#very old movies i used to think about them

[r-2-peepoo]

The entirety of Dracula by Bram Stoker is really just:

Dr Seward: I wish we could figure out what’s wrong with Lucy.

Van Helsing: I figured it out immediately but I’m just going to let you solve it yourselves.

Dr Seward: Or you could just tell us.

Van Helsing: Friend John :( I have known you for one thousand years and you have been one of my very good friends and best students :( Do you not trust me? Why do you not trust me, friend John? Have I ever given you a reason to doubt me? Do you not think I have a good reason for withholding vital information? :(:(:(:( Have faith in me, your very old and good friend.

Dr Seward: You’re right :(

Lucy: I love everyone so much and I’m going to tell them every day 🥰💕 also legalise polyamory wtf

Renfield: look at all my pets that I’m definitely not eating 🪰🪰🪰🪰

Dr Seward: What happened to all the birds I gave you?

Renfield, with a mouth full of a feathers: I have no idea.

Arthur: I think… I miss my wife… also how the fuck didn’t we realise Dracula’s house was right next door?

Quincey: I keep saying I’m not that smart but I’m the only one to immediately point out that something was actively taking Lucy’s blood. Brb need to go shoot a giant bat with a gun.

Mina: I am the only person keeping this shit show together. We literally would not have made it without me and no one who adapts my character seems to get that. Women are the heart of this story. I am the glue that binds this group together. I just want ONE MOVIE that understands that and values my intelligence, which is at the forefront of my character.

Renfield: I have an entire character arc but don’t expect any adaptations to show it.

Quincey: ok but what if… we shot Dracula with a gun??? Also stop fucking cutting me from all the adaptations.

Jonathan: has seen indescribable horrors, is a shell of his former self, will literally never be what he was before going to Transylvania

Dracula: oh Jonathan! 🥰🥰🧛🏻🧛🏻🥰🩸🩸🥰🥰

BONUS: everyone is constantly holding hands, especially all of the men, and talking about how they’re going to be best friends forever. The male friendships in this book are shockingly pure and the women are incredible. The Crew of Light are actually the only found family ever, I think.

[zepskies]

(Not a fanfic request) Imagine spoiling Ben and/or kissing him stupid. Just getting through all the machismo stuff and becoming his safe space. Doing mundane tasks but they never feel mundane because you’re with your best friend. Imagine him growing as a person. Imagine him looking at you with nothing but adoration. Jensen Ackles has so much to atone for— How dare he be so talented. 😭💕

Ahhh you're giving me the warm fuzzies, anon! 🥰 I definitely think this would be the vibe between SB/Ben and the reader in my series Break Me Down, and I've tried to give that sense of them being each other's safe space in many of the sequel stories.

In that story-verse, Ben's the one who makes you feel safe, who gives you the support you need so you don't have to be so strong all the time. While you're the one who makes him feel like there's someone in the world who understands him, accepts him for who he is, but also takes him to task when he needs it.

More domestic headcanons with Ben:

(Whoops, my hand slipped. 😂💚)

You and Ben watch old movies together and argue about the plot, with your modern, feminist view vs. his "traditionalist" view. But he also gives you behind the scenes info whenever he actually knows the actors, directors, etc. -- like the best movie commentary ever.

Ben won't easily admit it, but one of his favorite things is just chilling on the couch with you, flipping through channels, drinking a glass of whiskey or snacking on junk. You using him as a body pillow, basically. Or him with his head in your lap while you scratch his back or run your fingers through his hair. You like playing with his hair, the soft strands.

You also like his hands, long fingers and wide palms. But he likes the gentleness of your hands.

Ben likes taking you out to dinner, but he also likes going grocery shopping with you because he likes picking out new things to try (even as he makes fun of all the "oatmilk this" and "quinoa that").

Late at night, if either of you can't sleep (or after a few rounds of keeping each other up), Ben starts to open up.

He tells you about his life before Compound V, about his mother, about his father, about the world he grew up in, and sometimes, very rarely, about that Russian lab.

Those are the times that you have to hide how much your heart breaks, because you don't want him to instinctively close back up, not wanting to be pitied or seen as less of a man for being honest about what he went through.

He also admits to things he did when he was the "leader" of Payback -- his "glory days." What he doesn't admit, but you can tell just by his tone and demeanor, is that he's less proud and yearning those days than he used to be.

Actually, he wouldn't go back to those days even if he could.

Because now, he has you. He has a real family. That's the main thing that's real to him now.

AN: Again, didn't mean for this to become a mini HC, but there ya go! loll 💚

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[yey56]

Hihi! I love your Harley Sawyer x Psychologist reader series and love how you wrote the both of them!

I was just wondering if you had any takes on how their relationship would've went? Like, if Harley never got turned into an experiment and the Hour of Joy never happened, what would've life been like? Did they get to go on more dates? Did they ever move in together? Did they ever get married? What was the proposal like? Did they ever have children together? What is Harley like as a dad? Is he gonna end up like his parents, is he gonna change for them, or is he the same old Harley? Does Yarnaby live with them as their sort of pet cat dog lion thing?

Omg I love this!!! Gladly I will answer but I will do it as in character as possible. 🙈👍

WHAT IF?...

Harley never got turned into an experiment:

I certainly believe that both Harley and Y/N would have tried to pursue a relationship, maybe with more initiative into Y/Ns part since Harley still is very awkward in certain matters.

The relationship wouldn't change much, the main thing that would change would be the time spent with eachother out of working hours (Most of your time goes to your work but the spare hours would go to eachother)

He would act more openly affectionate with you (in his own way of course):

He would make the effort to initiate more physical contact, either by fidgeting with your hair strings in private or by touching more your shoulders, arms, and even hands when passing documents.

All of this of course while making eye contact. I think Harley is into that and Y/N basically doesn't know how to talk to someone without looking at them directly in the eyes with little to no blinking so they are a perfect match in that aspect.

Another thing you would notice would be how he takes more care of you in little but heartwarming ways:

If you have your clothes disheveled, like the collar of your shirt is misplaced or your shirt has turned very untidy; he will grab you from the shoulders and with both of his hands he will correct the shirt of your collar.

The first time it happened you gulped instinctively at the touch of his cold and long fingers on your bare neck. His attention was fixated on your collar and after correcting the shirt, he took your arm and started to unroll your sleeves maintaining his hand on your wrist just s little longer than needed.

After that he just looked at you "Be careful with your clothes, they might blend with this recent insistence of yours of having contact with the experiments" He told you in a teasing manner but with a serious face (that will never change, sorry)

Harley also stoped threatening the other employees to shut up when he catches them gossiping about the both of you. Firstly, he reprimanded them reiterating that they were there to work, not to gossip but since you guys actually made it official, he just ignored the comments.

You, on the other hand, started gaining way more confidence than before around him. Harley noticed that when, one day out of nowhere, you took of his glasses and started cleaning them, claiming they were filthy.

His hands tend to be naturally cold and since recently you were having more migraines, you came up with a funny experiment. When one particularly strong headache attacked you while doing paperwork at the end of the night, you took Harleys hand (who by the way was with you in your office) and put it in your head and moved his fingers so they touched your eyelids.

He didn't move, he just looked at you and gave an experimental caress to your left eyelid. Suddenly your migraine seemed to have become weaker just by this action. (He still went out of his way to find you some medicine though)

Refering to dating, you were the one taking the leading role. Harley didn't like to go out much but there were still very good options for you to use.

One of your favourites was dinner at either of your places. You will make dinner together, or order take out from somewhere fancy and later watch a movie or read a fragment of a book and discuss it with one another.

Another great option that was actually Harley's idea was a visit to a Museum.

You were an enthusiastic of both arts and science so he figured that you would like to go to one. He planned out which day would be more empty, scheduling everything perfectly. You were s really quite surprised but ecstatic nonetheless.

He doesn't remember you happier than when you were ranting about the different and pretty toxic materials used in paintings, utensils and other daily tools that people had. You talked about the statistics of the dying population due to this motives.

Harley listened to you and added sometimes some facts about some chemical reactions produced by said material when mixed with other substances.

The day ended in a small bar in one of the many streets of the city. Chatting and eating together.

Another thing to take into consideration will be the conflicts. Every relationship had arguments and yours was not the exception.

You sometimes would get irritated about Harley not listening to your recommendations when handling the experiments which would led to said experiments to become mentally unwell.

You called out his lack of care in regards of their mental healths, arguing that it was an essential part in the whole project.

"I cannot believe I have to repeat this again? Don't you listen? This is damaging m- our project" Was something you often complaint

Another thing that could cause a bridge between you was his lack of management of anger.

When he had a very bad day with the other executives or was just feeling irritable in general he would pay it with everybody around him, including you sometimes.

One thing that Harley didn't really got used to was your stubbornness. Sometimes when arguing you wouldn't back down and later on, you will hold s grudge, making it evident to him of your unsatisfaction about the situation.

Luckily, you both understand that these problems are caused by your own characters and you try to talk it rationally with each other. Compromising and putting effort so both of you could reach a higher efficiency in communication.

He compromised to not become to self absorbed and to recognise you more as a part of his life in a deeper level and you compromised to let go of grudges and communicate more honestly to him

Other little fights you might have are just playful ones that address at your personal preferences in authors of books or just theories you discuss together.

You move in together:

I think he would be the one suggesting it and giving it more thought.

Both of you had fairly comfortable appartments and you weren't necessarily far from eachother (same city after all). But Harley thought that now that you were part of his routine, mind and heart; you could now be part of his personal space.

His apartment was more centric, you usually preferred the outskirts of the city

He suggested it on a lunch break, very casually. "How would you like moving in together?" You looked at him while biting your food. "Moving in... I haven't thought about it, I think it wouldn't be so bad, after all you come a lot to my house.." You responded, he chucked an said "I mean moving you into my home, how does that work for you?

You stayed silent, you knew how protective Harley was of his space and the fact that he wanted to share it with you really made you feel great. "Well, actually I wouldn't mind it at all. I could rent my Appartment and get the extra money" You said happy.

"Any plans this weekend?"He asked, you denied "Good, how about I help you move Friday afternoon" And it was settled

Just like that, you guys started living together. One thing that the staff noticed, believe me they noticed.

The front security saw you every day arriving together in the same car ( usually yours since you invested on a good one) and started tying the knots almost instantly.

At first his house was pretty neutral, very well organised and tidy, just like Harley but when your belongings strated to come in, the house started to look more of a mix between the both of you.

You had pillows and cushions that you added to his sofa and bed, now shared bed.

Your books invaded his room and living room and all of the spices, ingredients and complements you had from home were now on his kitchen. Plus some magnets that you bought from prior journeys to other countries.

The bathroom now had a extra pair of towels, a whole bunch more of shampoos and other soap's and an extra teeth brush.

You had already slept together before in the past but it took a little while to actually adapt to each others sleeping schedules and mannerisms.

Harkey slept as still as a corpse and you always slept hugging a pillow (Harley was said pillow from now on) but other nights his stiffness would break to hold loosely your waist or arm.

Another difference between you both was your difficulty to become asleep. You needed a lot of time to actually fall asleep and some nights you didn't because of some factors you hadn't recognised yet.

Harley helped you with that offering you to read together until you got bored and exhausted. Even sometimes going as far as to make you come infusion to help you sleep.

Due to his not so usual childhood, Harley suffers from some nightmares every so often. He will just wake up in the middle of the night, harshly and unsettled, having difficulties to breath properly or unable to relax on his own for a while.

That was before, since you came in you woke up with him most of those times and helped him to breath, slowly but surely and later on giving him so water. You talked to him about anything and everything to distract his mind.

One fateful night in which the nightmare was specially harsh, he had to wake you up because again, he found himself hyperventilating and unable to breath.

That night he told you about everything that happened to him and you just listened and stayed there for him. Not judging, not talking, just there, with him, and that was all that mattered to Harley.

He haven't opened up to someone else before. It was a slow process but he finally said it all. Harley wasn't familiar with vulnerability but at least he was glad that it was you who heard it. You at least wouldn't insist about it if you knew he felt uncomfortable. He was grateful for that

Another thing he did was installing a table in your now shared bedroom so you could have a space of your own to do your work at home or just for anything you may want to do.

In general his house became a little more colourful (it was all grey and black before you moved in) and he felt comfortable knowing you were there with him.

Home keeping is also an important thing to discuss with a partner. Luckily you both have your own little habits that make the division of task less conflictive.

Harkey likes to have everything tidied up just as he likes it. He has a very specific place for everything and is low key a cleaning maniac.

He has lots of cleaning supplies in a cabinet of the kitchen just to assure that everything is perfectly cleaned up.

You on the other hand, are very particular on your food and what ingredients you used, there fore while Harley manages the cleaning in the home you do the cooking and the stocking of food.

But something you both participate in is the cleaning and folding of the clothes. You are always very careful with each others clothes and always try maintain them clean to ensure their durability (clothes are expensive guys 😭).

In general the coexisting is pretty efficient and both of you end up being a good team. You do your cooking, he does his cleaning and you both always have a clean house and a home cooked meal to come home to. (And a partner that appreciates you a lot)

Another common thing in your life is Harley waking you if you ever sleep to long on your free days.

Normally, you use the weekends to relax, sleep and organise other aspects of your life that you don't have time to address daily.

Well, Harley always wakes up at the same hour. Every day. He doesn't wake up later than 7:00 am.

In weekends when you are sleeping and he sees you moving and groaning for being woken up he just puts hand on your torso or forehead to turn you back to bed so you could sleep more.

But one day you slept a lot. It was already 13:00 pm and he already had the food made but you were still passed out in bed.

When he went to wake you up you were spread out in bed, in a very strange position. That would give you a horrible pain neck later btw.

He turned your body to be layed normally, accomodating your back as he sat on the edge of the bed.

"Y/N" He called you while stroking your shoulder so you would wake up "Mhhh?" You groaned "What time is it?" You asked with a very sleepy tone "It's 13:00, wake up, lunch is ready and you are not being productive today" He was opening the blinds slightly so you would get used to the light, his voice in a whisper was like music to your ears. He sat back again in your side of the bed

"Okay, thanks darling, good morning" You said while incorporating and before you got to the bathroom to wash your face, you kissed him on the cheek.

Harley became as still as a stone. That was the first time you called him darling and certainly it was the first time you kissed him on the cheek as part of your good morning routine.

After that day, he found himself waiting for you to kiss his cheek again as a greeting or even as a farewell. When you started doing it more often, he already expected it every day as part of his routine and if he didn't got one he felt as if something was missing.

(My man is touched starved)

Random head cannon: I think this man is into puzzles and he has those that are really complicated, like 10 000 pieces and all that stuff. Or just a lot of rubric cubes with different shapes and sizes.

You got married:

After a few year of living together, Harley realised that you were already life partners.

At some point, Dr White made a joke asking him when was the wedding and that left him thinking for days.

You have been together for a long time and certainly you were acting as if you were already a marriage.

You had your cooking, he had his cleaning. Your late nights reading together in bed and your Saturday movies. You went for dates occasionally and in both of you were generally already very comfortable with each other to the point of letting both your guards down.

(He enters when you are showering to take some towels for the kitchen and start a conversation with you as if nothing and vice versa).

Plus marriage wasn't such a bad option either, it could be economically beneficial and most importantly you both would be officially and legally family.

You would have acces to each others medical care and he could add you to his insurances and likewise.

He didn't make a big surprise of it. Harley just waited until you got back home from work and told you about getting married. He had a whole bunch of documents and arguments about the benefits of marriage.

You accepted. You were happy and comfortable with him, it was only natural for you to take that step.

The next day, the first thing you both did was look for rings. It would be more efficient to chose the ones you liked and buy it straight up.

You bough him a simple golden wedding ring with your names engraved on the inner part. He chose it to be simple, but telling of your union.

He bought the you one you chose. It was simple, just as his, but you wanted a little stone on it because you liked shiny things (your basically a bird tbh) also with your names engraved on it.

I don't believe Harley is religious in the slightest. If you were to be, he would have the wedding as you liked, either by your church or other spiritual entity.

If you were good with civil wedding, that would be his preferred route. It would be simple but meaningful. Each of you would take a witness or two and go to sign to a notary. (You invited your mother and a close friend as witness and he brought Ludwig and Bruno White as he was the closest thing to a "friend" that he had)

After that, he would take you to a fancy place to have dinner and then go back home to, as you put it, "make official the union". 😉

On the following week's you would make jokes from time to time. Calling him husband, teasing him, only to see his deadpan face.

Deep down he liked that, though you would never catched him admitting it. But he felt comfortable with the feeling of you both being officially each others family and partner for life.

On your anniversaries, you would probably organise something like going to the theater or visiting different museums together. Those dates are probably the only ones in which you both cook together in the kitchen (You prefer to cook alone but will gladly do it accompanied by him)

Actually having fun and Harley explaining how cooking is basically chemistry, using examples with the dishes you make while you just listen to him talk and taste whatever you are cooking for the moment.

I think that being in a marriage with Harley would be like a middle aged married couple. Calm, tranquil, organised and filled with routine but with sporadic changes and dates that kept it interesting.

For your birthdays he buys you either books, earnings or special foods such as expensive coffees or fancy baskets of fruit and other goods.

For his birthdays you usually buy him more puzzles, journals for his experiments or new jerseys and shirts.

Once you bought him as a joke a jar of pickles and he looked at you with such a annoyed and disappointed look. (Later you gave him the real gift, a new computer, but that didn't stop you from laughing a bit more).

Sometimes, you get sick and he acts like, em, well, like a doctor. Basically he puts a mask on, makes you stay in bed, and gives you medicines and certain types of food during the day to help you heal.

He also checks your temperature and blood pressure to assure you don't get worse. Water is really important so there's alway a glass full of water next to you at your nightstand.

Basically he shows affection taking care of your health.

The marriage might seem boring to some people but when you both go to sleep at night, next to each other, you do it with the security of having found a responsable partner that worries about you and about your happiness.

Children?

I think that, precisely because what both your works look like, children wouldn't be an often topic in your home.

If you ever got pregnant, there would be two routes to take.

You don't want to keep the baby because your work with children is already conflicting enough as it is so you don't want to complicate things more.

Harkey would support you in the decision because, mainly because he doesn't know how to handle children and secondly because his work would make it difficult to interact with a child outside work. (And of you don't want the child then you shouldn't have it because it will only bring unhappiness to both mother and baby).

But if you decided to keep it, he would be a responsible partner and shate the responsibility with you. (As he should).

While being pregnant, he would be very observant , watching for any symptoms change or checking if you are comfortable.

The first trimester is hard, you have nauseas and you wake several times to throw up.

He always has water on hand to give you after it and a good herbal tea to help your stomach get settled.

Once your belly starts growing, he gets touchy. He starts caressing it and touching around the area, trying to feel if the baby kicks. As a doctor he is always careful, even more considering that it's his child the one inside.

When you start getting cravings, he just gives them to you without much resistance. (He had to physically restrain you with your bed sheets to stop you from eating the most disgusting mix known to man kind). He also starts feeding you more. He investigates about what foods are beneficial during a pregnancy and always tries to implement them in the cooking.

In the second trimester he gets more chill, already getting used to the new situation but will glare daggers at anyone that touches your growing belly. He tries to convince you to take a sick leave often but needs to just being with you more time to make sure you don't get harmed.

After all, the factory was still a dangerous place and not all of the coworkers had good intentions.

(No one from the staff members and the employees could believe that Dr Sawyer was getting laid fr, though they congratulated you).

He starts getting anxious in the third trimester, when you are around 8/9 months pregnant.

He's constantly worried that you might have any kind of complication. At this point you had already taken your pregnant leave for the remaining months of your pregnancy.

Finally, when you get into labor he rushes you to an hospital (probably in one he worked some time ago because he trusts it more with your heath).

He supervises everything the nurses do and helps you stand up so you would have an easier labor.

Finally when the child arrives he just sighs from relieve, just like when he does after a difficult operation ends successfully.

At first he didn't really had any real emotional connection with he child. He took care of them and worried about their health because it was YOUR baby, but it isn't until later on when the child starts getting a more defined personality, that he starts connecting with them more emotionally.

Don't get me wrong, it's his child, he cares for them and change them and feed them but he starts getting more involved and interested in their life as an individual when they are 3/4 year old and start having interest of their own (space, dinosaurs, animals, drawing etc).

The same goes with you, is your baby and you nurture and love them but you can't help the joy it gives you when they actually get an interest of their own.

You try applying your knowledge on child psychology to educate and raise your children the best way possible so they can end up being functional adults.

Harley wouldn't change much in general, but while the years keep passing and the child keeps growing and learning more he starts insisting on teaching the child things himself and making sure they are informed on various topics.

You both would be very honest with the child, at first masking a little bit the truth since the kid wouldn't totally understand but as they grow older, Harley and you would tell them things they asked very bluntly and without sugarcoating.

I think Harley as a dad is the type dad to be strict and trying to maintain control but letting the kid try things as a learning journey. Experience is the best teacher after all.

Emotionally he would be very constipated but worry not, he married a psychologist. You basically have to intermediate when your child and Harley are talking about feelings.

"Look, feelings often interfere with the original purpose of actions but If they matter to you I think I can make the effort of trying to understand you." Harley had just had a fight with his kid and you had to intervene to make them express each other properly (the kid is just as bad with feelings as the dad 😭)

You child looks at him with a understanding look, thanking silently the effort

"You see how dad is making an effort to understand you? Well, a reconciliation cannot work with only one party working on it, both of you need to put effort on this ok?" You asked taking your child's hand "Yes mom" They muttered brushing your knuckles "Harley, this goes for you as well"

After that, you joked with Harley about having to work at home as well. "Children can be so... " He started trying to express "exhausting, tiring, fascinating... You tell me, I work with them every day" You told him "he just gave a very lazy and breathy laugh. He barely did that so you were feeling pretty satisfied how everything turned out

Some times he just performs little experiments on the kid such as trying to make them understand the relation between colors and shapes or simple and basic motor skills.

You on the other hand would try to make your child learn using association. Like if they manage to say a word like mom, dad or simple things like that you would give them a treat.

The child would learn to talk because they would associate it with a positive stimuli.

You do care for your child and always try to do the best you can to not fuck up their mental health, but sometimes you get so overwhelmed that you just delegate the task to Harley.

Mostly when the child was still little and didn't know how to properly communicate he would just hold them hold reading in the sofa while you took a shower or a nap and the child would end up stop crying and sleeping next to their father.

Considering the body changes and how that could affect your own mental health, you tried to make time for yourself to also take care of your body and mind. Even though Harley doesn't understand the insecurity, he appreciates you for more than a body, he knows it affects you to a certain degree and does his best to show you he cares:

Holding you closer while you sleep, taking the child on walks often so you can have more time of peace and quiet etc.

Some nights you look at your child and think about the experiments. It might even give you some kind of guilt but after all, you are to stubborn and blind with your project to look deeper into the problem. So you chose to ignore it.

Some experiment have started noticing you become more... caring? With them. You get more caring with Doey, he'll you even started giving him hugs when he cries.

In general, Harley's support and care is silent but present. He cares about you, you've been together for a long time and have seem things that could turn mad anyone but after all you still stick together.

He cares about his child at first because it's a connection to you and later on he gets to like them as their very own person. Maybe he doesn't understand them completely or at all but it's his very own little experiment with you therefore, it's special.

Yarnaby:

If Harley is still working at playtime co and hasn't been turned into an experiment then I'm afraid to tell you but Yarnaby will still be property of the company and couldn't accompany Sawyer wherever he went.

Though, following this story line in which Sawyer gets to marry you and even have a kid then yarnaby will absolutely notice the little changes.

When you were still in your first and second trimester and you had to run some test on the lion, he would approach you putting his head on your stomach as if feeling that someone was there.

He would smell it and rub his head against it, his hairs jiggling in motion. Another thing he would do is sit next to you laying his big ass head on your lap while you ran the tests.

Basically he became more delicate with you, not knowing exactly why you felt different but deciding to be close to you. (Like a child clinging to his mother while she is pregnant with the little sibling)

Harley would be less violent with yarnaby recognising that at least he was intelligent enough to realise your state.

Once the baby was born and you took it to meet Yarnaby (probably not the best idea but anyhow) he would circle it, curious. Just as when you were pregnant, he would tap his head with the baby's head, making the infant giggle.

The moment the lion heard the giggle, he started bouncing happily around the baby and kept taping him with his head very carefully as the baby continued laughing and reaching for the lion.

Yarnaby usually laid on the floor and you would settle your kid in his yarn with you laid next to him. Both of you using Yarnaby as a pillow.

These moments were closely supervised by Harley who, against all odds, entered the cell to supervise both his wife and kid (and experiment)

If you kept bringing the child as they grew older then yarnaby would learn to treat it as some sort of sibling or friend. Playing together.

-Unedited fanfic-

Hey guys, I only have to exams left. I just had the biggest creativity bust with this prompt that my dear @sillyfishypeople-arts commented.

I hope you enjoy it as always. Have a nice day, drink water, eat food and Hakuna Matata. 🙈😚

I'm sorry if there are any mistakes but I'm sleeping 4/5 hours a day and English is not my first language. Regards my lovelies.<3

[notbecauseofvictories]

Just saw your post about graphic novels that intrigued you and it intrigued me too. Would you mind sharing which graphic novels have you read that you'd recommend or that affected you in interesting ways? Thank you!

When it comes to graphic novels, I tend to prefer the slightly idiosyncratic, and definitely adult. While I did like The Night Eaters, and Something Is Killing the Children (my first experience really dipping my toe in...) I learned very quickly that (a) I can't do anything with even a whiff of YA, and (b) series are not my forte. But that's okay, because this space also has a lot of artists writing and illustrating for adults, really putting the "novel" in "graphic novel."

I've talked before about Junji Ito and Alison Bechdel, so I won't repeat myself---though I do still love Bechdel's work with the unspoken, prickly edges of things; I think very fondly of that weekend I spent reading badly-translated jpegs of Ito's work, the sense of destabilization and disorientation it left me with.

A list of some other works that stand out, in no particular order:

The Third Person, by Emma Grove, which delves into the experience of someone with multiple identities, each with its own relationship to gender. Especially if you're about to read Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street for book club, I think this should be a required pairing.

If you're looking for something that captures the mundane struggle of making a life (similar to Will McPhail’s In.) there are lots of options! I'd recommend Roaming, by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, or maybe It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth, by Zoe Thorogood. I think Roaming might be stronger as a narrative, but It's Lonely is an imaginal and imaginative chronicle of that struggle to make a life, make art---though it didn't work for me as a narrative, the visuals stand out to me as beautiful, surreal in exactly the way I like.

I liked The Underwater Welder, by Jeff Lemire, for very similar reasons---the bits about a son trying to grapple with the legacy his alcoholic, semi-neglectful father didn't land, but when the narrator dives deep into the bay and encounters an abandoned ghost town where his own used to be? That was haunting.

If you enjoy Bechdel and Grove's work, then Julia Wertz's Impossible People is similarly a delight, and grapples thoughtfully with the narrator's alcoholism; it just didn't quite land for me in the way I wanted it to.

(Is this where I admit that I did like Blink, by Christopher Sebela et al? It's very old school scifi and almost cinematic in its approach, makes very few apologies for it, but the art is so, so divine.)

One of the most idiosyncratic was Paying for It by Chester Brown; an illustrated manifesto about the values of paying for sex, and the lives of the sex workers the narrator encounters. Honestly the most interesting part of this one was the fact that Brown has clearly thought about this subject a lot, and talked to everyone in his life about it. Some of the afterwords aren't from him---they're from his friends, who watched this from the outside, and share their perspective on how Brown has chosen or defends his approach to sex.

The even better news is that there are lots of DIY artists in this space as well! I have my own favorites close to home, plus I bought multiple copies of the Kentucky Route Zero fanzine, and I was lucky enough to snag some of the work offered as part of the Shortbox Comics Fair.

In particular I loved Stevie B.'s Dr. Limos Plays God (I'm a sucker for a clone identity crisis!), Otava Heikkila's Home by the Rotting Sea (which has some very fun Octavia Butler echoes), Narsid's Last Crane (lovely, and quite sad), and also Ver's Sacred Bodies, which has the dubious distinction of making me think "this better not awaken anything in me" for the first time since Crimes of the Future.

All this to say...graphic novels are neat, I enjoy them, but it's a bit like watching a movie with subtitles. I mostly understand what's going on, but I think I'm missing some of the finer shades and nuances that would take my experience to the next level.

[raleighrador]

Many people like the Jedi. Many people dislike the Jedi. Dogmatic can and often is used as a pejorative (Palpatine certainly did!). Therefore people describing the Jedi as dogmatic are interpreted (often correctly) as denigrating the Jedi and so people who like the Jedi reject the idea that the Jedi were dogmatic.

I like this post because OP is actually trying to engage with the text. Where I respectfully disagree is with their conclusion, as well as their treatment of textual evidence (both the examples they list, and some they ignore).

As starting point though - what does it mean to be dogmatic? It means being very strongly wedded to your own beliefs and expressing them as fact; and, or the belief that your chosen principles and rules are undeniably true. That is a fair description of the Jedi - even if you think the Jedi are great and all their rules are great - they are quite literally dogmatic. 1. the stated reason provided by the Jedi is that Anakin, at 9 year's old, was too old and there was too much anger in him. They never once articulate any awareness of or concern for his trauma. They never once articulate the idea that he needs help. Given what we also saw in Episode 4 (too old to being the training!) this to my mind reads very much as an assessment of a candidate against a set of rules or criteria. I would also add that (going beyond exclusively the text of the movie) the Jedi do enforce an age limit rule, not a too much trauma rule. That is the definition of dogmatic - a rule (probably a sensible one with sensible reasons) is initially intended as a heuristic but then become valid in its own right. That said, where the Jedi council do actually demonstrate some flexibility and pragmatism is that they turn around and do eventually admit Anakin as a Padawan.

2. The issue is less that they don't believe Maul is a Sith, but the reasons why. They treat their belief that the Sith are extinct with certainty that is beyond reproach. They describe the idea that the Sith might have returned as something that could not have happened without the Jedi knowing. Their attitude is premised on an assumption of near perfect, infallible information. Yes they order Qui-Gon to investigate, as a side mission to his primary duty of investigating Amidala. They don't exactly treat it as a serious issue worthy of its own consideration. They are more confident in their assumption that the attacker is not a Sith than they are in the evidence and testimony of Qui-Gon. If we are exclusively looking at the movies - there is no evidence that Fallen Jedi/Vanilla Darksiders are common enough (or even exist at all) for this to be read as a reasonable assumption. If we are looking at the EU then surely an experienced Master (who once had a padawan who became a Fallen Jedi) is capable of telling the difference between between vanilla darksider and something a whole lot worse, and the Council should reasonably respect. Either way, they value their own beliefs more highly than new evidence. The more egregious example in some sense is in AOTC, which is Obi-Wan's reaction to Dooku telling him a Sith controls the senate. This is a true fact. We know it is a true fact. Obi-Wan rejects it out of hand. His reasoning is "that's not possible, the Jedi would sense it". Again, his base belief is the Jedi could not be wrong about this. He doesn't ask Dooku to explain or evidence the claim, he just dismisses it. We as the viewer can infer that Obi-Wan doesn't trust Dooku, but he doesn't even ask for evidence.

3. Again, the question needs to be asked WHY this rule exists (attachments are bad) but it is a similar issue to the age limit. This rule is treated as sacrosanct, the fact that marriage leads to unmanageable attachments as a fact, not something that can be managed. There is no nuance. This is the same as real life monastic orders - literally all of which are defined by their dogmatism, so it is odd to me that a post arguing the Jedi are not dogmatic would assert they are one but anyway. It also isn't at all clear that you can "just bounce". In fact we get told in the movies that only 20 Jedi have ever left. The implications of this are never explored but basically you can conclude one of 2 things: being a jedi is so awesome that of the 100s of 1000s of Jedi over the life time of the Republic only 20 were ever dissatisfied enough to leave OR leaving the Jedi is incredibly difficult (for whatever reason) and so only 20 have ever pulled it off. The movie gives no evidence either way but what the movie does tell us is that Jedi are recruited as babies and not allowed any meaningful or invested relationships and aren't allowed material possession. OP also implicitly buys into the idea that in order to be a Jedi you have to follow a narrow set of rules. There is no room for debate of those rules. You are in or out. Draw your own conclusions. 4. What is Obi-Wan's asshole behaviour? His treatment of Anakin & how he speaks about Anakin to others. On the former - yeah, he's a dick, but the actual content of his dick like behaviour is consistently about Anakin's failure to live up to a set of defined expectations which are consistent for all members of their monastic order. This is literally the definition of dogmatism. Anakin is criticised for not following the rules, as opposed to whether or not he is right or wrong in context. The best example is publicly berating Anakin for suggesting an investigation is necessary - when a) it is patently obvious that is true and b) the council come to that conclusion soon after. Obi-Wan's basis is "we will do as the council instructed". It isn't a substantive refutation of the suggestion, it is an appeal to authority. I also don't know that other Jedi defending Anakin by saying "fear not Obi-Wan, your concerns based on observations of the living human Anakin Skywalker are baseless because as was foretold in the ancient prophecy he is the Chosen One!" really counts against the dogmatic claims 5. OP literally lays out the same "No True Scotsman" fallacy Windu commits. His belief about Dooku's capacity for violence has nothing to do with any recent, relevant evidence, but rather a belief that no Jedi would ever behave that way, Dooku was a Jedi, therefore Dooku wouldn't behave that way. Dooku has been gone for 10 years at least. Who knows what has changed in that time. Mundi describes him as a political idealist, not a murderer. Again - based on what? 10 year old information and the belief that anyone who was once a Jedi is incapable of evil? There is also an internal illogic - do Windu et al believe it IS totally in character of a Jedi to lead a political movement and therefore Dooku hasn't changed, or do they think he has changed enough to do so? The movies also go to great lengths to prove the Jedi totally wrong in their belief. They're just flat out wrong, and yet they were ever so certain that reality must align with their beliefs.

6. Vague Jedi advice because of Vague Questions asked - sure. What is clear though is Yoda says we should celebrate people dying because they return to the Force. He stets this as a universal truth. He must be such great comfort on his "Make A Space Wish" visits to the paediatric cancer wards. Different viewers can take a different views on how else that conversation might have played out. Could Anakin have been more specific? Yes. Could Yoda have asked more questions? Yes. In fact I think it is very telling that Yoda does ask questions - he asks if the person is someone close to Anakin. He doesn't ask how they die. He doesn't ask who they are. He is totally disinterested in the practicalities, he is far more interested in Anakin's attachments. In fact that is the ONLY thing he is interested in. Anakin's adherence (or lack of) to the no attachment rule is the big issue for Yoda, not that someone might die. That is a very particular focus.

7. This doesn't speak to dogmatism either way so honestly it feels neither here nor there. 8. It is a literal ad hominem to say that a statement is false because of who said it. Palpatine also said the senate was corrupt, is that also not true? The actual point is that as a viewer we can assess i) whether is is plausible that Anakin agrees with him and ii) our own assessment of how accurate or not the statement. Given what we know of Anakin's experiences - and his opinion of those experiences - I think i) is yes. Based on my own observations of the Jedi through the films my view is that Palpatine's statement is accurate.

Even putting aside all of the above. The Jedi all wear basically identical outfits. They aren't allowed material possessions. They all live in a giant temple. The all quote a code which dictates their behaviour and beliefs. They are super focused on following "the rules". They are very hierarchical.

tl;dr you don't need Skeevy Sheev to point out that the Jedi are dogmatic & you don't need to accept that "dogmatic" = "bad"

Star Wars Rant: The Jedi Dogma Lie You Fell For

The older I get and the more of a movie centric perspective I take in star wars (books and comics and games are good, but they either tell stories that aren't relevant or fill in the gaps), the more I've come to believe that the writers lacked the media literacy as much as the fans in regards to how dogmatic the jedi actually were

Palpatine said the order had a narrow and dogmatic view of the force once and the fanbase and writers immediately went "YEAH HE WAS RIGHT" without understanding what was going on and 20 years of telephone later it's become accepted as fact so much that it's permanently poisoned the well.

In the prequel trilogy list of things "explaining" jedi dogma, we have...

The jedi did not want to train Anakin as he was a ball of Trauma. This is fair when your magic system runs on being able to not need let your emotions control you. Anakin needed help, not jedi training.

The jedi not believing Qui Gon when he said there was a sith afoot. The sith have been gone for a thousand years, or so they think. That, enough, is reason to not be sure about it. In the EU/Legends, Dark Jedi cropped up every couple of years so it could have easily been one of those instead. One of them was Qui's former student. AND the jedi didn't just say "that's not a problem, ignore it". They very pointedly say to go investigate the problem. And Qui is good enough at his job that they kept him on the case

The jedi don't allow marriage. It's a monastic order and they are free to leave. There is literally no penalty for just bouncing as long as you don't burn the bridges yourself

In AOTC, we see Obi Wan being especially down on Anakin the whole movie and the other jedi in the scenes, Mace and Yoda, express concern and try to defend Anakin from his own master. Genuinely, Obi Wan is the bigger problem here than any other jedi. He's my favorite, but he's an asshole in AOTC

On Dooku, Mace doesn't think Dooku would do assassination because that is, at that time, super out of how the jedi operate. Dooku was a jedi so it should not have been in his character.

In Revenge of the Sith, Anakin goes to Yoda for advise about Padme but is vague as fuck so he gets vague jedi advise about detaching yourself from the situation and being happy they're going to jedi heaven. He Cannot Give Better Advise because Anakin is being Anakin.

Same movie, Mace says he doesn't trust Anakin with spying on Palpatine because he doesn't think he can handle it. And Anakin is only treated like a shitheal in the film when he acts like one. Yes, there's the undercurrent of him trying to save Padme but the movie doesn't at all explain that he's trying to get into the archives. No one can help him because he's not letting them.

Same movie, Palpatine points out the Dogmatic and Narrow view of the jedi according to the force.

There is really no part of the prequels that doesn't make sense and doesn't exonerate the "dogma" of the jedi in some way unless you're looking at what writers did after the fact.

Do the jedi have issues within the films?

Yes

Are they too beholden to the state?

Probably

But those are different issues and the official writers and the fans have both permanently poisoned the well because they took the big bad of 9 films at face value without criticism

[yeryeryea]

8 underrated eremika fanfics that I think definitely deserve way more recognition, appreciation, and love:

🤍 Anamnesis by Karizard (@karizard-ao3)

I've reread this a few times and it gave me a sci-fi movie vibe based on those romance, humor elements, and family scenes. It's rare to see Mikasa as a fuckgirl and Eren being the absolute wife guy ever (trust me, it's really sweet). The idea that every au of eremika has them deeply loving each other is so appealing, I love them and can easily imagine their lives when I'm dozing off lol. And I literally screamed when canon Eren appears! Imagine if this were a Netflix series, just picture the trailer with Eren's titan roar as one of the episodes even if it's just a quick black screen for one second. It would totally hype everyone up!

🤍 ocho by AphoticW

It's very sweet and I think Eremika in this au has the healthiest relationship ever! And for the first time I can actually accept jeankasa while reading. It was really refreshing and gave me a new perspective on their dynamic, something I didn't expect to enjoy as much as I did when I saw the title. It really caught me off guard in the best way possible.

🤍 My Emotional Kaleidoscope by On_kamis_green_earth

It's hard to find a mature fanfic that includes the topics I'm interested in, like addiction and its effects. There aren't many fluffy moments in this au but there are very realistic problems that really make you think. I was hooked right after the first chapter. It feels so raw and real, unlike the typical dramatic fanfics that can feel a bit too far removed from the harsh realities of life (yes I'm talking about DF lol). I love how it dives into deep emotional themes without sugarcoating anything. The complexity of the characters really stands out and keeps me engaged throughout.

🤍 see you later (the series) by sinigangsta (@sinigangsta-ao3)

This is a great series about canon eremika! The way it explores their bond is so genuine and heartfelt. I love how it delves into the everyday moments of their life and shows their connection. It's not just about the big moments but the little things that make their relationship so endearing. And there's smut! Plenty of them :) Lots of steamy moments that really add to the chemistry.

🤍 i can't think of anything funny to say by miriamika

[Still updating] It's hilarious and brings a fresh twist with its unique 1950s time setting. The humor is spot-on, and the fun mix of comedy and nostalgia had me laughing out loud while also appreciating the content. I really hope the author comes back one day to give us more!

🤍 Porcelain Menial by cxcassi (@cxcassii)

[Still updating] To say it's sexy, hot, sultry, passionate, or anything else is seriously an understatement! I love how Eren's character shifts from being kinda casual with his intentions to completely serious when they finally sleep together lol. It's like watching him evolve. This is definitely a fanfic people should check out and I'm waiting for more! Can't wait to see where it goes next!

🤍 The U and I in Security by Shining TEA

[Still updating] I don't think there's any other eremika fanfic that sets them up as security guards! It's hilarious, not just between eremika but literally between everyone. It's kind of a slow burn, but each chapter just keeps getting better. I was literally cracking up during their soccer game! Also, Eren tries to deny, or should I say, can't quite figure out his feelings in the cutest way, and it was so amazing. I hope the author updates soon!

🤍 Gangsta's Paradise by Drift1607

The criminal x cop relationship actually reminded me of Zootopia. I just realized it's kind of like an ‘old’ fanfic but I've reread it a few times now. Eren in this au is so funny and refreshing, unlike other aus where he's more serious or something, his lines had me laughing nonstop. But just a heads up, there's a bit of ereannie smut in one of the chapters (😿), but I'm sure it's still a great fanfic that's definitely worth reading! It's fun and full of personality, so if you like a unique spin on their dynamic, you'll love it.

[a-wynterwonderland]

This has probably already been said but I wanted to write my two cents on the matter.

While I'm fine with the depiction of Atem being a smooth-talker and a flirt there's something about him being awkward/shy about romance that I enjoy more. Canon already implies Atem is romantically clueless but I like to take it a step further.

This guy is so confident and level-headed but when it comes to being romantic, he's shy. The idea of Atem, who is very confident in most situations, being romantically shy makes him endearing imo. Like you hold this man's hand and he's gonna think about it for weeks.

Firm believer that he uses more "old fashioned" ways to refer to his s/o as. I mean come on dude is from the ancient world. So no calling his s/o "babe" in this house. Shudders. No, he definitely calls his s/o "my love" and "my dear" and "darling/my darling."

And because my guy is touched-starved this dude's a cuddler. Doesn't matter who the big spoon/little spoon is as long as he's engaged in physical contact with his lover. In a moment of boldness he might even pull them down on his lap just to have them close. Cuddling on the couch while watching movies. Falling asleep while his head is on his s/o's lap as they card their fingers through his hair.

But yeah I believe in romantically shy Atem supremacy.

[princess-glassred]

@cwcthzl sorry to @ you again but I thought of more hijinks for Stanley and Richie to get up to in the freaky friday au and i thought it'd be weird to dm em.

•Adorable montage of them teaching each other how to act more like they normally do.

•When Richie arrives for Stanley's fancy admissions dinner Donald and Andrea try to introduce him to the stuffy school dean very first thing, but Richie makes a bee line for the table, plops his ass down with a menu, and says "Yeah, yeah whatever- do you think they serve chicken nuggets here?".

•Richie tries to nervously push up his glasses but he forgets hes stan so he doesnt have glasses and accidentally pokes himself in the eye out of nowhere and causes a scene.

•"Sorry! Sorry! I guess I'm kinda.... just not myself today."

•Then when Donald and Andrea point out that the old guy sitting across from him is the dean Richie folds IMMEDIATELY. "Oh my god, Mr. School Dean sir, i am SO sorry- i didn't mean to sit down and not introduce myself to you and- oh no don't shake my hand, i forgot to wash my hands when i left the bathroom.... uhm i don't NORMALLY do that, i was just very excited to get out here and meet you so i... forgot.".

•Donald tries to goade Richie into talking about birds since he thinks that'll impress the dean Richie has to pretend like he gives a fuck about birds. The dean asks richie what his favorite bird is and richie freaks and says "pigeon.". "Pigeons? Just pigeons?". "Yeah well they poop on big city guys and i think that's pretty funny.".

•When the conversation turns to talking about numbers richies like. "Oh yeah, i love numbers, i love math, i'm good at calculating things. Did you know that 6 × 4 is 24? I'm serious, look it up if you don't believe me."

•At one point richie calls stans mom and dad "madre and padre" and they're so fucking confused.

•After the bomb of an admissions lunch richie feels terrible, so he wants to do something really nice for Stan. So he takes his allowance and goes shopping for stan some nice clothes, and NOT JUST CLOTHES RICHIE THINKS ARE NICE. He really does try to find stan something nice that fits his personality, but also gets stan out of his comfort zone! He wants him to look nice, not ridiculous.

•He also uses this as an oppertunity to wear some sunglasses because Richie's never actually gotten the chance to wear sunglasses. Prescription ones are too expensive, but now as stan he can flip em up like every stereotypical cool dude in the movies.

•When Stan sees his new look he's utterly horrified. Richie didn't even cut his hair or anything, he's just wearing sunglasses and some new clothes. When stan asks "what did you DO to me??" Richie just says "it's called color stanley, and you happen to look great in it. It's not the great depression anymore, we're allowed the luxury of dyes.".

•Stan also got his drivers license before Richie, because, lets face it, richie doesnt belong behind the wheel ever. So Richie gets to drive as Stan and stan is very upset by this.

•Richie also tries to slick stan's hair down with some gel but it just will NOT. STAY. SLICKED. DOWN. it's like stans medusa but instead of snakes he just had sentient locks of hair! It's like trying to wrap up an entire uncurled ball of yarn, it's impossible. The hair has a mind of it's own and it will not abide by what Richie thinks is cool.

•Richie also finds out that, despite stan being incredibly neat and detail orientated and tidy, there is one designated spot of Stan's room he keeps dirty, and that is a bed side table that's FILLED with just random junk stan can't bear to part with. Richie is utterly scandalized to know tidy ass stan has a hoarder drawer, and the stuff he hoardes isn't even really important stuff-- at least not at a first glance. He has a box of expired pasta, a case of broken hairtyes, a tape recorder with all the buttons fallen off and... a really ugly necklace richie made him when they were in second grade. It's got a bunch of tacky mismatched beads and it's so not Stanley's style, but... he didn't throw it out :,).

•Richie runs into Henry Bowers at one point (this is one of those no juniper hills aus) and he starts bullying him for being jewish and all richie can think while it's happening is. "Jeez, his jew jokes are way less funny than mine".

•Meanwhile Stan is confronted with his worst challenge yet: Hanging out in Richie's disgusting room. Eugghhh.

•Seriously the place is a jungle and it makes him long for when he woke up with blurry vision and couldn't see anything.

•Stan asks Maggie and Wentworth what's the cleanest spot in the whole house because "he cannot focus in such mess" and both very surprised. Richie's never talked like that before, and he has always been very insistent that he liked having his room a pig stye because it was easier to find everything. Now they see Richie walking around his room like he's manuevering through a mine field, but instead of land mines it's dirty underwear. Yuck!

•Also when they first woke up in each others bodies and were freaking each other out Stan accidentally stepped onto something wet and mushy feeling and, without even looking down, asked Richie. "Richie. What am i standing in right now? -_-". "Uhhhh, the pizza i had in here since fourth of July." "...." "...." "You should probably change your socks." "You're right Richie, which ones should i use? The ones that smell like sweat or the ones with black on the bottom? Oh you actually have a clean pair? Well my oh my the surprises never stop do they?".

•When he goes on his date with Connor he takes off Richie's glasses in an attempt to read the menu but ofc it just looks like blurry smudges. Stan just groans and says "Oh he's actually fucking blind- well this stinks.".

•Stanley forcing himself to like Connor goes pretty terribly. He could not give less of a crap about this dude, and the fact Connor has such a fuckin ego about himself makes it worse. Stan isn't someone who giggles and fusses over another person, especially not someone he doesn't like. Ofc he still loves his friends but he doesn't melt from flattery like Richie and he also has no interest in essentially being this dudes cheerleader. But he has to be Richie now, and Stanley's only frame of reference for him and Connors relationship is obsessively onesided cuteness from Richie. So alas... "Wow Connor. You're so... nice. Your arms are really... wow, and your teeth. They're so... clean. I can tell you brushed today.... tehee. -_-".

•When Stanley is hanging out with the rest of the losers he and Eddie have a disagreement about something really tiny and everyone's like "omg, here come the fireworks! Time for the to start squabbling!" and then they just don't. Stanley calmly gets out of the hammock and let's him have it, much to their sheer horror.

•Also when they are first getting used to each other's bodies Richie will not stop making ugly faces or doing weird poses at Stan to annoy him. He even does the robot at one point and Stan's mortified. There ain't shit he can do about it tho other than whine and complain, which isn't all too different from Stan normally.

•Bill is feeling down about random life troubles and he asks Stan if he can tell him a joke to cheer him up. Stan scratches the back of his neck and shuffles his feet all awkwardly, then settles on. "What did the bunny say to the other bunny? Don't be mad be hoppy. You see it's really funny because bunnies don't know how to talk.".

•Stan and Richie try to run back to the Jade of the Orient and talk to the lady that swapped their bodies, but when they get there multiple people are screaming at each other in chinese because they already know what happened and they're not happy. It's oddly reassuring to know SOMEONE is freaking out as much as they are, but Richie points out to stan that they're actually making fun of them while they do it. "Really Richie? I never knew you spoke mandarin." "I don't." "Then how do you know?" "Because that lady is cupping her hands around her eyes to make fun of my glasses and that other lady just straightened her posture to make fun of the way you stand." "...Oh." "Yeah..." "...Wait, am I crazy or are they immitating our voices too?" "-_- Yep.".

•Richie eats some fast food and Stan proceeds to have a heart attack over it.

•When Stan tries to tell his friends he's actually Stan and not Richie they all just laugh and assume it's another one of Richie's stupid bits. The more he doubles down the more the losers think he's just joking. Then when Stan tries to point out his vocabulary is totally different the losers are just like "yeah! Your impressions are getting so much better!".

•They try to switch back a number of ways, making a wish, prayer to multiple different types of god, deal with the devil, literally just running at each other and slamming their heads together. Nothing works.

[ajarofbees]

"i'll take a crack at it for fun" <- said by someone who then spent too long thinking about teams for all their rooks

im a very VERY casual pokemon player so team comp and move sets are probably all over the place but its all good. we're all good here.

Fiore Thorne:

-im a vibes based player so the theme for feefee was fast attacker because despite the fact he has a shield hes overly enthusiastic to get into the action. -arcanine as the loyal friend symbol, like mabari, combined with a fire typing just felt right (not to mention the champion specialization does fire damage). braviary for similar reasons and makes one half of the griffon duo with arcanine. -sirfetch'd and gallade for his noble knightly hero ideals. important note is nurturing a shy and empathetic pokemon like ralts, showing off feefee's good heart. -and cinderace and pawmot as spunky friends. they just felt right for feefee!

(the rest are under the cut to avoid a big honkin' post)

Dorothea Ingellvar:

-spooky but also can be helpful as a theme! -cofagrigus for the necropolis and mourn watch as a whole--its a ghostie with a taste for gold! -dusknoir for speaking with the dead, using its radio like supernatural sense to help out her duties. -mismagius is a witch. its pretty simple on that end. -gardevoir and skeledirge are both soothing pokemon--gardevoir is empathetic to living beings and skeledirge soothes spirits with its singing. -rabsca is there because you cant go wrong with a funny bug. also the mourn watch faction symbol is a bug.

Dietline Ingellvar:

-spooky but a little less ghost and magic focused, since shes a warrior and takes the role of defender for her sister. -aegislash, ceruledge, and corviknight all drives that points home. theres swords. two of them are ghost types still. -absol as a guardian and watcher. -mandibuzz because..... well. theres probably vultures around. -i assume houndstone and greavards are all over the necropolis in poke-thedas lol and all pretty used to the mourn watch everywhere. this place is full of free dogs!

Hakiem Laidir:

-its pirate time baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! most of these are pretty obvious i feel haha--shark for the ocean, a haunted anchor to tap into rivain's spirital side even if hes not a mage, two different seabirds for freedom, and a fun water mouse to go nuclear. -the story wiht the gimmighoul is hakiem found it hanging out in a treasure chest during a job and now it just hangs around him for fun. it cant do much but hakiem keeps an eye out for gimmighoul coins for it--he doesnt know its how it evolves but hey. hes always down to do a friend a solid, especially if treasure is involved.

Vehris Aldwir:

-their team's theme is "Strange Things To Find In The Forest". we've got a bear (as mentioned in the daemon prompt, vehris would possibly have a bear daemon), a deer for the halla, birds and archers, and Something Strange That Came Out Of The Ruins. -we can assume vehris is naturally calm and even keeled enough that hatterene is cool with them and does not go on a killing spree.

Cvetka Thorne:

-if youre not giving your dwarf warrior in a pokemon au a tinkaton, why the hell not

Bacchus de Riva:

"hes always got that spinda out, how strong could the rest of his team possibly be?" <- said by an idiot

dark types all over considering the crows are.... the crows!

having a honchkrow makes it pretty obviously bacchus is playing up his laziness and playing down his actual skill, which drives viago bonkers all the time.

"haha i got him down to one pokemon how can he possibly win now?" <- said by someone about to be cut in two like an old school samurai movie

Dionysus de Riva:

-dark types and a bit more in your face for battle.

Leth's Horrible Pokemon Team

Okay so yesterday broodwolf was asking about pokemon teams, and I made one up for Leth. They don't care about good party comp at all and have a bunch of poisonous misfit weirdos <3

BUT I also really like trying to make pokemon teams work. When I play the games, I try to spec each pokemon so that it HYPOTHETICALLY, MIGHT be able to kill something, by itself. And then it usually doesn't work, but I do my best. Anyway, I replaced Galarian Stunfisk with Toxapex (which, in fact, makes the party comp worse, lol) but I kept everything else and I tried to figure out a setup where Leth could hypothetically win with these guys

Disclaimer I am not a competitive pkmn person so this is me just Doing My Best, but it was fun! Anyway, Here's How These Losers Can Still Win:

Made on this website! This isn't really a tag game, but I invite others to play, if they want! I know... most moves? And I have a comprehensive pokedex app on my phone, so maybe can help with moves/items/abilities, if you want

[lastofthe20thcenturygirls]

sometimes i'm like what do you mean that movie is THAT old it doesn't even look like it and then i come across the posters and they look like these

[turtleblogatlast]

Something I’ve been thinking about lately is that small moment in “Air Turtle” where immediately after the Daves lose yet another game, Leo says how sorry he is and how he’s doing his best as the mascot. This moment is so short but it’s honestly jam-packed with a whole heap of characterization.

His need to apologize for things clearly not his fault - especially when it feels like he messes up the job he was given despite doing the best he can (the phrase “it’s not about you” takes a new meaning when this is one of the lessons to be learned from that - that he is not always solely responsible for things going wrong), his need to save face and make a connection with an older adult man in his life (something he consistently does throughout the series - he’s got a few daddy issues, always collecting potential father figures, it’s no wonder he jumps at the bit to keep rapport), and the way he sounds and looks and the words he chooses really pushes how he is just a kid (“Mr. the Dunk, I’m so sorry”).

Like I know it’s a one off moment that doesn’t truly mean much, but when put against the rest of the series it works really well with the rest of Leo’s established character and helps in solidifying later concepts as well.

[psychomusic]

so. I've been reading some posts on the jedi order tag AND i won't talk about my opinion on "are jedi good or bad discourse" BUT i wanna point out some lore to everyone who's complaining about the jedi taking kids into their order: (in the EU) it wasn't always like this.

if you take swtor era (more than 3000 years before the prequels) there were many jedi who joined at an older age. like, for example there was a guy who broke his engagement to become one. most jedi remember their families because they were old enough when they decided to go.

THEN in darth bane's book trilogy (circa 1000 yesrs before the prequels) there is a passage where two sith lords are talking about taking bane, already an adult, to study at korriban. one doubted him because he was too old, ans the other told him he sounded like a jedi, and that ONE DAY jedi will have to accept only kids into their ranks if they really want to find "pure" people that can learn their lessons quicker.

one day!! so it wasn't always like that!! the ongoing wars with the sith, who corrupted and killed many of them, had pressured them into taking always younger people into their ranks.

also, consider a thing that this video explains super well: training to become a jedi is not like exercising, because there is a transformative lesson at the end of the training that changes everything. you can't just do as much as you can, but not finish.

the transformative lesson, as the video explains, is that through the force, everything is the same - from rocks and ships to life and death. at the end of the training you have to understand this fundamental truth.

yoda says "you have to unlearn what you have learned". during times where they were constantly killed off or corrupted by the dark side (and if you haven't learned this lesson you are more susceptible to this corrupting), younger people were taken in to actually finish their training (a training that was ultimately about being a good person AND that you could leave at any point if you weren't sold on that, too)

(remember that for the sith failure = death. like. that was the alternative for force sensitive kids. it's not like sith had any moral problem with taking kids away without consent. sith don't have moral problems: they believe that them being stronger in the force means they can do whatever they want as long as their strong enough to go and do it. there are MANY passages in many different star wars stories, even in different mediums, that say this out loud)

AND (this is more of a critical thought than just stating the lore) the fact that they started doing it out of necessity doesn't mean it's 100% good BUT you know. the whole set up of the prequels is that we're starting off the story in a period of crisis and decadence all around. most of the systems of the times were about to fall. OF COURSE they had problems. if they didn't, we wouldn't have the story to begin with.

that doesn't automatically mean jedi = bad and sith are better, tho. you wouldn't take the last, chaotic and decadent period to jugde something, would you? it's like deciding that the athenian democracy sucked because people at the times of Demosthenes failed at recognizing the new schemes in which the world was evolving into, and still believed that their city would be important as it had been in the previous century. They just didn't fucking expect the Macedons would conquer half the world known and more, and have the subsequent political power. Still, their experiences in the 5th century with democracy were very good, even better than ours on many fronts, if you contextualize a little. the jedi had flaws, and most importantly, they didn't fucking know the future and everything that ever happened, ever, so they made mistakes. that doesn't automatically make the system ill, or bad, or not-working. systems can have setbacks when the world changes. (just like athenian democracy had one when they lost the empire that was funding the democracy. they even had a tyranny for a while and then fixed the problems. that doesn't diminish retrospectively their democracy)

[que-de-metal]

ever since these i've been thinking about making tons of fake little paintings you'd find in an old video game in-game's gallery

[wasabikitcat]

community college is so funny because half of the teachers are like "For this class you need to use lockdown browser for all quizzes and tests. You need to buy this 70 dollar textbook, and all papers turned in must be in APA format with a title page even if they're only 500 words long. I will not accept late assignments. Also you have a minimum of 4 assignments a week." and the other half are like "you don't need proctoring for the final exam I trust you. here's a download link to a pirated copy of the textbook. as long as your writing is coherent and demonstrates an understanding of the material I literally could not care less what format you use. I can't figure out how canvas works so I'm not giving you due dates, just make sure it's turned in before the grading period ends. your only weekly assignment is a forum post with a minimum of 100 words."

[localemofreak]

Don’t forget people!!!

‼️Michael is NOT meant to be a good person‼️

so it’s prob best we don’t simp over the character…

Joseph Quinn in Hoard?? Yes 100%- but Michael?? Idk..

Not judging, not trying to put down anybody- but just thought it might be a nice little reminder :) 👏

[tothebestofmyabilities]

What's your all-time favorite Bob's Burgers episode? Like this is YOUR episode? (You can list multiple if you want!)

Oooh my all time all time favorite is Carpe Museum! Its the first episode featuring regular sized rudy who's one of my favorite characters now and i love how that friendship with louise started and its such a sweet bob and louise episode as well.

Its also the first time the show explores the dynamic between gene and zeke which of course gave birth to my life long love affair with genezeke, their personalities mesh so well and the silly nicknames/pet names on zekes part??? I live for that.

Its my sisters favorite episode too and bc the belchers are eerily similar to my own family its always been something my family watches and enjoys and loves together so it makes me happy that me and my sister have the same favorite episode and that fact only makes me love the episode even more.

Plus cute boblin and isn't that the first henry haber episode too? Lots of good stuff.

Close seconds include in no particular order of importance:

Gene it on (cheerleader gene lives rent free in my heart i like to think he still does it just off screen)

The runway club (breakfast club episode? The little bits of school staff lore? Especially mr branca? The cotton candy festival which i desperately want an episode about? Iconic)

Poops! I didn't do it again (when i say the belchers are eerily similar to my family this is one episode id point too and i will not elaborate)

Work hard or die trying girl (im a theater kid at heart)