#which could be Something I suppose

[icewindandboringhorror]

(also feel free in the tags to clarify Why you made the choice you made!! :0c)

[millennialdemon]

I don’t know much at all about the real Cleopatra in history, and I don’t think it much matters in watching this movie, because remember, 

But having Cleopatra, as the protagonist of a movie, be controlled by her significantly older, predatory lesbian nanny through the majority of this story is a choice I have to raise a brow at. One because she is a predatory lesbian of course, but also because she is the one that is actually driving the story. Apollodoria is the one plotting to assassinate the Roman leaders, and she trains Cleopatra to do the job for her by… teaching her how to have sex and be seductive I guess… and Cleopatra goes along with it all in order to save Egypt, since her father the pharaoh is spineless and does not even try to defy Caesar politically.

Apollodoria brings Cleopatra to a witch doctor of sorts, who performs magical plastic surgery on her to make her “the most beautiful woman ever” to the ends of ensuring she can ensnare Caesar’s interest, and Cleopatra laments this only momentarily in one line of dialogue, wherein she refers to herself as “artificial”.

Apollodoria concocts the plan to get Cleopatra into Caesar’s room to seduce and kill him, and every time Cleopatra fails to do so, Apollodoria is the one supplying her with new methods and materials to try again. She even tries to get Cleopatra to stab Caesar to death with a hidden dagger while he is distracted by his first meeting with their newborn baby. Eventually, thanks to his own hubris, Caesar meets his end being assassinated by Brutus & Co, having unknowingly survived multiple half-hearted assassination attempts by Cleopatra until that point. Once Caesar is dead, Antony enters Cleopatra’s life, and Apollodoria insists upon his death as well and creates the plan to have to him slaughtered in his fight against Octavian’s approaching army.  

Cleopatra herself really doesn’t have much cunning or ambition in this narrative. She just sort of falls in love with Roman men because they think she is ever so pretty -- and she is ever so pretty because Apollodoria made it so -- and laments their eventual deaths, more so at the hands of Apollodoria than herself. She does nothing to anyone politically, despite being the ruler of Egypt, and all of the desire to save Egypt from Roman invaders is had by Apollodoria in this story, not Cleopatra. In fact, by the end of the story, Cleopatra begs to be returned to the way she was before, and seems to be resigned to just surviving the rest of her (cut very short by Octavian) life.

One of the few times when Cleopatra decides to do something of her own volition, without any coaching or insistence by Apollodoria, it is to do with trying to win back the love of Caesar from his actual wife in Rome, Calpurnia. She breaks into their room with a gun (it’s a long, stupid story) and threatens to kill her for stealing her husband away (that’s not how that works but okay girl). She is scorned by Caesar and Calpurnia alike and abandons Rome, heartbroken. Otherwise Cleopatra spends most of this story trying to brush off Apollodoria’s requests to assassinate her Roman lovers, with no particular goals other than “be wife” in sight. She seemingly has no interest in leading Egypt at all, despite having begun this journey with Apollodoria for the sake of saving it.

Now, I did not go into a movie called Cleopatra: Queen of Sex expecting Cleopatra to be portrayed accurately or in a remotely flattering, not horrendously sexist way. It isn’t so much that I wanted Cleopatra to be a #girlboss #slaying the Roman patriarchy really – as based as that could be – my issue is more with Apollodoria’s role in this narrative, simply because there isn’t much of an internal struggle for Cleopatra to have in her self-titled movie when she is directed to do everything by a wicked old crone, is there?

[peace-hunter]

For the haunted au I had an devilish little thought. Has Optimus ever had a really bad time and when the primes try to give him advice he just shouts "you guy's FAILED!" Like for all their wisdom they couldn't beat the quintisons or see Sentinels betrayal coming?

He feels bad but in his spark he wishes HE didn't have to do what THEY couldn't.

absolutely evil thought that was inflicted upon me months ago and that i finally get to inflict upon the rest of y'all OTL

i can see it happening with the caveat that he immediately regrets saying it. but it's too late. it's the kind of thing you say in the heat of the moment and then feel the ground drop under your feet because you never meant to say it out loud. but now it's out there and you can never unsay it.

it's just. a bad situation all around :(

haunted au

[goldensunset]

when people refer to canon story-relevant kingdom hearts games as ‘spinoffs’ it makes me sad not only for the obvious reasons i always say but also bc like man i WISH this series had spinoffs. imagine what they could do if they had permission from nomura to truly go off the rails and ignore the greater canon for a second and just do some fun whimsical plotless thing in an alternate universe. imagine a fishing/boating game on destiny islands. kh fighting game. it is an injustice that we have been deprived of kingdom karts. can anyone hear me

[bunnieswithknives]

I feel bad for neglecting Hazel so much, I do have many thoughts about her.. and also a mermaid au that im probably not going to do anything with

[nattikay]

[cubbihue]

I'm curious,

If an Fairy changes court, like Upper(Fairy) to Circuit(Pixie), what happens to the Lower court(Anti-fairy) counterpart?

Do they just cease to exist? Will they come back if the change is reversed? Will they have any idea of what happened?

In addition to that, does the Leisure court(specialty fairies) have a Lower court counterpart, or is it just the Upper court that has that?

And if it's only the upper court that has that, why only them?

Besides Timmy, Pixies and Leisure fairies actually can't change courts! They're stuck the way they're born because they technically lack a living counterpart!

Leisure Fairies are bound to their specialty, while Pixies are bound to their work. But Uppers and Lowers are bound to each other, which is why they can swap places. If a fairy's counterpart dies or disappears, so does the original and vis-versa.

The only exception to this rule is if the "Binding" of the fairies are changed before the counterpart dies.

Additional fun fact! There's technically 4 Fairy "realms". They're stacked on top of each other, and it's progressively harder to get to each one the higher they are (Only Leisure Fairies can access ""Olympus"", for example). They have official names but nobody bothers to use them.

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[cradle-of-darkness]

What have you done?

based on an idea @username8746489 had where sylvie discovered nightmare fuel for the first time on accident while getting bullied by some older kids (and pushing him further into social isolation now that he's known as "that scary kid who could summon someone's worst fear")

[xxplastic-cubexx]

How would you redesign Headmaster Magneto? Just out pf curiousity because while he served it didn’t feel like… Erik.

i have to keep it 100 i have no idea without just. rerunning his original design but with a palette swap LOL but we try around here

[huginsmemory]

Thinking bout the parallels between the first and last episode and how Mabel/Dipper parallel Stan/Ford and how Dipper needs to trust Mabel to defeat the gnomes who are trying to force Mabel to become their wife/queen by pretending to agree to marry them. You know, the gnomes which have been flirting with Mabel and are ignoring her autonomy by insisting she must come with them because it's what they want. And how in the last episode Ford needs to trust Stan to defeat Bill which includes pretending to allow Bill to possess i.e. take over Ford's body (which totally can't have a sexual reading). You know, Bill who has been flirting with Ford and is ignoring his autonomy and trying to get Ford to join him (and get the equation) because that's what Bill wants. Which I'm sure doesn't have any implied subtext to it, nuh uh.

[mechieonu]

i know that disney is too big to boycott effectively but that shouldn't translate to "and so we should keep buying their products like normal" but rather "at the very least we should try"

[vaguely-concerned]

powerful mental image of lucanis expounding passionately about any given one of his limited but extremely deep areas of interest (the wyvern/knives/coffee/cooking/murder continuum of lucanis dellamorte special interests if you will) while rye lounges around and Beholds him with palpable twink boutta pounce energy

[cent-scratchnsniff]

something bad did indeed happen to that man. spent abt 25 minutes trying to find a better picture of that one (1) offical piece with his eyes open that wasnt compressed or tiny

[babymorte]

people expect you to stay around while they always put you last

[beheamothscreamoth]

Quick question for the Touchstarved fandom!! As much as we love Ais calling us 'Sparrow,' I have to ask - if you had to decide, what other bird nickname do you think he would call you/your MC? :O

For example, Ais would my Unnamed MC Daniella 'bluebird,' while he'd call my Alchemist MC Edgar 'crow' (and another OC I'm planning, Shinju, 'woodpecker!')

[dairine-bonnet]

The journey through Lynette's (aka RT's) inner world was informative, unexpected and even creepy at times. Seems that all the situations, her companions' phrases reflect her own fears and doubts, which is clear regarding her position and the responsibility she must bear. What surprised me most is that Heinrix blames Lynette for being too flirty with him and too careless for a head of the dynasty. Sadly, I didn't find out that quote of him in English but realized that in many playthroughs Heinrix asks RT if they find him a foe or a friend. So it's more about a possible betrayal, which is incredibly intriguing! (and fitting my goals and headcanon)

Do you happen to know if any other phrases here change according to the choices made before?

P.S. 'It's not litter, it's my inner world!' is brilliant! I can hear that annoyance in Lynette's voice.) Yrliet is such... Yrliet...