#two ends of the fucking spectrum

[cult-of-the-eye]

ok listen I'm used to my podcast men being pathetic and incapable of making decisions arthur lester therefore is fucking WHIPLASH

[consultingfujoshi]

inconsolable over irving in this episode. no nuance here, irving is straight up suicidal in this episode. essentially placing him in the same circumstances in which mark chose to become severed - suffering unimaginable heartbreak and seeing switching his brain off as the only viable option for coping with it - and giving him that same choice at surface level to be relieved of it - except it's NOT the same at all, because innies don't get to compartmentalise, they ARE the compartmentalisation, if they choose to switch themselves off, they DIE. the illusion of choice here. irving can either suffer mindless torture of monotony every day with the knowledge that the man he loves is dead and never coming back, or he can fucking DIE. and he genuinely sees that as a viable option. as his only way out of this pain. because even if he did make it out, if he somehow against all odds gained his freedom in the outside world, he'd still have nothing. burt would not be waiting for him.

"I should be happy he's happy" and the way he doesn't even feel entitled to his grief?? like he has no right to be feeling the pain he's feeling right now? innie indoctrination goes so hard he's incapable of seeing that the very fact he's grieving innie burt, a hypothetical life they could have had together, is proof that he's just as real as his outie counterpart! he has just as much right to that life as anyone! like, NO, irv! you have been wronged, you have been so deeply wronged, they made you capable of feeling these things and forming this relationship and falling in love and then systematically removed every tool you could have had to pursue it, and then effectively handed you a length of rope and made you feel like the only empowerment you can find is in the act of hanging yourself with it.

"if he's gone and I'm gone, then somehow, we'll be together" broke me because he really has been so beaten down by this point at the hopelessness of it all, realising that there is no scenario in which he can be with the man he loves, that his only hope at finding any triumph or meaning in this is to die along with burt. at least in chasing him into oblivion, he will have made the one choice he could have to follow his heart. and that as a queer-centric narrative specifically is actually devastating.

SUCH an insane and heavy thing to come straight out of the gate with in the season premier. immediately cementing irving as one of the most masterfully complex characters I've ever seen - i can only hope his arc this season is in finding strength in the act of defiance at last and making good on his promise to burn lumon to the ground for what they've put him through. to carry that grief and channel it into bringing the system that has wronged you down. I believe in the power of queer rage and vengeance!!!!

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

something something jay being indifferent to a father being unable to see his daughter because of his work obligation vs gillion being extremely bothered by it

[wawataka]

made these edits for the age swap au. dies

[velvetwyrme]

Importante Lore question about the crotch rust comic.

We know Megs had it and I wanna say he was probably the one that spread it to the Petrol pump too infecting poor prowl and the twins

BUT…………,,….. how did Megatron basically get the robo clap/rhea/ lower herp.

Is he the true patient zero or are they still out there.

i'll answer that in a second but hey. i think we should give Megatron the benefit of the doubt here. there are PLENTY other Decepticons (and Autobots, probably) that have STIs...

that being said, Megatron giving a fuel pump an STI is an INCREDIBLY funny image because in many continuities he doesn't turn into something that would fuel up at a gas station, which means one of the following presumably happened:

a) he goes and fuels in bot mode. inherently hilarious and terrifying.

b) a fucking tank rolls up to a petrol station.

c) a jet/stealth bomber rolls up to a petrol station?????

d) gun.

anyway. that aside, ive reviewed the available data and i think patient zero was Shockwave.

i reckon he was keeping a strain of it for testing and it got loose one day when Frenzy/Rumble were poking around his lab and they knocked something over.

i mean... either that or.....

................................ i meant to write injection oh ymgod

[sieglinde-freud]

ok i think im done i think ive finally done it. i have completed the awakening ship chart with the second gen. except for nah sorry nah. yes i do love rarepair hell thanks for asking im never leaving

[no1ryomafan]

Randomly thinking about how the Getter team is obviously human, they are *not* normal but they are still humans who can die, and we see in most series at least one cast member is always killed off-

But sometimes in my mind I deny that they can actually die. Like, the amount of shit Ryoma and Hayato have survived is fucking insane, especially when you consider the only canon they die is the manga timeline which even THEN saids a lot.

Ryoma was absorbed into the Getter which is still a death but also because of how emperor is he’s most DEFINITELY been cloned by now even if we don’t see him, and Hayato only really got confirmed dead in arc anime, but who’s to say now that he’s been absorbed into the Getter too now technically the same wouldn’t happen to him? And this also doesn’t even count it happened for Musashi even if it’s the most fucked up.

But putting aside the insanity of the manga timeline for a second, most of Ryomas fate don’t even end up with him dead even if you could argue hes in purgatory in a sense, the arma ending is more vague but he likely lived but new? As painful as it is he is still ALIVE and kicking ass even if we only see it for a frame.

At this point the Getter Team is immortal but not in the traditional sense, just immortal in “the narrative will keep me alive in various different ways and my god even if I suffer I’ll make use out of it” way.

[otgfmybeloved]

so. episode 7 huh.

[sodaf]

being mentally ill is so cool

[vigilskept]

23 for dinara AND tavian? 👀

23. would rook and inquisitor be on good terms? would they like or not be able to stand each other? secret third thing?

this is vigilskept.tumblr.com so you know its always going to be some secret third option 👍

inquisitor lavellan is pretty much a mythical figure to tavian when they meet. she's done so much is the thing, not only for the dalish but also for city elves in the south and the enslaved in tevinter. she never claimed the title of andraste's herald, but it's hard to see her as anything else.

abra likes most of what she's heard about tavian from harding and varric, so she doesn't really hold that attitude against him. he seems like a sweet kid, and she genuinely feels bad that this has all fallen on his head because she couldn't find a way to talk solas out of this in the last decade.

so it's distant, but overall positive for the early part of their relationship. they do get closer eventually, but it takes a few months to get to that point.

the catalyst is really when abra kind of collapses into the chair across from tavian in one of their later meetings, and it finally clicks for him that yes, she did do all those things, but she's also just a person. she's picked back up the mantle of inquisitor and she's fighting, but she's so tired. this is wearing on her badly.

meanwhile in the other worldstate.... wildly different vibes going on.

inquisitor trevelyan is dinara's contractor, so it's a professional relationship by default. she's expects him to be cold at best, so she's actually pretty thrown off when he bothers to be friendly during their meetings. doesn't know what to make of it since harding and varric clearly don't like him.

and sander... doesn't dislike dinara, exactly. he might even have liked her under different circumstances. he doesn't hold varric's death against her (he holds it against varric) and he doesn't really have any complaints about how she's managing things in his place.

what he does hold against her is her connection to solas. the fact that he's bothered to talk to her or cooperate with her at all is maddening to him. this becomes increasingly obvious to dinara as the months wear on and the polite facade starts to slip away.

it's confusing to her at first because she can't make sense of his reactions. then the ex-situationship angle of it all finally clicks and she's straight up catatonic for a day. oscillating wildly between shock/horror/rage/despair. these are the worst kinds of contracts and that's without the world literally falling apart.

veilguard ask game

[crimeronan]

watching alfie become catastrophically enamored with lunter over the course of thanks to them was so fucking funny i LOVE showing toh to new people. everyone gets something slightly different out of it. and it is Literally Always Hilarious.

[isabelleadjani]

hate to break it to yall but a lot of kids who were designated as gifted in like elementary school in fact did absolutely not fit easily into the school system. in fact, that difficulty with the system is often the very reason they get the label gifted in the first place.

[adraveins]

champing at the bit to go full mind flayer in BG3 because the problem with D&D-esque non-human races is that they aren't non-human enough. this goes for D&D and Pathfinder and Pillars of Eternity and TES etc (with a few notable exceptions). "just a person but with different features/proportions" fuck off and let me play a squid face. let me play a cloud of sentient light or some shit. my god

[moe-broey]

The Amy comparison is actually gonna drive me sicko insane like. At First I was ABSOLUTELY imagining Ratatoskr like movie Sonic spying on Tom and Maddie and eventually (after many antics) getting forcefully adopted. But the Amy comparison is actually driving me SOOOOOOO INSANE BEYOND any superficial level bc of Classic Amy's entire fucking backstory. Idk I haven't been deeply autistic about the Sonic series in a hot minute but she literally foretold her meeting with Sonic, her idol, and first thing she does is hug him and come on WAY too strong (Sonic CD) and LITERALLY. OPENING CUTSCENE. LITERALLY WHAT RATATOSKR DOES. TO ALFONSE

Which like to be super fucking clear I'm insane about it in an aromantic way where like I'm p sure a part pf Amy's lore is she has severeee abandonment issues which is why she dreams of true love and why she comes on SO strong w Sonic who's both an idol and a love interest but if you're Insane you could read it as the romanticization of romance itself anf Sonic is just the face she puts to it. Because she does geniuenly look up to and respect him.

And like the comparison IS very loose and there is so much more going on here w Ratatoskr and with Alfonse, together and separately. I'm just trying to parse out the dynamic while also still avoiding a romance here bc I'm not interested in that angle. Mostly cause I can't really see Alfonse ever returning any romantic feelings Ratatoskr could have, and also I am absolutely fascinated more by the angle that Alfonse is an idol to her that may Look like a crush. Also I just stilll think yhe mistranslation was so fucking funny I am still so diehard about the possibility of them ultimately being siblings. Man who cannot stop collecting sisters. Sisters Georg

[foxxsong]

Man, I get wanting to shit on homeschooling conservatives about trying to brainwash their kids or whatever and I'm sure that happens in some cases, but this pervasive idea that homeschooling is always a red flag HAS to go.

You know what my family did to try and ensure I was only exposed to the "right" topics in the "right" way? Send me to private school. You know what other families with conservative or religious agendas did to ensure their kids would only experience what they approved of at school? Sent them to a fucking private school. Even the families that did not have NEARLY enough money to properly justify private education did it because of how much they wanted to ensure their kid was only exposed to their values.

You know what caused my parents to finally start considering homeschooling for me and my brother? When our disabilities made attending an actual school too difficult or even impossible. The other cases of people I've known or met who were either homeschooled or homeschooling their kid(s) were pretty much exclusively cases where it was detrimental to the CHILD to be attending in-person schooling.

Conservatives have options to continue sending their kids to school while still teaching them only what they want. Disabled kids and their families? Often homeschooling is the only way to keep their kid in school while also valuing their health.

If I had kids I'd sure as hell prefer to homeschool. I couldn't finish my high school diploma because I know firsthand how little our education system gives a shit about the health, well-being, and reasonable milestones of its students (and it's only gotten worse since I dropped out). You can give a child a good education on their terms while also letting them have experiences for growth and meeting a wide variety of people without having to rely completely on a system that does not care about them. And the idea that people would be suspicious of me? Just for not wanting to subject my kids to the hell I and other people like me have gone through? Pisses me off.

[amplexadversary]

I don't know how effective it would be for anyone else, but I think it's helpful to think of genre-requisite pacifists (you know, your Stevens, your Aangs, even your Doctors Who) as characters that, in-universe, just wouldn't be able to handle that kind of violence psychologically without becoming incapable of addressing the threat at all.

Hell, some shows do provide some amount of explanation along those lines. Pretty sure Avatar does (Aang is from a culture of pacifists, fucking with that would at least set off a trauma arc), and any part of Doctor Who where the Time War is relevant definitely has it as subtext.

This requires some amount of engaging in good faith, of course, but tying the pacifism thing into the idea that exists in any fiction where 'there are some things that a character is capable of and there are other things that they are definitely not capable of' can reduce that annoyance to a manageable degree.

i dont agree with a lot of the posturing against people who only watch kid's cartoons because it feels mean-spirited. like if you want to do that it's cool and i don't think you're committing some moral or intellectual sin--but it is very silly when people who do this forget that they're watching cartoons for children, not in a 'you can't expect children's media to be good' way or even a 'the politics of children's media aren't worth analyzing way' but in a 'you have to be realistic about genre expectations' way. because that's how you end up with arguments over whether steven universe should have killed people or not