractive to the public, I mentioned it in a previous post but even wild failures like the McGinnis-era New Haven Railroad have stuck around in public view because they had bold and striking visual designs and liveries. Electric trains are seen as a pretty mundane thing by a lot of people, their full advantages aren’t that well understood by the masses, and they don’t get much media glamorization compared to steam or diesel counterparts. Being bright and striking (and perhaps even overly focused on being clean because that’s a problem transit systems face) would actually be kind of a survival strategy for Electra with how much electrification has been sidelined or even reversed in the Anglophone world (and Americas in general) where they NEED to fight for appeal and relevance

[desaturate-worlds]

i was so excited for venom 3 and was so unimpressed 😭 when it ended i was just like “…oh” and i have so many thoughts but i need to watch it again before i fully form them

[thewingedwolf]

luther: the golden child

diego: the mastermind

allison: the peace keeper

klaus: the clown / mascot

five: the rebel / truth teller

ben: the lost child

viktor: the scapegoat

is this something i think this is something

[rotting-clowns]

Look, I love unhinged doctor Evan who’s sadistic and clinical and quiet and weirdo and a scientist through and through

But I also love messy, lowlife Evan who loves to smoke with his friends and is a bit more talkative and maybe somewhat pissy, likes to pick fights sometimes, and is still a weirdo (in a different way), has some wild kinks and strange moral codes only he (and Barty probably) knows and is more lively and more carefree bc again, he’s messy

And I also like him being somewhere in between.

[whyoneartheven]

oh my gosh my little brother drew a picture of me with him and my other little brother and LOOK AT IT

IT’S BEAUTIFUL

[leonw4nter]

ehe :3 [walks onstage and nervously taps mic] y’all um… turns out I’m a lot more exhausted than I thought I am :3 and my brain needs some time to chill before I work on writing again so I really get the best ideas so it’ll be like… a few more days before I get back to regular fic postinggg :) sorry for the inconvenience huhu ik some of y’all we’re waiting aaaa :’(

[kierancaz]

Reading gokurakugai is great bc I love seeing the mc have two girls who are like his “driving force” instead of two guys and neither of them are romantic interest. So far this reminds me of jjk so I’m gonna compare it to that but I just love seeing the girls be important and not just as possible love interest !!

Like with jjk obvi Nobara is super important to Yuuji. But she (from what I’ve seen, I could be wrong) hasn’t gotten that one on one convo with Yuuji to inspire him in some big way. That’s a job for Megumi, who narratively, is more important than Nobara. Which isn’t a bad thing !!! And I’m not saying it is or anything, just that to Yuuji, Megumi has more narrative significance.

And it’s the same thing with their mentor figure. The only thing I really have to say about that is Gojo is a guy. That’s fine. He’s the mentor and he’s obviously super important and he’s a dude and that’s all well and good.

But with Alma his mentor figure is Tao and the person who’s giving him his harsh but motivational speech is Nei and I love that !!! Alma doesn’t really seem to have any guy friends that he’s close to so it feels right that the person who’s monologuing at him right now is Nei instead of Ryo who he literally just met. Nei knows him better. She knows Tao better. So this just makes sense that’s this big moment is happening with her rather then Ryo or Yoki or someone.

IDK I JUST LOVE THIS SERIES AND HAVE REALLY HIGH HOPES FOR IT AND UGHHHH

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

Is there anyone you'd actually want to be president? /gen Can be anyone, doesn't have to be a politician or someone with big money.

Ethan is online? More like ethan is in office.

[ranger-danger]

Shout out to the baldur’s gate 1 alignment descriptions. Literally the most concise and actually helpful descriptions of the alignments I’ve encountered. Even gives examples of how those alignments would be played.

[manyblinkinglights]

everyone I know in VR is or turns out to be married, gay, or gay-married, but I did just do the most powerful flirt of offering to put a specially compatible chair on myself set up to detect one specific other person so their unique avatar can properly come sit on my back. Cuz my regular chair doesn’t work right for them. Real friendship heart shaped pair necklace hours.

[quibbs126]

I’m gonna be real, I feel like Cookie Run, especially Kingdom, sometimes has this thing where the game feels less like it’s about living cookies, and more like it’s about people that happen to be living in a dessert/cookie themed world

It’s not necessarily a bad thing, and it’s not to say the parts of the story that do that are bad, but it’s a thing I notice

[amourem]

watching hsr twt say the xianzhou goes around purging peaceful planets and murdering inhabitants for following yaoshi is insane to me actually. once again. are we playing the same game?

[fierykitten2]

It’s actually kinda interesting (to me) how varied the catch rates of the Paradox Pokémon are. From highest to lowest:

Scream Tail, Iron Bundle, Brute Bonnet and Iron Hands have a catch rate of 50, the same as Bellibolt (that’s my example because I’m battling a raid Bellibolt in Scarlet rn). This makes sense, they’re the com mons of Area Zero

Great Tusk, Iron Treads, Flutter Mane, Iron Jugulis, Slither Wing, Iron Moth, Sandy Shocks and Iron Thorns have a catch rate of 30, the same as most of the Gen 4 cross-gen evos

Roaring Moon, Iron Valiant, Gouging Fire, Iron Boulder, Raging Bolt and Iron Crown (no I didn’t accidentally refer to my favourite Pokémon as Iron Valiant again, this is part of what I think is so interesting about this) have a catch rate of 10, the same as Zacian and Zamazenta

Walking Wake and Iron Leaves have a catch rate of 5, the same as Ogerpon (I would’ve used another example but currently Wake, Leaves and Ogerpon are the only Pokémon with a catch rate of 5)

Koraidon and Miraidon have a catch rate of 3, the same as most Legendaries and Mythicals