#very twilight zone

[twilight-zoned-out]

Learning about the Doctor Who specials' expanded budget: oh no, what if they overuse CGI to look more 'professional' and high-budget?

The first scene of the Doctor Who Special:

[hoofpeet]

Ouwouuuuhhhhh

[mollysunder]

Looks like Singed is under Noxian custody (top left), which implies that the raid we saw in the teaser and the trailer lead to the widespread capture of multiple Zaunite citizens from multiple factions, including civilians.

And Jinx really is breaking these people out of jail. Jinx probably came for Singed first, but things happen and suddenly she's freeing everybody.

The irony shouldn't be lost on anyone that the most significant thing Jayce and Vi did in Zaun last season was lead a raid where not only were multiple unarmed workers physically assaulted by enforcers and a child was killed, but the civilian workers were still arrested in the end, including the child workers!

Jinx really gets a mural because she's THAT girl!

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OH ARTHUR BENNETT.. such a gorgeous and intriguing character. terribly burdened by a GRUESOME set of crimes, his light suffocated by a HEAVY century of GUILT. so tragic, so dark and broody, and yet PAINFULLY awkward in any social setting ever

[bananonbinary]

also i think its a very good example of why checklist-analysis of tropes is so shallow, because that description of the episode up there? sounds REALLY bad in concept, but if you actually watch it you'll see that it's very well-meaning and avoids some of the worse implications just by being so earnest. do i think they should have made it? still maybe no. probably coulda gone with a different pov character to get the same gist. but at worst, it's a clumsy attempt at solidarity, not the irredeemable garbage you might expect just from reading a plot synopsis.

been watching quantum leap and im shocked how political it gets (in a good way)

i was expecting a fairly standard popcorn show with very little substance, and its not like a Serious Breakdown of Political Praxis, but it's very aggressively kind in a way i wasnt expecting. im only half a season in and we've gotten an anti-black racism episode, an anti-japanese racism episode, and several episodes about misogyny. it can be very clumsy in its execution at times ("white man leaps into the body of a black man and is outraged about racism" was never ever going to be a good idea imo), but the heart is there. it clearly is trying so hard to take this very goofy concept and use it as a megaphone to say "hey!!! stop being shitty to your fellow humans!!!" and i really admire that in a show.

[cowboyinternist]

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[transmothofaman]

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[i-am-a-giant-siphonophore]

giant siphonophores!!!

giant siphonophores are deep sea invertebrates that live in many deeper oceans all over the world, from iceland to chile!

they eat small crustaceans and small fish

siphonophores can grow up to 130 feet long!

they’re not single multi-cellular organisms, they’re actually colonies of tiny biological components called zooids!

giant siphonophores have hydrostatic skeletons

they attract pray with bright bioluminescent light!

there are over 175 species of siphonophores and they have very diverse differences

siphonophores are bioluminescent and can glow many different colours, mainly blue, red, orange, and yellow!

they’re so amazing :]

[toastshark]

Shoutouts to that one Zelda fic I read like a year (or two?) ago where Ordona, instead of glueing Link‘s arm back on after it gets cut off in the manga, decides to stick wings (and gills) on the boi instead

Idk why it randomly decided to pop into my head now of all times, but the image of Link in that spring with edgy-cool wings got stuck lmao. So uhhhh fanart for a Twilight Princess fic that may or may not still be on ao3, I suppose?

Also cw blood so I‘m putting it under a cut ^^

It started out as just a super messy doodle, then gained super messy coloring, and then it all just stacked. Not my usual style by FAR but it looks cool and the messiness fitting imo, plus letting loose like this was pretty fun!

Genuinely don‘t remember much about it (goldfish brain, sorry :( ) except the premise and that Ordona did her best, thank you very much! She doesn‘t know how humans work, how was she supposed to know getting gills and wings might not be appreciated? Link fell and drowned in her spring and now he straight up can‘t #OrdonaDidHerBest

[jays-supersonic-dynamo]

rapton with a COOL UNICORN!!!!!!! COOL ALICORN!!!!!!!! YAYY

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

WAIT A MINUTE

I’m a few days late (I completely forgot lmao) but oh my god. oh my god dude

Happy one whole year and more of my stupid blorbo project driving me absolutely bonkers (affectionate) (affectionate) (affectionate) (affectionate) (affectionate) 🥳🩵🎉🩵🎉🩵🎉

And of course a HUGE thank you for all your ongoing support. A year ago, I never expected my lil post-khux fic to snowball into so much art, 2 additional fics, and something so extensive in general, but I’m honestly really grateful that it did. It’s been so incredibly fun to make stuff for this series, and I really hope you’ll enjoy Project E once it’s done 🫶

[twilight-zoned-out]

Edwin Payne is a dweeb who gives terrible weak comebacks, who can be unnecessarily petty, or overly smug, who is inordinately pleased with himself when wearing detective gear and using scientific gear, the thought never crossing his mind that he might not look as cool as he thinks he does, who carries a continual and utter absolute delight at acting like the characters he loved to read about, who was enthralled by his magazine detective and adventure stories and who wears a similar smile when he sits on the bed watching Scooby Doo with Niko, 'these detectives are terribly clever,' whose board game collection is mostly variations of Clue, who requires payment (because any good detective is worth some kind of payment) but whose idea of payment is whatever interesting object the client offers to add to his collection, who has encyclopedic intelligence he clearly dedicated hours to learning, who has a particular way of acting and speaking like everything is of vital importance, because to him, it is.

[cityoftheangelllls]

So I have a theory about “Time Enough at Last” .

Yes, THAT episode of the original Twilight Zone series, that one episode which is most likely one of the most heartbreaking pieces of media ever conceived.

So you know how the front of the newspaper Henry Bemis was reading said “H-Bomb Capable of Total Destruction”? For me, that never really meant destruction of the entire world, per se. The episode also never explicitly states that the entire world was decimated, even though that’s the way a lot of people put it. Imagine, if you will, that only Henry’s hometown and maybe a few of the surrounding cities/towns were destroyed and their populations killed. Some time after the episode’s end, Henry is found by someone who managed to hear his cries for help earlier, and is brought to a city that is still standing in the aftermath of the nuclear war. There, Henry makes a good living as a librarian, and is initially well loved by his new community. He changes his name to one that he feels better suits his passion for reading, either because it’s something he’s always wanted to do, or something deep down tells him that his wife may have survived the blast after all and he wants to avoid being found by her again. He also decides to start wearing contacts, wanting to avoid his glasses breaking on him again, possibly unwilling to relive that trauma.

All is bliss, until, as the decades wane on, the world around him changes to a totalitarian dictatorship. Freedoms are stripped away from the people bit by bit, and those who have a trade or career that is no longer useful in this dystopian society are deemed worthless themselves and condemned to death. Several things, including books, fade into obscurity, forgotten relics of the past, and with the disappearance of books comes the closure of libraries and bookshops one by one, as they are no longer used or funded by the public. It is around this time that a certain struggling, middle-aged man, a librarian, is targeted, kidnapped, and brought to justice - or what the government perceives as justice.

This man, formerly Henry Bemis, now Romney Wordsworth, becomes known as the Obsolete Man.

[lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar]

[carefulfears]

omg rm9 was kinda fun To Me. i enjoyed mulder and scully going on a sushi date, scully being SOOOOO embarrassingly down bad for a man she’s known over 20 years, and of course the restaurant attacking them because mulder is a bad tipper. it’s also just nice to see them living life, you know??

i had a blast with rm9 tbh, a classic s11 well! have no idea what happened there! but i enjoyed myself! episode. just talked about it a bit but yes!! just seeing them living life!! literally the majority of s11 isn't even them going on cases they're just like. existing. and falling into Situations. in rm9 all they wanted to do was go to this sushi place. scully is of course always embarrassing as hell but what i loved loved loved loved about her in rm9 (and consequently throughout s11) is that last moment at the diner when they're both on their phones, and she puts hers away and just kinda leans over to his shoulder and takes his hand, and he puts his phone down.

i was so floored to see her do that, to ask for his attention like that. so much of the original series is scully...almost quietly suffocating, sometimes? being on the edge of his myopia and focus? wanting him to see her so bad, and then lashing out (READ: fucking serial killers) to either rebel, or get him to notice? but it's been a long time and he has been many more things to her since and now she just grabs his hand and makes him turn to her. in forehead sweat when she whines that he needs to feed her or she's leaving!! and then she does leave!!! in plus one when they aren't even "back together" yet, and she sneaks into his motel room and asks him to hold her.

scully in the revival has left him. she has struck out on her own, had her own career, lived on her own, been a doctor. and she's back and they're back because there's work to be done, and because, as james wong says: "She’s in love with him that way. She had a different career as a doctor, but she came back, because this is so important to him—she’s coming back to be there for him."

she's back, and they're back, because they're always choosing each other, and they've proven it, and they've done the work. she complains about his stakeouts. she cracks jokes about being sure he's on his meds!! she knows that their son is "guiding" them both, somehow. she doesn't question it.

she's embarrassingly down bad even after 25 years because she's never anything but adored him, but there's so much more availability now. she can openly check him out and invite him back into her room and giggle at him and sleep on his jacket in bars. she used to cry, every single time that he was present with her. she used to be so overwhelmed that she couldn't speak, when he was focused on her. this is the inverse reaction of the stability and peace that mulder has found, there's a steady foundation for scully to grow on.

[padfootastic]

first he replaced James as the most important person in Sirius's life and now he's taking James whole personality MAKE IT STOPPPPP

quick who’s writing the (body?) horror fic where remus is SO obsessed with sirius, he needs to have him, and knows the one and only obstacle in his life is james potter. so he plots.

he plots, gets into their group, gets close to all of them. but that’s not all. he slowly…very slowly starts replicating all of james’ personality traits, wears them like a winter cloak but all year round. and then, like the slowly boiling a frog situation, he eventually becomes james. the final step: taking over his body. getting rid of the man himself.

until all that’s left is sirius black and james-who-was-once-remus potter. but what’s an identity if u can have the man of ur dreams, the love of ur life?