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This is going to sound negative, but I think Snuff deserves to be the last Discworld book. I mean, Raising Steam is good in certain ways, a fond elegy to the characters and plots a reader has come to know so well. I don't even object to the visceral pleasure of the earlier novels giving way to something diffuse, harder to pin down. (Unseen Academicals felt like this---a wonderful novel, but not actually a victory; just a plot that rearranged matters in an interesting way.) But there's a sort of...ill magic setting in, by the time you get to the scene where Vetinari gives medals to our wonderful shining heroes of the railway.
Namely, they're too good at this.
Vimes uses the Summoning Dark multiple times, and without even the terrified self-doubt he was showing in Snuff. (I have other issues with Snuff, but that was an interesting thread to pull.) Vetinari not-too-discretely points the Black Clerks at a problem, and it is solved; when necessary, he goes undercover working on something he personally considers vaguely distasteful, and yet becomes the center of a folk song. Moist neither sleeps, nor eats nor makes love to his wife (except sometimes, too rarely in his opinion) but rushes all over doing the railways' job for---what? for why?
They're too good, they've climbed too high; Vimes and Vetinari are edging into myth while still being alive, and Moist was already half of a song anyway, has been since he put on the golden suit.
I'm not saying it's not an interesting setup, because strangely it is. But it feels like the start of something, not closure at all, because what else is Discworld good for if not to tackle the fact that everything glowy and laden with awe will not remain such. Because, you know, that's how the world works.
#I don't know if I'm going to read shepherd's crown. if I read that it will be over.#if I never do; it never will.#but I think it would be interesting to pick up from exactly here. to understand that the next generation comes from this.#and what could ankh-morpork's children possibly make#of all this sacrosanct Progress bequeathed to them by their demigod mothers and fathers?#like....what do you do if your dad can just call up an ancient deity from beyond the dawn of time and get information from it#without thinking twice?#you're the daughter of a man who is widely recognized to be a criminal; formerly dead; richer than god#and de facto controls half the city. what do you do? what CAN you do?#how do you become an adult when your parent literally blots out some of the sky?#anyway. thoughts for a friday.#discworld
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Guys. Guys they’re miners. They’re tiny cogless miners. Guys
I blacked out and filled the whole three canvases with sketches of them being itty bitty goobers. Figured Imma show you some haha
#maccadam#transformers#prowl#jazz#tf one#transformers one#tf one jazz#tf one prowl#jazzprowl#<- if you want it to be haha#I can’t stop thinking#like#I check ao3 very regularly and#okay bruh just. I know the movie absolutely wasnt about Jazz nor Prowl but I still feel the urge to write something about them#just like. slice of life thing but considering their life is kinda sucks because of the whole no-cog thing#Jazz talks smth like twice for the whole movie and Prowl doesn’t talk at all. That’s a lot of creative freedom to write haha#I want them to do their classic stealth missions type of shit but this time without any actual support from any kind of system#you get me#they both usually have some kind of command structure behind them. I want them to be absolutely broke low class tiny goobers#and still manage to pull their usual shady crazy stuff#idk#something like that
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wanderer's adventures in sumeru
THANK YOU FOR 70 FOLLOWERS BY THE WAY!! some news, i made an offical art twitter account! 🥳 its @/marsunshi and i linked it, right now im focused on genshin there and will be a lot more active, but im still going to try and post mcsm content here because i have Many wips ^^ i also have my ao3 linked there and i have a few drafts of mcsm works that i might post at some point..who knows
#i love the idea of scara learning to allow himself to do things without thinking twice#picking flowers for nahida and asking tighnaris advice#actually conversating#sword dancing with nilou#he doesnt have anything to be defensive about anymore so he learns to just Be#his healing process is directly tied to sumeru and i want to see more of how he interacts with it's people#when hes not fighting them or launching them across field (ahem ahem interdarshan championship)#genshin#genshin impact#wanderer#scaramouche#kaveh#nilou#dehya#tighnari#doodle#scara in the first one can either be feeling guilty about shocking tnri in the AQ or wishing he could do it again in that moment#its up for interpretation
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Anyway. Bi and Mspec Lesbians aren't a hotly "debated" topic or even new to queer culture, it's just the newest thing that bullies who REALLY want to be homophobic and even racist use to justify harassing gay people they don't like.
It's the thinnest possible veneer of progressive language wrapped around TERF and reactionary rhetoric so that they can feel righteous for forming an angry mob against vulnerable targets. If you're gullible enough to fall for the newest wave of bigotry within the queer community, and turn on your allies because they're "confusing" or "invading your spaces," the SAME way they turned on bi/pan labels, trans people, xenogenders, neopronouns, and aroace people before this, then get lost.
#No patience. Wither and rot.#These motherfuckers dogpiled the legend who leaked the no fly list because it identified as the wrong type of lesbian.#They will attack the people doing DIRECT ACTION over dumbfuck label discourse. Deeply unserious people.#Embarrassing to think that there are rubes out there who keep falling for this#For ALL our sakes I hope this is literally their first rodeos and they really haven't fallen for this bullshit twice.#But unfortunately I'm too old to be that hopeful.#I didn't get to see the big ''public block list'' made for us dirty queers who support or are bi/mspec lesbians but I hope I was on it#If a man is best judged by his enemies then exclusionists who echo terf rhetoric are the ones I WANT to have.#And ''public lesbian block list'' is in quotes because if you REALLY thought that such a thing wasn't a ''GO HARASS THESE PEOPLE'' charter-#--then you have a black mold where your brain used to be and it's rapidly eating into the bathroom tile you call a skull#Unironically you should not have a platform if you are THAT stupid or malicious to think it was anything BUT a harassment charter#I hope they're ashamed.#Context for those unaware: a flesh-eating amoeba created a public blocklist for people who supported bi lesbians#Minors and extremely small creators without big platforms were on that list#People got harassed but the most namely was Lockandkeyhyena who had people raiding his server with racial slurs and death threats.#I hope everyone involved sees who their ''allies'' are when they spread that sentiment.#A bunch of people ACTUALLY 'invading someone's space' to post the n-word and suicidebait.#THAT is who you appeal to. Sit with that.
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Clockwork sees how stressed Danny is from trying to be the goodest boy and never do anything remotely bad that could turn him evil and thinks he may have overdone it. At this rate his panic over never doing anything evil is going to force him to emotionally burn out and stop caring. Then he'll turn evil anyway.
So Clocky does something that sounds completely ridiculous in theory. He scoops Danny up and drops him into a universe full of superheros and villains and tells him to "Do whatever you want. There will be no consequences for you." Then he leaves.
And just like that, Danny goes apeshit. He decides to do the one thing he always wanted to do but was too afraid to because he didn't want to be judged, or worse, forced to join his parents.
He becomes a supervillian. Not as Phantom, no. But as Fenton! He goes full super genius mad scientist and terrorizes whatever city he's in. The local superhero is being driven insane as Danny builds death rays, shrink rays, his own modified version of the GAV, ect.
The best part if that the local heros can never catch him for long and when he is caught he always escapes before he is transported to whatever facility they wanted him in. He always ends up back in his home dimension where he goes back to acting normal and no one from either human dimension or the Infinite Realms knows what he's up to (except the stop watch of course)
After a particularly fun day in which Danny highjacks all broadcasting services to teach everyone in the world how to make insulin at home so you didn't have to pay a ridiculous amount for necessary medication, the Justice League was now on his tail.
Danny just laughs, thinking there's no way they'd ever be able to arrest him. Little does he know some guy calling himself Batman is leading the mission and he has no intention of arresting him. Danny, much to his horror, becomes far to familiar with adoption papers. As in he keeps having to set them on fire.
#fanfiction prompts#prompts#danny phantom#danny fenton#dp x dc#batman#bruce wayne#batman: a child with black hair and blue eyes#batman: with no parents in sight#batman: causing mayhem all around him while doing good in the world#batman: and outsmarting everyone who tries to catch him without using a single superpower#batman: i must adopt#tim hopes this one wont try to murder him#jason dramatically whispers to Danny telling him to run and Danny doesnt think twice#so many shenanigans#danny has his own secret underground laboratory and steals so much stuff from his parents#poor damian gets targetted by danny a lot because he thinks its fun to rile him up#tw: cussing
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I mean his lap is practically saying "sit here" , @sydneyinacoma
#jose pedro balmaceda pascal#pedro pascal fandom#pedro pascal characters#pedro pascal#pedropascal#pedropascaledit#ppascaledit#javier peña#narcos#joel miller#tlou joel#ezra prospect#no lies were told#i would sit on that lap without thinking twice#my gifs#dingogifs#softiedingo
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discussion: would gale accept only getting a few decades with his partner because he’s a squishy human OR would he go the lich route a la barry bluejeans
#ramble#bg3#gale dekarios#today i realised that gale would only get 40-60 years with cyra and she’d have centuries without him and i got sad#i’m v curious what everyone else thinks???#bc on one hand he was very willing to just explode but that was probably a guilt thing?#but also i feel like. he wants to do more stuff#maybe i’m just not over barold j. bluejeans turning himself into the essence of his magic to be with his elf wife forever idk#if i had a nickel for every time i became deranged over a human wizard with a rabid elf wife with red hair#i’d have 2 nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice
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remember this?
chapte 220
remember how we we were robbed of spinner narrating the mva arc? bc i do and i'm still mad about it
for those who don't remember or haven't watch the anime: in the anime, izuku also narrate the mva even though it's spinner in the manga
i want to give the benefit of the doubt to those who worked on the anime. at first i didn't understand why spinner was the narrator either as he didn't seem like an important character
but now that mha is over, it's seems obvious that this narration was hinting at spinner's book, if not a part of the book itself
this entire arc is basically "yeah we're villains but we're also people and we care about each other, here's our story". so it doesn't make sense that izuku narrates it, but it does for spinner. his league was his reason to be, he let himself get mutilated/tortured/whatever you wanna call what afo did to him in the final arc for the league, and especially for shigaraki
so yeah, i wish we could have gotten narrator spinner
#atlas thinking ☆#and don't even get me started on the giran erasure#we were ROBBED#chapter 219 was his time to shine#and it just got deleted without any mention of the BEST monologue in the entire story#can you tell i love giran?#mha#bnha#my hero academia#boku no hero academia#dabi#todoroki touya#league of villains#shigaraki tomura#shimura tenko#spinner#shuichi iguchi#toga himiko#twice#mr compress#lov#kurogiri#my villain academia
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big fan of these two
#alek art#lego ninjago#ninjago#ninjago dragons rising#(this is my post merge zane design)#pixal borg#zane julien#2024#i cant think of anything else to tag as. not intended as ship but idrc lol#go crazy be free#sick to my stomach about how attached he is to her. in s7 he about lost his mind and now here we are. talking to brooms#smthn about how zane gets really attached to people (when his father died he died with him . twice) and how pixal struggles to find an#identity for herself that isnt an assistant bc thats what shes made for . she was scared to tell zane she didnt like being in his head lol#girl who wants alone time vs boy who will explode if hes without company#if i said bpder zane#i love pixal idk if ive talked about this
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Every time I feel insecure about how I draw I just look back at my old drawings from almost 4 years ago.
#I think I drew that around April of 2020#I'm still trying to develop my ideal art style but my improvement allows me to draw more confidently without worrying about it#And I'm still drawing springtrap to this day (I've only drawn him twice in 2020)#I wish I drew more fnaf back then cuz I would've loved to see my progress but I felt insecure back in 2014-17#All my older fnaf art was digital but I lost my old phone along with the drawings </3#SAVE YOUR OLD ART I PROMISE YOU'LL LOVE THE IMPROVEMENTS#fnaf#five nights at freddys#springtrap#william afton
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Daniel Ricciardo talks about fame and attention after Drive to Survive
#DADDY LONG DICK JUST LANDED BACK IN LA#good day to remind the bitches that dts wouldn’t have existed without him. a good percentage of f1blr is here literally bc of him#he changed people's actual life trajectories#for example these two fuckers were d list actors before watching dts and bc of DANIEL they are now career podcasters#THINK TWICE.#daniel ricciardo#f1#*#podcast#**
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you ever think about how Misa's lack of intelligence and the way she lets her emotions impulsively dictate her actions was kinda constantly made the butt of the joke in DN, yet she genuinely outlived all the dudes and dudettes who were always scoffing at her stupidity. Somehow this is even better to me in that she wasn't even trying to outlive Light and didn't have any particularly high regard for her own life, so it's not due to her secretly being the best strategist of them all intentionally either... Regardless of the author's intent behind it I like that it pokes some holes in their constant smug assertions that you must have the very highest IQ to be the last guy standing in the murder notebook game
#and unfortunately no i dont believe ohba would give her any props for that if you asked him about it#but i love thinking about it and i think she was a geniune serious threat in their games#basically the entire time and often BECAUSE she was so impulsive and emotional and reckless and not afraid to wear her heart on her sleeve#the stuff she got dismissed and patronized and mocked for the most#i also love the irony of the fact that she was probably one of the characters least attached to her own life as something valuable#she halved her own lifespan twice and said she 'didn't want to live in a world without light'#it goes well with how basically everything in this universe is cruelly ironic in some way#not to mention the two separate shinigami sacrificing their lifespans to extend hers when she didnt even value her own life#misa amane#death note#p
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Did you think I was done? Ahahahaha no, I have more.
Because chapter 70 of MOMU gave me the very dynamic between them that I missed so much, I just blacked out and started drawing uncontrollably lmao
Also. ALSO. I noticed a while ago that Prowl has the habit of..like…constantly frowning. So. I did a bit of research and made this graph.
In 70 chapters, Prowl frowns rougly 104 times. And the intensity of this gesture is very clearly correlated with the development of his relationship with Jazz, as you can see ahahahahah It might be wrong tho don’t take me seriously I’m not good with graphs
#maccadam#transformers#prowl#jazz#jazzprowl#fic fanart#momu fanart#I just#mmmmm#For the whole fic Prowl had to think twice about everything Jazz says#every information could end up being wrong#sometimes even without Jazz realising it#so when Prowl says#he’s trusting Jazz. it’s.#also it totally wasn’t me googling ‘believing and trusting nuance difference in english’#the moment I realised the difference I think my brain started rollercoaster loops#he can’t believe him but he found enough faith to trust him#while. YES. For the whole story Jazz couldn’t fucking be believed#list e n#Jazz did a lot of things for Prowl#fucktons of big and small gestures to show that yes he likes loves and appreciates Prowl#I’m so happy Prowl is returning this energy#like#remember that scene a while back when Jazz kissed Prowl? Cool cool okay. Did Prowl kiss him? nope. It was one sided gestures#*gesture. That kiss didn’t make me feel like it’s truly something precious because Jazz started it but Prowl didn’t do quite the same#but this👆. This feels so much more important for me. Because Prowl#who is for the whole story was mister I calculate every chance of possible betrayal. Prowl whos entire personality is to trust nobody#Prowl goes. Fuck that I trust you. You feel me?#it wouldn’t be the same if he said I love you. Because love is very much something you don’t have a lot of control over.#but to trust someone? It’s a choice Prowl had to consciously make. You see what I mean? I love it. oh fuck I ran out of tags..
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y'all ever think abt how it was julie having the affair and it is even said multiple times that she was the one who left him, yet wilson was still the one who left their home and moved in with house. like. he couldn't bear to stay in their home alone. he immediately ran to house and stayed on his couch for weeks. suffered through his pranks and his laziness and his manipulation. telling him he wants him gone while sabotaging his attempts to leave. and he only left once he got a girlfriend again.
#chyanne speaks#house md#hilson#hate crimes md#gregory house#james wilson#i think his inability to be alone is such an interesting quality of his that isnt touched on enough#like yes we all haha at his long string of unsuccessful relationships but we dont talk abt it all stemming from his inability to be alone#his first wife leaves him and then he remarried quickly#he cheats on the second wife and remarries quickly#the third wife cheats on him and leaves him and he immediately moves in with house#and then starts dating a patient and immediately moves in with her#but!!! then he moves into the hotel and is alone for like almost a year! and honestly he NEEDED IT#bc GROWTH happened in that year and he meets someone who doesn't fit his M.O. who breaks away from the mold#although he does immediately move in with her too but still. amber was different. she was the step in the right direction#and then she dies.#and then wilson throws himself into the left field. everything needs to change. he's spent so long fearing being alone.#so he tries to leave so he is completely and totally alone without house to fall back on#but house needs him. he needs him too much. they need each other too much.#and he falls back to house again. and he's content that way. he's always the most content when he's with house. always feels the least alone#and then sam comes back into his life and ruins e v e r y t h i n g#he falls right back onto those old patterns. kicks house out and moves her in. and then what happens??? of course??? she leaves him. again.#and then he's alone again and it hurts. he gets a cat that we only hear about twice and then never gets brought up again#but wilson has his kitty. he has house. he's not alone. he can be content.#and then house fucks everything up. he goes to prison. wilson is alone again.#im honestly SHOCKED that wilson didnt remarry in that year they were apart but he was rly trying to change!#he was working on himself and trying to make changed he thought would be good for him#and then house comes back. and house won't LET wilson be alone. he wont leave him alone.#and it's exactly what wilson has been yearning for since the day he drove that car into cuddys house#and in the end. as long as he had house that was all that mattered. as long as he had house he wasn't alone.
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not enough TimJay content takes advantage of the fact that the Red Robin mantle and suit were Jason's first, and Tim effectively stole Jason's shit that Jason wanted to throw away. Tim took Jason's name, his suit, to go on a one-man crusade when he's at odds with the Batfamily. You're telling me Jason wouldn't be weirdly offended but also weirdly turned on by that?
robin (1993) #177
robin (1993) #178
And yes, Tim only knows about the Red Robin suit's existence because Ulysses Armstrong stole it for a hot second, but the fact he stole the suit from Ulysses and fucking kept it? Even before he had any reason to? Like before becoming Red Robin, Tim just kept a suit he knew belonged to Jason despite openly disliking Jason for. Reasons. And later on, it's explicitly confirmed Tim's wearing it because it's Jason's legacy? That's the most toxic gay shit I've ever seen.
adventure comics (2009) #3
Tim's punishing himself with Jason's image. Jason, who has been constantly trying to get Tim to see things his way and work with him would lose his mind over that. There's such a potential for a toxic possessiveness to it all, Tim branding himself with Jason's suit and name. The assumptions Jason would make about Tim because of it. The way Jason could hold that over Tim's head, that they really are one and the same, and deep down, Tim must know it to some degree, if he became Red Robin when he felt replaced as Robin. I truly do not think Jason would ever shut up about it. As a fan of 'possessive/weirdly obsessed with Tim' Jason, I think this would take Jason's weird feelings about Tim to the next level. And if Tim will punish himself just by wearing Jason's legacy, imagine how much more he'd punish himself for falling for Jason too. Weird freaky little masochist who tortures himself through Jason seems exactly Jason's type, tbh. I'm feral about it.
#jaytim#tim drake x jason todd#jason todd x tim drake#timjay#batcest#necrotic festerings#even without the weird batcest dynamics of it i'll always be a pre-flashpoint red robin suit truther#yeah the new-52 suit *looked* cool and all but it lacked the history and significance of pre-flashpoint#the cowl. the legacy. the way it doesn't quite fit. all that is symbolism babey#also the fact jason got the suit from an alt universe dick grayson can add some weird jaydick to the mix of it#just for fun#anyway ppl dunk on red robin a lot as a mantle and suit without acknowledging it's history which is odd to me#yeah yeah some ppl don't read comics but the comics bring it up constantly you'd think it'd have seeped into fandom-only spaces by now#i've used robin 177 twice now for timjay metas which shows you what comics i'm partial to.#it's a good comic for timjay thoughts man.#one day i'll begrudgingly post my thoughts on new-52 (and rebirth) timjay too bc. there's material there for sure#i just am annoyed by it.
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Y'all Wyll is canonically neutral good like I fucking hate D&D alignment and how it's structured but he is not lawful good that man is functionally a vigilante who was kicked out for being pacted with a devil and tried to steal multiple times as a child there is nothing lawful about him. Just because he has a strong sense of morals and he's a perfect beautiful boy doesn't make him lawful
#Wyll Ravengard#Also why I think he'd never he a paladin.#Do not assign him a set of strict rules he could never deviate from without consequence he'd hate that#I'm so tired of seeing ppl mischaracterise him as LAWFUL good because they don't think twice about his character#And also don't bother to just look it up! Just fucking look it up!!!
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