#we're still thinking about it here!!

[xxplastic-cubexx]

something about first impressions idk

bonus:

[overnightheartbeats]

Watching his friend jump back into his old work without a hitch was amusing. Isaac couldn't lie, he had missed having him around at work, though they had all been very supportive of his decision to retire. Isaac had been tempted to ask for details, why now? But, he recalled Laurel pulling him aside at some point and practically making him promise to not question it or try dissuading him. That's really all he needed to know. Besides, he did seem pretty content with his new work and Isaac got to say his best friend was a firefighter. Win, win scenario except for now. He raised an eyebrow at the comment, frankly, he couldn't picture a world where he's running a background check on that girl or vice versa. Again, Isaac definitely used the worst example. He had a point though, he was willing to do it and Isaac should've done the same for Jazz. No matter what. "I guess so, can't picture you two doing all that, but you're right. I should've stuck to the paranoid bit. Hey, you can still blame them for shit, even more, if you don't know them. It's not like they'll come out of the woodwork to contradict you," he shrugged casually. It's something he had done, once or twice. Blame his deceased parents for whatever he was angry about at the time. Not great, he knew.

His head fell back, focusing on the ceiling for a moment, before looking back at Eli. "Appreciate you man, but it's not about being a hermit. It's not lost on me, the danger I'm putting you all in because I decided to try something as silly as love, the genuine way. Instead of taking precautions and being smart." The basics of his job, and he neglected it. "I'll need to reevaluate a lot, probably go back to basic training with the new recruits," he muttered. Isaac always took pride in his work and the work it took to get there. "And if this takes a turn for the worse, I'll need to confess my stupidity to the unit chief. Loop them in, probably." A dry chuckle escaped him, of course he always knew what to say. It was a fair point. Looking back, he had a good streak for bringing people into his life. "Nettie, true. I might still be redeemable there."

He nodded as a knowing smile tugged on his lips. Isaac knew they technically weren't a team anymore, not in the professional sense, but seeing his friend's smile at the mention was worth it each time. Even though she was now assigned to someone else, the real team was still here in this apartment. "I know she feels the same way." It was hard to not feel a twinge of envy at the connection. That's what he wanted. Not a work partner, but a true partner in life. Someone he could truly be open with, rely on, and be there for. It's what he had hoped for when he dove in with Jazz, not the exact same way, but the idea of building something with someone, it was intriguing him to say the least. "Project Christmas, yeah I'll have to do a thorough deep dive into her now. Good point there. She maybe well-trained, but so are we." And whatever he lacked, he hoped his friends could make up for it.

"Lying about the job pays off sometimes." Isaac stood up from his chair, though he still felt out of the loop. He knew that he could only continue feeling this way in this room. Once he stepped out and went back to her, everything had to be as it was. They couldn't afford to alert her. "Williams is leaning towards leadership change, strike when they're weak or distracted kind of situation. Knowing what we know now, that seems obvious. Here I thought she was just passionate about it and I was losing my convincing power. It's uh...Lotus...something." Lotusland? He couldn't be sure, but Eli was very quick to discard the places on the list, "that one fits, agree. I can't go, for obvious reasons, but might be time for you all to get your yoga in. Maybe Laurel, play on that pending friendship thing. Jazz swears she doesn't like her, so could be an in if she's pretending." A shake of his head, chuckling at the tv cable. "Wouldn't dream of messing with her tv, I'll fix the cable. As promised. I assume dinner is cancelled, so I'll just go drop her off. We can regroup afterwards?"

-

Heading back to Jazz was the slowest walk he ever did, full of sighs and practicing his smile. Back to action. He knocked on the door, and walked back inside. "Hey, sorry I left you here. That tv cable made me look very dumb, but I finally got it. What do you say, we head out to your place instead and grab dinner on the way?"

To say Eli missed the intrigue of being a spy would be an understatement but he also felt like he retired at the right time. His head wasn't in it. His heart wasn't in it. Since he died everything changed and with that the career change happened as well. Not looking up at Issac since he was busy keeping an eye on the laptop he hummed in response. "I mean, if I didn't know laurel and we were dating then yes I think I would have background checked her. Surface stuff but I'm also paranoid and that is unfortunately how I was born. I'd blame parents if I knew them." He had to raise his head to just give him one look. "Come on man. Family looks out for each other. This is not the thing that will make you turn into a hermit. I hope you know that we will not let that happen. Also, if we are being frank, you chose Nettie as your friends with benefits so you haven't completely lost your touch. Jazz might just be the one bad apple in the bunch."

A formidable team made him smile. He would always say Laurel was the better agent, she always had been. But being her partner for so long and being referred to as a team still made him proud. "No one else I'd rather have watch my six." That went beyond actually being romantically involved. He was always her biggest fan. "Hey, you're not stupid. Knock that thought out of your head. She's well trained. She knows what areas to work on. Remember Project Christmas, the US had sent out those standardized tests to see which kids would be able to be trained as sleeper spies? Jazz could have been one of those kids." Not that he knew for a fact but something his mind had come up with on the spot.

"Really glad you didn't. We'd have lost the upper hand." He stated as he refrained from letting out a sigh. Hearing that there was movement he couldn't help but feel on edge. "Key players coming out of the woodwork. Either they're changing leaders or trying to take over someone's territory. She never misses yoga. That makes me think that could be the spot where she meets her handler. Pick a place that most people would overlook. What's the name of the yoga place?" He didn't need to look very far, Texas only had a few within the mile radius. "There's three that are between warehouses, that is too obvious. Backdoors would be a thing. It has to be something that hides in plain sight. Like," he scrolled further and saw the one that was sandwiched between a pottery shop and a malt shop. "This one. There's no point of entry on either side. You'd have to walk out the studio to get into either of these stores. Seems like we found our target. Hang for a second." He got up and got his switchblade and cut the tv cable that hung near the wall. "Can't forget to fix the cable. If Laurel misses her night time shows there will be hell to pay."

[front-facing-pokemon]

[frobby]

mc when they go into a book and fuck shit up: why is the story different!!!

My brother in christ YOU CHANGED THE STORY!!!!!

[a2zillustration]

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[egophiliac]

I have a question about the jp server pickups, since I really want knight Sebek, but I’m trying to save gems for bloom malleus + the 3rd tsum event that’s gonna show up sooner or later. Iirc, after knight Sebek, the next story update’s pickup had all of the previous story cards (ie cerberus Ortho, general Lilia, and knight Sebek). Is this true, and if it is, did it include a token system like the dorm pickups where you can just do 100 pulls and then buy the specific card you want directly? Because if that is how it works, then I can wait until then and be sure I won’t have to go to 200 for him.

we did indeed get a second chance at those three when 7-7 came out! I'm pretty sure there was not a token system -- though admittedly I don't 100% remember, sorry! 🙇 I took a quick search through some past posts/videos from people who tend to include the gacha and news stuff, but I didn't see any mention of it, so I'm inclined to think there really wasn't one. :( they were all separate pickups with their own pull counts rather than a combined one, if that info helps at all.

speaking as a strict f2p who hoards keys/gems like the lovechild of a dragon and a magpie, given the choice between saving for a story card and a birthday card, I'd go for story -- it does require a lot of patience, but there are way more opportunities to get past birthday cards, both from the anniversary events and the rerun pickups! tsums is a bit harder to say anything on because Eng doesn't follow the same event schedule, but it's a longish event and those pickups let you have a free 10-roll, so I think they're also a bit easier to save up for.

(ALSO speaking of free rolls, starting with the fifth round of birthdays -- the kutsurogi my room ones -- the birthday boy/union jacket/bloom cards have had a separate pickup that you can get two free 10-pulls at by doing missions! I got a bloom Jade from it a couple weeks ago. :D meanwhile general Lilia is the only story card I've ever managed to pull, so...I'm probably kinda biased. whoops.)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

years later someone buys the plot, turns on the lights and is suddenly worshipped as a sun god by a bunch of puppets falling apart at the seams

pov you break into the spooky abandoned Playfellow Studios building for shits and giggles

[cool-chocolatebouquet]

What if two big strong former leaders of a team of color coded ninjas with a love of food and protective and caring natures and dad issues and who have gotten mind controlled at least once interacted with each other?

Looking at my interest of 10+ years vs my interest of about a year and a half . . . I have a type of favorite character methinks

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

Legends of Tomorrow not getting a renewal is my villain origin story. Anyway... some warmup doodles of Spooner from today and yesterday!

little bonus: They have a lot in common actually. (I have a type)

[anghraine]

Fun fact: Imrahil of Dol Amroth is only ever described in LOTR as Denethor and Faramir's "kinsman", with no distinction ever made between how he's related to Denethor vs to Faramir. It's only later, when Faramir briefly thinks of his long-dead mother, that she is called "Finduilas of Amroth" and we can deduce that the family connection was likely between Denethor's wife and Imrahil, making him an in-law of Denethor but blood relative of Faramir. We're still not told exactly how Imrahil and Finduilas were related, though.

I always had the impression of a certain degree of tension between Imrahil and Denethor, and also of Imrahil being particularly concerned for Faramir, but his exact relationships with them are quite vague in the narrative. A lot of the names, dates, and family connections among the members of the house of Dol Amroth that we now accept as a matter of course are mainly from a separate document published in Peoples of Middle-earth that explains the most probable origin story for the house of Dol Amroth and has an attached family tree. IIRC the entire existence of Faramir and Éowyn's son Elboron is based on his inclusion in the Dol Amroth family tree in POME and he's never referenced in LOTR (and possibly not in anything else, actually?).

Tolkien definitely did imagine Imrahil and Finduilas as siblings regardless (e.g. I think he mentions it when observing that Denethor's natural beardlessness as an Elrosian Dúnadan would be reinforced in Boromir and Faramir by their additional Elvish heritage through Imrahil's sister), but he didn't actually say it in LOTR.

I do think it's important, though, because it's with this later information that Imrahil taking charge of Faramir's fallen body is conclusively revealed to not be simply a prince rescuing a vague "kinsman" of political/military importance, but specifically a man carrying his dead sister's last surviving child from a battlefield.

(No wonder he and Éomer bonded so much, honestly!)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

sequel to this ramble cause the way james talks bout the reduced cherik scenes throughout the xmen films in this video is making me want to kill people. 'we'll always have paris darling' what if we all blew up.

[carlyraejepsans]

i think i might be legit happy for the first time in my life.

i got out. i actually got out.

[dyaz-stories]

i'm actually going to be so upset if we don't see anyone mourning gojo

like so far we haven't seen anyone care? we haven't seen anyone be even a little sad or grateful for his death. what do you mean he wrote them letters and nobara went 'yuck' and megumi said 'let's get this over with' i'm losing my fucking mind

like if a character that's this important disappears from your story you can't just. sweep it under the rug. like when jiraiya and ace die we saw everyone grieving their loss because they mattered to people.

doesn't gojo deserve that too?

[esmes]

look at me baby, dead in my eyes it's the end of our holiday, but it isn't goodbye carry me with you all of the time eat of me baby, skin to the bone body on body, until I'm all gone but I'm with you, inside

🎥 @theriddletrades

[lovegrowsart]

the argument i keep seeing that the choice qimir gives to osha to leave the island in episode six isn't a "real choice" because in the real world it'd maybe be realistically logistically/physically difficult to cross that body of water is driving me up the wall because it's such literal thinking when star wars has never been and will never be concerned with what's realistic or logistically plausible. there's fire in space in the first episode of the show, because fire needed to be there to give osha that moment of flashback to the trauma of her childhood and help further establish her character - it's entirely in service to the story, doesn't matter that that's not how it works irl.

the reason the ship is there is because it needed to be in the distance to facilitate the visual storytelling - osha looking back at the ship, her chance to flee/escape the underworld, then looking back at qimir walking away off screen and making the choice to follow him. that's literally (heh) it. he even suggests waiting for low tide if she wants an easier time of it if we're gonna be that concerned about how oh so terribly hard it'd be for osha - who is an adult ex jedi and a mechanic that does such dangerous jobs on space ships that the republic legit made it illegal for anyone but droids to do them - to manage a bit of a difficult swim :(

ymmv on the qimir being manipulative angle, but i think it'd benefit a lot of people's understanding of the dynamic between osha and qimir in episode six to remember that star wars is fairytale - it is metaphorical and psychological mythology. it is not realistic or grounded in reality, nor is it meant to be read with realism in mind, because then you're simply analysing/critiquing from a position that the story isn't operating from.

you don't have to take a creator's words into consideration when developing your own interpretation, but such things can be helpful and valuable. leslye headland's made her intentions re: osha and qimir's dynamic pretty clear - that it's not meant to be manipulative, that one of the purposes of episode six was to explore qimir's "lighter" side and osha's "darker" side (hence the wholly unsubtle costuming choices, him in natural-looking off-white and osha entirely in solid grey). while qimir isn't being wholly honest with her right off the bat (cause why would he be?), he also isn't deceiving or tricking her about anything re: who he is and what he's about - how could he? she knows his face. she knows entirely what he's capable of and what he did in episode five. he can't play the master and the fool the way he did with mae, he can only be as honest as a man like him can be if he wants her to listen to him. i don't think she's naive about him at all, and i think people struggle with understanding that - that she doesn't have any illusions about his morality or lack thereof - and understanding that she still has the agency and desire to listen to what he has to say. you can believe it isn't "good" for her to listen to him, sure, but that doesn't mean she's being maliciously manipulated maliciously.

[towerofbabybell]

do you think david caught himself staring at jonathan's back muscles while he was arching for way longer than he should've