#where have I heard that line before

[hotvampireadjacent]

I’ve been reading king Leopold’s ghost. One line stands out to me

“After the protests against Leopold’s rule began in Europe, the Congo state had periodically made a big show of prosecuting low ranking white officials for atrocities against Africans. Occasionally the convinced men were sentenced to prison terms, although most of them were released after serving only a fraction of their time (219)

[sailforvalinor]

Watching Bumblebee (2018) suddenly made me remember my favorite moment in all of Transformers media and now I cannot stop thinking about it:

(MAJOR spoilers for Transformers: Prime, but honestly, it’s worth it)

[viideo-kidd]

Sherlock "oopsie..there's a lie" Holmes 🤝 Jonathan "Helen...was that a lie?" Sims

[ghostdnfie]

bro okay the funniest thing just happened i was watching the princess and the frog (bc i haven't watched it since i was like. 6 maybe?) and then that song came up that goes 'i got voodoo i got hoodoo i got things i aint even tried' and i instantly got smiletwt flashbacks 😭😭

[sovonight]

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[5eraphim]

Hind of an odd question but how did you get into tf2 in the first place

i can actually tell u exactly when i really got into it bc i so vividly remember the exact day it clicked with me-

November 15th, 2022

i was having a mental breakdown in a roach motel (all i could afford on my own at the time) in austin, texas and i was going through a post-manic depressive episode, hadn't slept in 3 days straight, and was feeling all scared about the future, a romantic relationship was falling apart, and i was so far away from home, austin is literally on the other end of the country relative to home (and like it's a long story but by GOD was i goin through it-)

anyway, it was late at night and i was curled up in the fetal position in bed sort of staring at the wall while youtube was playing on the desk in the background. a video from a channel i followed for ages was talking about overwatch two bombing hard, and kept refrencing TF2 as a good counter-alternative and, by chance, youtube autoplayed a compilation of the "meet the team" videos after and like, watching that was the first thing to make me laugh audibly since i got to austin.

i deadass had NO idea TF2 was one of the biggest video game franchises of all time (somehow) and fell down rabbithole of lore videos, twitter meme accounts and like, really found this beautiful little community and one i wanted to join when i got access to my pc again.

like i realize this might sound kinda pathetic, but it was something i could hold onto, if that makes sense? and remind myself "life isn't pure hell, there are more good things to discover and enjoy" and it's what finally got me back into posting fandom writing on tumblr since a 3 year hiatus.

and heeeere we are today :')

[caterpillarinacave]

my world has been flipped over

[ratatatastic]

our beat baiting guys to praise other guys on this edition of lets get the rookie in on this and can you fucking guess who he brings up

vegas golden knights @ florida panthers pregame interview | 10.19.24 (x)

[suffercerebral]

i wonder if my ex best friend remembers my birthday every year the way i remember hers

[diluc33rpm]

the romance/relationship system in bg3 is genuinely some of the worst designed shit i've ever seen in any game with that feature but at least the memes we get out of it are funny. once saw someone comment something along the lines of 'patch note: waving at gale will no longer cause him to buy a house for the two of you to retire in' and i've never recovered since

[blujayonthewing]

justin and I were talking the other day about whether/ how melliwyk might fit in and interact with other parties, and it was just a silly passing concept but I realized it's really hard to transplant melliwyk into another dnd setting because she's so fundamentally built into hers

she'd dedicated her life to artificing specifically because it wasn't possible in her world! she's a wizard and a transmutation specialist because it's the field of magic that deals the most with imbuing mundane objects with magic, even if temporarily; she took up adventuring because she'd hit the limit of what known history and theory and experimentation could teach her, and was hoping to make some discovery in fieldwork that would lead to a breakthrough; she's only now An Artificer [player class] because she invented it herself after having someone from a lost world teach her how to craft magic items

'would simon and melliwyk get along' hang on I can't even play in this space because I LITERALLY don't even know whether she's also an artificer in this context

[miraculousbohemian]

"Until next time, Xena"

"Oh, you think there's gonna be one?" -Ares and Xena, S6EP20

vs

"You were lucky. Next time-"

"There won't be a next time, Xena." -Tony and Gamora, S2EP4

[paralianprince]

@islandiis continued from here!

[sms]:  OH hold on

[sms]:  wow alright my offer to do all your chores for you mustve been like even weirder than i was worried it would sound, well done me

[sms]:  srry someone gave me your number ages & ages ago.  this is Sea, based just to the southwesterly of the lands of freezing ones ears off

[sms]:  anyway!!  hi !  i figured itd be a bit silly to go all that way without yknow askin first so i sort of got ahead of myself

[himblebo]

The absolute thrill of listening to a musical in the language you’re learning and gradually with each listen you understand more of it and it stops sounding like gibberish

[avvocarlo]

it's insane the place is pretty much a direct upgrade despite actually being technically cheaper. where we lived was already desirable yet Uhhh idk Gritty? which had pros and cons. anyway my point is we already had a good spot, yet this is even better

[david-watts]

I really am beginning to get murderous impulses