#this feels like SUCH an oversight

[jonathanbyersphd]

How does Nancy not have a single chunky plastic bangle?

[sparrowlucero]

heres a shitty cartoon about dogs i made in like 4 days when i was still in animation classes years ago. i wanted to call it sons of bitches but they censored me

(the first song was by louie zong, I think the second was like, the soundtrack to a dog's life or something?)

[plushchimera]

what i'm learning is that everyone is way better at veilguard's cc than i am x)

[strawberry-halla]

so i started thinking about solas in the regret prison over the course of veilguard and…

i cannot imagine the mental anguish he had to endure while rook was off cleaning up messes around northern thedas. we know the entire time rook is trapped there, they are haunted by losing their companions and varric. this part made me cry the whole way through. and they were trapped there for weeks!

now imagine solas, in his countless regrets, constantly being haunted by mythal, felassan, varric, and lavellan. haunted by what he did to the dwarves and the titans.

i wish veilguard gave us glimpses of solas cracking under this immense weight throughout the course of the game. because he’s trapped there for months before he finally is able to swap places with rook.

do you think when he was first trapped, solas was spiraling because the first thing he sees was him being pulled from the fade over thousands of years ago? was he met with varric’s shocked expression when solas stabbed him? or was it the sorrowful eyes of his vhenan that night in crestwood?

and then solas has to pull himself together in a matter of minutes because he sees his opportunity to reach out to rook. to try to plant the seed that rook needs him. it’s the only way so he can see his plan through. to get out of the very prison he made.

the same prison that is now taunting him every second. the one cage he can’t get out of without moving past his regrets or tricking someone into letting him out. and we know he can’t accomplish the former.

[barnabyboppins]

Hopefully lukewarm take (i haven’t checked)

I recently finished reading the Heroes Of Olympus series (having read pjo immediately prior) and I think it’s pretty shitty that the worth of all of our good guy characters are, to a notable degree, measured by their ability to find and engage in romantic relationships and are then greatly defined by those relationships. (Disclaimer; I don’t think I’m in a justified position to discuss lots of the racial criticisms for HoO but I do agree with a lot of em and that aspect does factor into this topic)

7+ important recurring characters is quite a lot of people to balance, even in a five book series and all of the non-pjo characters suffered immensely for it. But one character arc I anticipated over and over again that never ended up happening was any one character finding fulfillment from the non-romantic relationships around them by de-prioritizing the idea of a perfect someone in favour of accepting the support of their friends/comrades/campers/family/etc. (Second disclaimer: I don’t expect a novel saga from 2010 to have characters declaring their orientations (or lack thereof) aloud but the idea of a character learning to define themself by or through something outside of romance isn’t a new one)

I think Percy and Annabeth are very cute and work well as a couple (are they the only white couple?) and I don’t really see any chemistry between Piper and Jason (I feel like they’re on very different paths from each other and Piper stagnates greatly in favour of supporting jasons development) but I think literally every other Good Guy character had the potential to not need romance in their arcs. Frank could have been raised to praetor by consensus and recognized by his peers and grandma, actively validating his growth rather than him achieving great feats and no one noticing or really caring except for Hazel. Hazel could’ve been shown learning about the modern day with Frank and Nico during downtime and reconciling her identity and trauma with the diversity of today while discovering a new freedom in acceptance (from the Seven) of who she is from back then and who she may yet want to be (and also not dated a 16 y/o at 13).

Leo, Reyna and Nico were the main ones I was thinking would forgo the need for a partner at least as a necessity for their growth/healing as all three have severe familial trauma, are distanced from other demigods socially somehow, and all were explicitly ousted from conventional romance in-writing.

Initially with Leo I had hoped he would confront his struggle being the “seventh wheel” by expressing how he was feeling overlooked as a friend (and as the ONLY shipwright) in favour of everyone’s romantic interests, which would lead into further emotional vulnerability in the party but, that never happened save for a few stoically non-communicative gestures of support to Frank and otherwise weird hang-ups on Hazel before he fucked off to Calypso, letting his friends think him dead for weeks. Leo lacked connection and felt inferior and less important than the rest of the Seven and the narrative validated that by only fulfilling him through an a Rapunzel-like hot babe trapped on an island who is physically dependent on his emotional dependence on her. That’s not a recipe for healthy relationship! I related to Leo initially as an aromantic person with 9 siblings, half of whom are already coupled so it was very disappointing when I realized by the third book that RR just didn’t take what was to me the most obvious arc for a character who is vitally important to a team but least noticed. Also the Hazel-Frank-Leo pseudo-love shape didn’t need to happen, at least in the way it did, and I think the Leo-Hazel-Sammy weird love thing was stupid.

I think Nico and Will are a very cute couple and I’m looking forward to reading their book when I come around to it but I felt unsatisfied that the thing that got Nico to stay at camp after 5 books was a guy who had little significant presence until the last book and not like, any of the other deeply important connections he made during his journeys? Nico’s been talking about never returning to either camp for a while and none of the Seven or Reyna (I think) thought to check in with him? I get that Will is supposed to be like the first person to insistently want Nico around but if Will really is the first then that’s kinda fucked up given the whole like, eight books worth of people he’s met. It’s a bit fucked up that after years of Nico’s presence, seemingly the first connection to anchor him down is an unspoken suggestion of a romance

Reyna’s character journey confuses me because I don’t if I missed or forgot it but I don’t remember her having a conclusion to her internal struggles. Aphrodite telling her she’s doomed to singledom gets brought up again and again and it’s mostly just to make you feel bad for her. She doesn’t tell anyone else. She doesn’t seek fulfillment in the platonic or familial connections she has. They visit her house, trauma dump about her abuse AND fakeout her sisters + the hunters + the amazons deaths just to have Reyna be even more hurt. Reyna and Nico come to understand each other while they’re travelling but by the conclusion of the series she’s just gone back to her isolating and stressful role as the praetor, but now with more work to do! Aphrodite’s words are never explained and their veracity is never tested and all it serves is to give Reyna more misery porn.

I guess what I’m saying is I think the story would have been better if The Seven & Co had a little more connection with each other and not just with their respective partners and if we could have seen some internal growth come from that.

[fractualized]

Who do I speak to for a live action Batman scene in which Wayne Manor is infiltrated while Alfred is cooking dinner, and he fights the intruders off using only kitchen equipment? And not so much with knives– that's no fun– but he captures an attacker's knife with a pair of tongs. He uses a frying pan as a bullet shield. He smashes a saucepan of roux in an intruder's face and clangs the back of another's skull with cast iron. He pins a guy against the fridge with a rolling pin to the throat. He breaks someone's hand with a meat tenderizer. People are dodging ramekins left and right. By the end, the last attacker is cowering before Alfred, who raises a ladle over his head and demands to know who these bastards work for.

Matt Reeves, anyone, are you out there?!

[qsmp-yaoi-island]

Okay admins giving Foolish the stuff to make an elytra but taking it back you cant use it a day later smh

[thesixthchaosgod]

When you realize the Kroot know very well how to make Warp Engine's, they just won't tell the T'au because who know's why ;D

[wildtalon8]

Weird question: Would a male mosquito dressing up like a vampire be considered drag?

Like we all know pregnant female mosquitoes are the only ones that bite and draw blood. That would make them akin to vampires. While vampires are fictional, let’s say an anthropomorphized mosquito saw how vampires are treated and vibed with that. And while he himself does not suck blood, he knows his species are labeled as such.

What I wanna hear opinions on is: Is Creepie’s dad Vinnie a drag queen, or is he just into vampires? Likely the latter, but I wanted an excuse to tall about him. Either way I love him and his wife

love these cunty bugs

[hexjulia]

caught myself thinking Gaskell's North & South was 'too big' to read on my ereader(??). what did i mean by this.

[thedragonagelesbian]

vivienne neither disapproving nor approving of letting celene die but both blackwall & sera taking great disapproval hits................ ok class traitors!!

[etchif]

Yk this whole comment thread thing is a fine feature or whatever but I really wish when you clicked on a comment in your notifs that is part of a thread now tumblr would open the actual thread instead of just opening the comment section. It's kind of annyoing to have to look through every comment

[whisperofthewaves]

today I overslept, the dog whom I'm dogsitting decided today of all days to take twice the time on the morning walk, I forgot my meds, forgot to make coffee, forgot my phone, almost forgot to feed the dog, took my kindle sleeve to work without the kindle inside, was late to work, spilled my insta coffee powder on the office kitchen floor, and missed my tram stop on the way home.

[coockie8]

Why can Roy not transmute the water that gets onto his gloves into Oxygen and Hydrogen gas? Two substances that are highly flammable? Does his Alchemy just not work like that, because it sure sounds like that's how it's supposed to work; like his flame alchemy literally works by him sky rocketing the oxygen in the air, so why can he not transmute water into Hydrogen and Oxygen? :/

I am aware that the reason the water is his "weakness" is because it gets his gloves wet, and you can't make a spark with wet gloves, but Ed is literally shown evaporating water off his clothes using Alchemy at one point, so it makes no sense that Roy wouldn't be able to do the exact same thing and just turn the water on his gloves into Hydrogen and Oxygen, which he could then ignite, since he gloves would then be dry.

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[shadowkat2000]

Fall out boy’s modern “We didn’t start the fire” is the best thing I’ve heard all month. So many people have tried to update the song and they did perfectly, hitting all the high notes of 1989-2023. Perfect remake no notes

[twopenguinsinabox]

Quietly thinking about how Wizarding Britain is a straight-up dystopia tn. Like, even in the "good" years prior to Voldemort's resurrection, it would be such a nightmarish and fucked-up place to actually live that I feel like every time I read a fanfic where the characters conclude "hey, maybe we should just move back to the Muggle world which has neat things like rule of law and sexual consent" I feel like I want to applaud.