#throwing this from twitter to here

[xstea]

[starishsky]

free day / the museum

[caeslxys]

also on the topic of meaningful consequences re: character death I don't understand the take that death in fantasy requires physical permanency to matter or give a story "stakes". death is permanent regardless. Do you really think that if they get her back, they'll just go back to normal? That these characters are not forever fundamentally changed from this, that Laudna will not be fundamentally changed from this?

That Imogen's world will be less fractured, that she won't be even more of an anxious wreck now that what she stands to lose has been put into vivid clarity? That Orym won't still carry the guilt of being the chosen, that he will be less haunted by the connections he drew to his own grief with Will to Imogen's with Laudna? That Fearne won't look at Laudna and think of that coin flip, of her choice, and what that means for her and how she loves? That FCG and Ashton won't think to this and be reminded of the people they've hurt or been hurt by, and what this effort and what this grief means for how they view the hells?

That Laudna, who has been so blasé about life and if she's alive and what being alive even means for someone like her, won't wake up surrounded by family and by love and be driven to reexamine everything she's taught herself in 28 years of isolation to cope with the trauma of Whitestone? That this, maybe, will be the driving force she needed to realize that there are things she wants to live for?

It might be that I'm just biased, but I'm not sure what stakes Laudna perma-dying adds aside from just presenting the characters with the knowledge they all already have that they can, in fact, die. that what they're up against is incomprehensibly powerful and dangerous. The stakes already feel so impossibly high when you think of what and who they are preparing to face. frankly the aftermath of this combat alone, even if everything had gone perfect and everyone had gotten back up a-okay, would have set that tone.

I don't know, regardless I'll be happy to watch whatever story they choose to tell unfold as it does, but it strikes me that so many people seem to think that death only matters if there is a physical absence.

[restinpeacesensei]

bath

(hello!!! please be polite and respectful; im very sensitive and i am not comfortable with comments like 'hot/sexy' or anything objectifying 😭😭 but something like 'he's pretty' etc is welcome! thank you so much!! 🥺💖💖)

[ganondoodle]

as cool as their design is im really starting to dislike the sonau in general, aside from their stuff suddendly being everywhere and everything being about them and how cool(tm) they are now with the mystery stone turning people into dragons and the similarities between the sonau and the three dragons (naydra, eldra, farodra) its actually not an impossibility that they used to be sonaus as alot of people have been theorizing about ..but ...... idk that would very much ruin their otherwordly yet ethereal mystery to me

i probably sound like some hater whos trying to find something more to dislike about totk all the time but i promise im not!!

the three dragons being some unexplained mystery, beings that are there yet few can see them, timeless, nigh untouchable, they dont act on anything, they dont talk, something about them has always made me look at them in awe; if it turned out they were just yet another cool(tm) sonau guy that ate a stone ... :/

not a fan of that one lads, but dont worry, i will keep my thoughts to myself from now on, i dont want to ruin other peoples fun nor seem like i just hate everything ... the three dragons are just really important to me so i had to say something

[nedsseveredhead]

i think my biggest unpopular ‘problematic’ opinion is i dont mind genderbends. I dont think they’re transphobic, and I feel like they are fundamentally different from ‘just make the character trans’.

[sophfandoms53]

Omg people are already complaining about Shadow being a jerk and badly written because of a SCREENSHOT.

Maybe, again, let’s wait for context??? Y’know like the last time this happened from the trailers and people immediately put Shadow in the bad guys position for simply fighting with Sonic and come to find out Shadow was actually kind of valid for fighting with him???

They’re probably fighting again in the scene the screenshot comes from, which is literally part of Sonic and Shadow’s dynamic why do people constantly forget this, but again we don’t know the context so please for FIVE SECONDS can y’all give Shadow the benefit of the doubt and think maybe he’s reacting normally and it’s not bad writing.

[kleptoyade]

Hey casual Sora cosplayers from YouTube in the mid 2000s, it took almost 20 years but your Hot Topic pants are actually canon now

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[confettiinred]

something about these audric and grim pieces make me feel so ?? at ease ?? I CAN’T FUCKING EXPLAIN IT BUT AUUFJDHFJGJFJ,,, I LITERALLY MADENTHE FIRST ONE MY WALLPAPER AS SOON AS I SAW IT AND IT’S SO . 😢😢😢 do NAWWTTT PERCEIVE ME!!!!!!!

[foxceus]

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[doedipus]

that post that's like "having popular mutuals is so cool :)" is completely deranged. there's frankly nothing more terrifying than interacting with people that have large social media followings. that shit can be a ruin your online experience for months level hazard

[triaelf9]

Hey Geek community! What's something you really enjoy about media that you like? Or the folks who enjoy the media that you like? Or even what's a game, book, show, etc that you've been really into? 

I it when love watching a show and my heart gets warm and I'm happy I'm enjoying it. Also, I really love when an audiobook or show catches me off guard with a banger line that either makes me yell out loud like "oooh BURN" or "HECK YES" or makes me laugh my guffaw laugh before even thinking about it. 

How about you?

[b4kuch1n]

I got a uni assignment where we have to bring a couple of art piece that we really love/inspire us into class for the first week and I wanted to bring in some of your art!! I just wanted to ask if you are comfortable with me using one of your pieces for this assignment (nd also if there;s like. an art piece you're particularly proud of or would really like to have shown off!)

oh sure! I don't mind at all. and the choice is fully yours! from what's written here I don't think the assignment works as well if you aren't the one choosing haha

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

my super power

[taisorato]

i think what's ultimately pissing me off the most about challengers isn't necessarily that it doesn't understand sports but that the one thing i need in art is earnestness and the movie has a clear disdain for its subject matter but pretends it doesn't. if they'd leaned into it, if they committed to the idea that it's silly that something so 'insignificant' is destroying the trio's relationship, i think the movie would sit better with me bc at least then it's honest, even if i don't agree with it.

like look at this.

what arrogance to think that your ability as a filmmaker would hide your disdain for the subject matter. bc it didn't! these shots, the ones they're referring to here, betray exactly what he thinks about tennis!