#to hammer that home

[basilibino]

Re reading A Doll's House and I have the same opinion I had when I first saw it performed my junior yr of high school—it's wild but not surprising that the class element is overlooked in comparison to the sexism narrative

[lazylittledragon]

welcome to my crack au where everything was fine and nothing bad ever happened to anyone

[cairhienin]

rio hates evanora in a way that is so specific to hating a mother-in-law

[cor-lapis]

If I had a nickel for every time a father in genshin was (suspected to be) involved in child human experimentation

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Candace redesign: eternal-moss (tumblr)

Dehya redesign: ohhnorr (tumblr)

Cyno, Tighnari, and Collei: mine :)

Quest summary masterpost (needs updating)

[aphel1on]

AURGH auwarghh the autistic parental trauma... the epi was wacky hijinks then dropped this on us out of nowhere... (sobs) laios... laiiiiooooos

[bluesnailsstuff]

the moment i saw her i knew i needed to draw her :] you made her look adorable honestly she looks so chipper

Role swapped Sally belongs to: @sketchquill

[lioniheart]

Finished IWTV and wanted to say, yet again: I STAND WITH MY CANCELLED WIFE

[tenowls]

SYSTEM COLLAPSE!!!!!!!

[lightnersdream-archive]

i've been thinking about exactly why people portraying one of the other crew members successfully killing Jimmy as a "for what you did to Anya" kind of thing rubs me the wrong way a bit and it's because like..... this is just another form of taking agency away from Anya, in a way. it's kind of framing her as some meek, shivery woman-thing who's entirely at the mercy of the men around her, either to hurt her or save her.

(i understand these are mostly for wish fulfillment on the audience's behalf because everyone would like to see Jimmy pay for his crimes. whether or not this is the intention of the person writing it isn't really relevant, characterization happens with or without intent. i feel like it misses the point by portraying it as an 'ideal ending'.)

because... Anya is a capable person. she takes things into her own hands when she can. it was partially(?) her idea to get into the cargo,

(before he interrupts her.. remember when she interrupted Curly in the dead pixel segment?)

it was her idea to get the code scanner from the cockpit,

it was her idea to get the medication from behind the foam.

(the chance to do these things herself is not given to her.)

she'd been keeping Curly alive for months in a critical state somehow, her psych evaluations at the start are only so useless because Jimmy refuses to take it/her seriously and Curly is obviously biased when he puts it into his own hands. he's known him a long time, like he said. "I'll just put good for that one."

there's not a lot of material to work with because of how the game is framed, but it's there. we are working with two very biased perspectives and neither one lends Anya what she deserves

there's significant changes in how she speaks post- and pre- crash, and depending on who she happens to be talking to. i recommend re-reading her dialogue, because the difference is drastic

she acts the way she does around Jimmy because he has tangibly done horrible things to her, is actively hostile, and physically could not escape him by any means. she can't take away Curly's agency herself, in my eyes. you have to remember that Especially in the post-crash segments of the game, it's entirely from Jimmy's POV, and he obviously does not (and has never) thought very highly of her or treated her with a shred of respect

i've seen a general idea that she can't bear to hurt other people for any reason, but that doesn't really track to me. this is the real point of the post by the way

it seems based on the parts where she says she struggles to give Curly medication. "It just hurts him so much, I can't stand the noise." "It makes me nauseous."

it's not really the same thing as, say, hurting someone in self defense

this sounds like she did want the gun itself. this never felt worded like someone who would refuse to, at very least, threaten Jimmy with a gun, with violence. if she had been given the agency to make that decision on her own. she wasn't though

she still tries to reclaim some of it even as she's denied it

by the end she's still trying to keep that gun out of his hands

i think some people overly soften her, for similar reasons the game itself is trying to comment on. she's not a tender victim who couldn't cause pain to another out of the softness of her soul, she's a person who's had every last bit of agency ripped from her repeatedly until she couldn't take it anymore. that's the point. that's why framing her that way, "needing" someone to save her, is odd to me

she didn't need Curly to save her, she needed him to take responsibility

she didn't want to escalate things, but she's not an idiot. self defense was absolutely on her mind

but who knows im just saying shit *smiles serenely*

[aingeal98]

One of the funniest aspects of early stephcass is that so much of their interaction and development happened when they were both in masks so you could have a scene where they were bearing their souls to each other or discovering that maybe they got on better than they had expected and then their faces are just.

Feast your eyes on the romance before you, the sheer amount of love in their gazes. Tis majestic.

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

TF One Sentinel Prime

[ancientstone]

Do you hate ai? Are you a British citizen or UK resident? Then here's a nice petition for you!

Regulate Generative AI Imagery

Description: We think Generative AI for commercial use like advertising must be banned and companies must disclose using AI and list the prompts used. We think it must be made illegal to access AI "nudify" apps and websites, and AI generated imagery must require a watermark disclosing that it is AI generated.

Deadline: 13th July 2025

At 10,000 signatures, government will respond to this petition

At 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament.

[thelittleoddling]

Since Woe’s Hollow I can’t stop thinking about how Lumon isn’t just using severance as a way to keep information confidential. It’s also a fail safe.

“It will be as if you Irving B. never even existed nor drew a single breath upon this earth.”

These people have no existence outside of Lumon, if they start to cause problems they can be killed without consequence. No one will miss them outside of Lumon walls. There will be no body. Their outie can be told whatever is needed for them to simply move on with their life.

It’s literally the perfect crime. This is the final evolution of killing whistleblowers.

[expelliarmus-percabeth]

I don't care that deadpool and wolverine isn't the next citizen kane because it isn't trying to be. deadpool and wolverine is a movie that is purely wholeheartedly and unabashedly 100% fanservice that literally only got made because hugh jackman thought "I really want to see these two interact" and ryan reynolds said aw hell yes. the plot is secondary; if you go into the movie focusing on story beats and plot holes and camera angles you're not going to enjoy it very much - this was a movie made purely by fans for fans (and i love that hugh jackman and ryan reynolds clearly had as much fun making it as people did watching it!). in an mcu where every show and movie and plotline has to be tied up in some ridiculously epic "saving the world" grand scheme with stakes that they keep trying to make higher and higher each time it is so REFRESHING to see a movie that doesn't bother with all that. deadpool and wolverine came here to HAVE FUN. i'm so glad this movie got made

[cybertron-after-dark]

I'm thinking too many thoughts about Rescue Bots once again. Namely, about how humans in that show are quite literally funky little alien symbiotes to the bots in a way that is simultaneously kinda sweet and very, very weird.

Cybertronian cabs and cockpits have working controls. You can step on the gas and drive a bot around without them having to perform the action theirself. It works in their altmode, of course, we've seen bits and pieces of this in other shows, especially Prime ("I will handle the driving, agent Fowler," implying Fowler could totally drive op if he allowed it, but he's politely asking him not to), but with Rescue Bots we see it also seems to work in robot mode. We get multiple shots on multiple occasions of the Burnses in their bots' cockpits, hands on the controls while their bots handle the situation outside. By all means it seems like they're piloting them Ratatouille style.

What is a human to a transformer but a squishy, alien minicon with cordyceps tendencies?

[tough-n-dumb]

the way rosamund pike says siuan’s name in the audiobooks when reading as moiraine makes me insane in the best way possible. she says it with so much care and gentle inflection and i am gnawing on my arm over it. especially since right at siuan’s introduction in the great hunt, moiraine makes a point of noting how no one calls her or thinks of her as siuan sanche anymore, only the amyrlin seat. and then for the rest of their time together moiraine proceeds to say siuan’s name every other sentence like she is trying to remind siuan that she is so much more than the position that threatens to destroy her, that through it all moiraine will always remember her as who she was and is