#what a fantastic project

[fruityghast]

feeling Normal.

[spark-circuit]

btw, since i'm on about Kuro Heathcliff again, did anyone see this voiceline? he's all standoffish until he notices that it's about the tattoos, then you can practically hear the grin on his face

[wyervan]

would Sun be mad if i fiddled with his hair? Not in a grooming way. . . more like. . .

Would he let me grab a strand and twirl it around my finger?

Mmh! Okay—only if you guys were like, super familiar already. and he liked you. a lot. and he knew your hands were clean. Otherwise, Moonie's the only one he's comfortable with touching his hair. Anyone else tries it, and he’ll be flinching away, making excuses, and inching toward the Lysol.

If all the above is true, he quite likes having his hair played with! Twirling strands, gentle tugs, carding through his mane with your fingers. He’s lids will droop and he’ll get a dopey smile on his face 🥴. Be nearly purring in no time.

[cryptidcrocuta]

I have absolute brainrot over the idea that dalloc's twintail plugs are homage to miku and she's a big fan

bonus:

[surroundedbyconfusion]

My heart breaks every time I watch Franny Robinson tell the child version of her husband that *another* family is rejecting him

Yes, they want him! He’s so important to them. But I think she knows that to him, as he is? This is another family that doesn’t want him, that finds him lacking.

Franny met Lewis right as he met his forever parents, minutes after!! She built a large and expansive family with him, one that is loud but one that always wants each other. She knows how lonely and dejected he was at that age, how worn down he felt. How much love he had to give and how much love he felt he lacked.

Franny has to look Lewis at the age she met him and tell him this family can’t have him. She can’t even tell him why.

[greenerteacups]

One of the biggest book crimes is Harry naming his son "Albus Severus". I feel like the Marauders were done so dirty and it makes no sense to me. I hope you right this wrong in Lionheart!

I've never seen any fandom come together so unanimously to reject a writing decision with the same vehemence that they have Albus Severus (save, like, the ending of Game of Thrones). Everyone looked at it and went "weird, no thank you." Beautiful moment of unity for the fandom.

It might be realistic for the first generation after a major war, but naming all the kids after their grandparents seemed cliché to me. Rose and Hugo and Scorpius were much better, and seemed more like real names that you might pick out because you liked them. Harry doing that to honor his parents specifically because they never got to have normal and long lives is a nice gesture, but it's then weird to use the name "Albus," who lived a very long and successful life, tragic as it was. (I've sometimes tossed around the idea that Harry gives Albus II that name because he wants one of his kids to have a proper "wizarding" name, i.e. something that ties them unimpeachably to the wizarding world, rather than the muggle names given to James II and Lily II — almost an effort to cement his family as being Magic.)

But I was never going to be the right audience for the Potterlets, anyway. I'm not a fan of timeskip epilogues — they work when it's a short jump, but years (or decades) stretches it too far. Either the characters feel like strangers, or they feel the same, which is almost weirder. Which is why I've been on EWE copium since I read the books.

[talesfromthebandgeekmafia]

Properly rewatching A Court of Fey & Flowers for the first time I forgot how good this season was it’s honestly even better on the second watch

[demigodofhoolemere]

By Jove, they’ve done it. Marvel has managed to make me care about something again.

[spark-circuit]

velite needs to become either playable or a quest chain NPC and i'm not even kidding

[airenyah]

Hey so do you know where I could find this acting manifesto of yours?

I usually try and avoid publicly expressing my opinion on things like this but I recently saw some people commenting negatively on his acting again and I’m starting to doubt my own judgement.

I’ve truly never had a huge problem with his acting but I keep seeing people using really harsh words to describe his prior and current work. I genuinely think he’s doing a good job in THK but these comments sometimes make me think I’m missing something.

That conflicts with the fact I know at least three people he worked with on THK specifically had positive things to say about his acting too and I trust people who do this for a living to know what they’re talking about for the most part.

I guess I’m just looking for your post to have a more detailed perspective of the opposite viewpoint to “he’s a terrible actor” to help affirm some of my thinking so I’m more confident in my positive opinion of his acting.

Overall though I’m enjoying everyone in this show but for me I’m specifically enjoying the four mains the most. Kudos to them honestly.

(Disclaimer: Obviously everyone is entitled to their opinion but the harshness of some of the opinions took me off guard a little.)

fuck these people. they don't know shit.

(mind you. this manifesto was written based on his performance in just star in my mind and hidden agenda. his 2024 shows weren't even out at that point. in fact, thk hadn't even been publicly announced yet. you can see from the start there is talent in this boy if you actually know what to look out for)

bonus: i rant some more in the last reblog

[whileyoureinschoolidothisallday]

I freak out about OFF not having its original OST and then I go back and listen to the fnf off mod instrumentals and I remember that people have been remixing remaking and sampling this game to make fucking masterpieces that still perfectly fit the vibes of the game for the last 20yrs and we can only go up from here

[smoralcoral]

Going to have a BAD TAKE(tm) and say that, "why don't you go and make your own work, then!" should be a valid response to criticism

Like some of you are going, "this [piece of media] would be FIXED if they did [wildly different, niche interpretation of that piece of media that aligns specifically with what I think would be cool]" and... no it wouldn't!!! That's just fanfiction at that point!!! Go write your own thing!

[hellopuns]

“Pokémon aren’t supposed to be objects”

“Pokémon shouldn’t look this human it’s weird”

Gang. They are SUPER SENTAI, TOYS, AND KAIJU. They’ve been this since the beginning

[crossedwithblue]

chat is encouraging someone to step out of their comfort zone and try a technique that's much easier than it looks 'being unkind to beginners'

[o-wyrmlight]

Okay so first of all: dire wolves cannot be de-extinctioned. They are a part of a genus that went extinct over 10,000 years ago alongside them, and none of the modern members of their subtribe are remotely close enough in relation to re-evolve them. This includes both grey wolves and jackals. Despite what some people may say, dire wolves are the same amount of related to both, which is not nearly close enough to be made from either. So this whole thing about trying to bring them back is nothing more than a publicity stunt for fans of George R.R. Martin's works and other similar fantasy series because it is literally impossible with what we have left of the evolutionary tree.

Secondly. WHAT'S EVEN THE FUCKING POINT OF BRINGING THEM BACK. THEY AREN'T DOGS SO THEY CAN'T BE TAMED AS PETS BECAUSE, GET THIS, DOMESTICATION IS NOT AS SIMPLE AS TRAINING AND TAKES A FUCK TON OF EVOLUTION AND TIME. AND THEY CAN'T BE RELEASED IN THE WILD EITHER. CAN YOU FUCKING IMAGINE? THEIR PREY IS ALL EXTINCT!! THEY'D JUST BE AN INVASIVE SPECIES LITERALLY EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD!! THE ONLY THING YOU COULD DO IS SLAP THEM IN ZOOS AND A) BRINGING A SPECIES BACK TO LIVE AS NOTHING MORE THAN AN ATTRACTION TO BE GAWKED AT IS CRUEL, AND B) THAT TAKES UP SPACES IN ZOOS FOR ACTUAL CONSERVATION WORK AGAINST EXTINCTION.

Thirdly. Why are they putting so much effort into de-extincting animals from the tail end of the ice age instead of, I don't know, animals that have recently gone extinct or are at risk of extinction? They claim to be doing this with the red wolf, but actually they did it with coyotes that have red wolf genes in them instead of an actual red wolf population. Which y'know, not nearly as helpful. And on the recently extinct part, in Spain in 2003, the first ever extinct animal was actually cloned. A pyrenean ibex, which at the time had only been declared extinct three years ago. Granted, the calf did die in minutes due to lung complications, but imagine if more work had been put into making stronger, healthier clones. The species may have been saved in a short enough time span that reintroduction was possible and attainable. But no such work into the pyrenean ibex or any other recently extinct species has been made.

Fourth and last. This entire talk of "de-extinction" when we haven't even truly done that yet does nothing but give politicians and corporations reasons to no longer care about conservation, because now, in their eyes and the eyes of the general public, extinction has been made trivial. The sanctity of actual conservation work is now at risk because people can just go "what's the point of saving them? They can just be brought back later." When that isn't how it works nor how it should be. But the people in charge don't care, they only care about profits. And pretending like we can bring the extinct back from extinction makes conservation work non-profitable. Colossal has potentially fucked over an unknowable amount of species.

And also, this doesn't even begin to tap into my issues with how CRISPR cloning is done in the first place. Ever notice how every cloned animal you hear about has been a mammal? I went onto Wikipedia to find a list of all cloned animals (yeah not the most scientific but it's easy and gets me more information than I could find on my own) and there are three examples of non-mammals being cloned. Ever. One was the xenopus tadpole in 1958, next was the Asian carp in 1963, and lastly was five fruit flies in 2005. That's it. That's every time a non-mammal was cloned. Nevermind that insects are the group of animals that have faced the most extinction in recent times, and have a massive effect on the entire Earth's environment. Not a single bird or reptile, either. All land mammals too; no bats or cetaceans. There's a bias here, and it does reflect in our conversation efforts.

Anyways that's my latest Rant On Things I Have Strong Opinions About. I would probably kill it if I took biotech again.

Colossal supposedly has a study coming that proves that dire wolves are more closely related to grey wolves than we thought. Egg on my face if true, but doesn't change that they didn't make [dire] wolves this time and it doesn't negate the rest of my points. Also, I should say that I don't think they purposely designed the wolves to look exactly like the ones from ASOIAF, but they're definitely leaning into that with all the publicity stuff they're doing with George R.R. Martin. - Garb's Addendum

I feel like there's a movie franchise based on this. About how blatantly immoral it would be regardless of whether they succeeded or not. It has something to do with dinosaurs. Ever heard of it?

Literally all that I could think of reading about this entire situation is that there's a movie for this. It's called Jurassic Park, and it's specifically about the sketchy moral ethics of bringing extinct creatures back to life for human entertainment.

[kithtaehyung]

maybe RPWP needs to grow on me but it… doesn’t sound good :/ it sounds like all the producers tried to make their own sound and put it into one track

ah, damn.. i’m sorry if it didn’t sound great on first listen but man it sounds like aoty to me