#unprecedented shit

[wttnblog]

The 10 Best Music Albums of 2024

Welcome to the very first edition of our Best of the Year series! Over the past couple of years, the whole team has come together in an altogether unwieldy google doc to rate our favorite media consumption over the course of the past year and then share it with you all. This year, we’re introducing a new category—music! There’s so many people on our staff who are deeply passionate about the…

[egberts]

all I can see is bad coming out of this like he didn't die so that's it man he's a living martyr for the far right now. things are gonna get scarier than ever??

[tanaleth]

oh

[mooncurses]

this seems like the perfect time to let the americans know that mangione means "big eater" in italian, and you see that's actually perfect because luigi is with all probability going to gorge on so much pussy & dick for the rest of his life unless they decide to suicide him in prison that is

[numbuh424]

people have pointed this out before but I love how the death note jdrama highlights how needlessly cruel L is capable of being..... calling Light (and the other Kira suspects) early in the investigation to falsely accuse him of being Kira just to see how he'd react, taunting Light relentlessly while he was imprisoned and interrogated, and of course the mock execution. all while knowing no one can really stop him. the jdrama really said "btw don't forget this guy's an ASSHOLE"

[untimelyambition]

something was in the air in that brisbane hotel room bc ur telling me we got the today show interview, the junkee interview, and the incoherent video all filmed in front of that same stupid lounge… unprecedented levels of chaos coming from a location that isn’t the phouse

[goodluckbabeheffron]

sometimes a man must sit in the fujo cuck chair

[emberwritesinsight]

Episode of RGU where Anthy slips Nanami shrooms and Nanami straight up never notices she's on drugs because

Nanami doesn't know what shrooms are

Nothing she's seeing is that much weirder than the contents of a typical Nanami episode

[freshbeeth]

god the 14 year olds on twitter are calling me racist against white people. i love being liberal with the mute button

[moe-broey]

I think they're really cute as a platonic possibly even found family pairing, but. A Reminder

[us-the-voices-and-more-voices-2]

"you know why doomsday cults are always wrong? because the world keeps turning, and things get better. giant world ending disasters don't happen and people don't want it to happen, they work diligently everyday and every hour to make sure it doesn't. the world won't burn to ashes, and even if it does saplings and flowers will bloom from them. the world keeps spinning, and day turns to night. if billions of years can't destroy us all then a couple stress filled decades won't either. we will all make it through to the next generation and life, wether our memories or friends or grandkids do. life won't end, the doom isn't real. and well either way wars, famines, hurt and pain, we all get through it eventually. it's, it will be okay. maybe we die before it is okay but it will be okay soon. at least for our friends, our families, our children and lovers, our animals or our trees. it will be okay, it always is." -pop

[palfriendpatine66]

Personal rant below the cut in the hopes I can turn off my brain and get some sleep if I get it out

I can’t believe I just walked into a scheduled contract renewal meeting with 30 other professionals only to be told there are no longer any contracts in existence. The surprise announcement: if you were employees you would no longer be employed. But you’re not losing your jobs per se. You can still get paid for doing the work you do, just no longer from this organization. You’re not employees, you’re independent contractors. So go contact with someone else. 🙃

[elvhendis]

When I see people criticise Baldur's Gate 3 for not having enough face options and the like it really makes me wonder if they've ever played any other game ever. All it takes is to play, say, Dragon Age 2 with it's 3 total assets that keep repeating a bajillion times on every map for anyone to truly appreciate how much BG3 really gave us. How much sheer content, models, assets, voice work, options. It's insane

[benevolenterrancy]

What are your thoughts on Shen Jiu?

Honestly, I don't have a ton of thoughts on him as a whole (っ- ‸ - ς)... Maybe it's because he essentially dies off-screen before the story starts? or maybe just 'cause he's genetically engineered to be off-putting ahahaha

I like him as a function of the plot, and he certainly adds to the concept of real people being more complex and messy than a two-dimensional character on paper. Airplane ultimately made him a flat villain and he filled a specific role in PIDW, but as long as Shen Yuan treats him like a flat character while existing in that world he really fails to understand the nuance that goes in to making someone the way they are. It highlights just how much Shen Yuan treats himself like a passive observer and the other people around him as characters without agency. His tendency to do so really does cause him problems through the series, a not understanding or sympathizing with Shen Jiu's past is definitely a part of that.

Ultimately, as he is, Shen Jiu's a rather reprehensible character, but the more you read the more you understand why he is the way he is. You understand why he felt so insecure, you can see why he didn't get along with Liu Qingge, and why he had a complicated relationship with Yue Qingyue, and what might have made him feel more comfortable in a brothel than on the mountain, and why he was stuck in his cultivation while Shen Yuan was able to move past it fairly easily... it's fun to dig at little clues like that in a book to try to flesh out a side character. And the Shen Jiu extra was good for that too, it gave a lot more depth!

Which is all a very long winded way to say: I think he's a vital character to the plot of SVSSS and really neatly summarizes some of the book's main themes, but also I don't find him all that interesting on a fandomy level (ᵕ—ᴗ—) ...Though I will fuck around with the occasional Shen Bro or disciple!Yuan fic because it can be fun to see how a good writer goes around giving Shen Jiu a chance at redemption / a better life!

[13eyond13]

why does it feel like nobody really cares that the American government is just casually talking about aliens existing rn

[linda-rose]

HOLY SHIT THAT SPEECH IM FUCKING CRYING