#wow the flag actually matches them a lot..

[yourfaveis-transid-coded]

Lumine and Aether from Genshin Impact are aracial coded!

Flag !

[multishipperofgaydeadwizards]

oKaY listen! Jegulus is my OTP and I LOVE me some Bartylus too, but REGULUS & PANDORA 🥹🥹🥹

My babies!!!

Just that they understand each other in a way nobody else can and and and AHHH

1. Okay first of all: SHIP NAMES

Their most common one is Regdora which - kinda boring? Like it’s not bad, but when we have names like STARCHASER or NOBLEFLOWER or FLOWERPOT for other ships that just won’t do. Therefore my suggestion:

Stargazer

Because Star - Regulus (no explanation needed) and like gazer as kind of a synonym for seer?? Alternatively I have Starseer or Waterbox (Water for Reggie like in Moonwater + Pandoras Box yk), but Stargazer just sounds so Stargazer.

2. I OBVIOUSLY love them as an „Arranged Marriage I don’t want AT ALL (why are there butterflies in my stomache??) trope“, BUT also as the „we are queer best friends and jealous of each others partners, but idk why” trope!!

Also how many AMAZING Dynamics they have??

- Grumpy x Sunshine

- I hate everyone, but you and you love everyone, but you love me the most

- Soulmates

- Best Friends to Lovers

- ENEMIES TO LOVERS (Arranged marriage trope)

3. The DENIAL the both of them would have (especially when they are both seers) like:

„I saw a prophecy that showed me and Reggie in a Cottage with a child that could be related to us - MUST BE BECAUSE HES THE GODFATHER“

„Had a Dream abt Panda standing in front of me in a wedding gown - GOOD TO KNOW IM GONNA BE HER BEST MAN“

DO YOU GET WHAT I MEAN??🥹

or the Arranged Marriage Trope??

„Dream Abt making out against a door with Regulus - HOW WEIRD”

“Wow Pandora looks like a goddess in that dress, her glare makes me feel fuzzy and I want to smooth the frown on her forehead with my fingers while she looks up at me - IVE GOTTA REALLY LIKE THAT DRESS TO THINK LIKE THAT”

4. Once they ACTUALLY start dating they would literally be inseparable. They would cuddle and kiss and talk 24/7! Even their me-time they both need turns into us-time and is just as effective. They would start to panic if they don’t see each other for more than a DAY. Also their dates would be sooo cute!! No matter whether it would be the cozy queer cafe around the corner or the flashy pureblood dance balls. They would have such a comfy aura and nobody would mind their pda cause they would be so comfortable with each other.

Sometimes they would just spend a day in absolute silence but a COZY COMFY DOMESTIC ONE yk???

Also the “I hate physical touch except for when it’s you” trope!!

5. Just then going to a pride parade together with matching outfits in like their 30s, already married and a bi flag on Reggie’s cheeks and a Pan one on Dora’s and they would be so PROUD.

Or just the courting process in the arranged marriage trope PEAK!!

6. They are love. They are soulmates. They are Stargazer (or Waterbox still unsure bout that one)

This got WAY longer than I originally intended but oh well :)

REGDORA!!! FAIRYSEEKER!!! MY LOVES <33333

you don't understand how much I adore them. I love love love them. they're my everything's <3 my hunnies <3 my sweet little babies <3

okay so, 1. I actually don't mind the name regdora, but yes, it's blant and ugly compared to everything else. personally, I know them as fairyseeker, which is what you can find them under on my blog lmao. stargazer is a GORGEOUS ship name... though I think of regularly every time I hear it lmao

i LOVE the name waterbox. idk why I just adore it

2. yesssssssss!!! istg they have the best troupes (next to bartylily). them as arranged marriage partners sounds so fun. imagine they're just kids when they first meet, and they're told they're supposed to get married when they grow up to combine the rosiers/lestranges

at first, they don't mind (they're tiny and have no idea what being married even means). they start hogwarts, and both realise that they're into their same gender people (once again, i bring up my mtf dora + ftm reg). so both spend a lot of time just convinced they aren't into each other. reg is a lesbian after all, and pandora is gay... then they come out as trans and both are like: oh-

3. grumpy x sunshine is so them omfg

them bith as seers???? Christ. them being so fucking blind is just so fitting. they never even consider that they might like each other

them as oblivious little fuckers so true. they are in deep denial fr. regulus is foaming out the mouth at how pandora is, but it's completely platonic

4. HSEIBSIEBSOENSO YESS OMFG

All they need is each other. they're always together, getting one of them alone is impossible. you can try, and you will fail

that trope is SO them. it's insane

5. they would definitely love their time at a pride parade. they're having the time of their lives and they've been happier

6. I love it when asks go this long. it just sucks because I usually can't add anything on because you guys are just so correct already 😮‍💨

thank you for sharing your brain with me. I appreciate it a lot <3

[kats-bullshit]

Watching Brazil gp 2016

and my comments (mostly just me crying over Max and a lot of emojis, don't expect any wheel knowledge)

Max looks so young 😭

can't believe it, they're actually praising Max 🤯

GP sounds exactly the same 😂

6 laps and the safety car is still there, when will the fun begin? 😔

Toto looks so fucking young wtf

why is Max as VES on the timesheet instead of VER? (oh, apparently someone else had VER (reverse driver?))

intermediates with so much water still? Seems like a bad idea

the new timesheet is so much better, you can't see shit on the old one

Sebastian! That looked scary!

brocedes trading the fastest lap. I wish I'd watched their fight live 😔

Max going into pitlane when Ericsson was there looked terrifying from far away, but from the onboard, it looked quite controlled from Max's side

Horner and Magnussen's radio at the same time, congratulations, I didn't hear either of them 😒

safety car again

KIMI NOOO

safety car again 🥲

hearing Sebastian being a bitch (rightfully of course), I wish I watched him race and be a menace live

red flag, stupid rain

wow, Carlos, you don't have to look so good, chill

young Max again 😭

another crash, I wonder if they'll drive the whole race or finish earlier

"he is very much letting Nico Rosberg know he's there" Max being Nico's nightmare is so funny to me 😂

Max looks like when you're trying to pass some a very slow-walking person on the pavement. left, right, left, right 😂

and another red flag. I should've just watched the highlights 😭

IS THAT CHARLES

Daniel ☹️

this is the worst race to watch today, I don't have the patience for this today

I'm going to take my dogs on a walk and the race will probably still be red-flagged

we're racing again, I wonder for how long (lap 29/71)

I'm literally only watching this race for that one Max's overtake on Rosberg, how long till I'll finally see it 😭

Perez in 4th so weird, who would have thought he can do that

MAX VERSTAPPEN OVERTAKING NICO ROSBERG

"What confidence! The boy just goes and finds grip everywhere else! Okay, you're going there, I'll just go somewhere else then and see how it is out there! Absolutely brilliant"

"Get in there Maxy" 😭

I've seen everything I needed 😂

Fastest lap for Max. Little truck terror at the age of 19 stressing brocedes

SHIT MAX almost crashed! Kept it on the track beautifully, but Rosberg on his ass now! He kept the second! Looks to me like Max feels way more confident in the rain than Rosberg

Max's driving looked so calm during that almost crash. I'm always in awe of how the driver can keep calm in that speed

Max 5th again bc of the pitstop :/ and again intermediates when a heavy rain is supposed to come?

one thing didn't change, drivers screaming about being pushed from the track

imagine if Nico crashed, he would kiss that championship goodbye

and we've got another crash and safety car, yay 😒 just 20 laps to go, pls

RedBull just trading intermediates and wet like socks

Max in the pits again. I wonder how the race will end, max in 16th and 23 minutes till the end of the race.

nvm, Max in 13th 🤣

The 3 RedBulls in a row looked so cool

Max in the points!

"One word to describe Max: relaxed" "He's outrageous" "it's a textbook lesson on how to drive in the rain" the commentators are praising Max so much 😭 bring this energy back, I want to hear it in 2024 😭

Daniel and Max match each other's freak fr

what the fuck did they do to the cars now, people just casually are gaining 11 positions and now they barely overtaking 😕 or maybe it's the track, ig I'll see when Brazil happens this year

so Max just pushed Sebastian off the track and no one is screaming and calling for his murder?? They were amused by the thought of the talk whether Sebastian was ahead or not?? what is going on 🤯

RedBull loves Max so much 😭

Max is on the fucking podium from 16th and he is getting praise from everyone 😭

[lurkingteapot]

Last Twilight ภาพนายไม่เคยลืม Ep 5

Another P'Aof ep 5/12, another domestic morning scene with teasing and breakfast.

did Mawk just skip one of the comments?

oh that's gonna be a thing with the hands in the picture innit

called iiit

the Phiinawnging is STRONG in this one

that teddybear, whaaaa

did we just skip an entire day

the way Mawk looks at Day, my goodness

adasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf GEE

Gee you really just quoted the song I CANNOT

hi August oops

oh dear, bad blood? even though they're supposed to be playing together?

is he a homophobe or what

or does he just think Day sucks, which in the current context I could kinda see

wow Day's hair is concrete solid

awww

oh man this is tough

so it WAS him who asked for that

food as a love language, godddd

oooh Mawk opening up

the rainbow flags in the background, are we supposed to not read into that, p'Aof??

oh, that's sweet but possibly also misguided

that seems like it was too easy, idk

awww

so that WAS the match Mawk watched

that WAS the invitation to a date and also Day used to have a crush on him, I guess

did Mawk just set them up on a date?! I love this, oh my god

so it's Saturdayyyy

I love Phawjai so much

Phawjai ilu but body spray and perfume aren't the same

is this the date place from Step by Step??

If *I* still can't tell how much of Mawk's flirting is serious and how much is him playing, how is Day supposed to be able to tell???

fgsdfgsdfg wow Mawk is laying it on thickkk

don't take away his food three bites in!!!! hey

oh Mawk is enjoying this so much

don't play with your fooood

oh no I want this to well for day but I'm also WORRIED

where are they finding all these cute food places, godddd

Mawk is so good, gdi

thanks for letting Jimmy act without speaking for once

oooh is he actually gonna quit/cut down??

is August gonna stand him up?? that sucks

he probably texted and Day didn't see, huh

but wow an HOUR?? he could've at least called.

poor Day :(

I love this a lot

DATE

this is the most unrealistic thing in the show so far, what 20something dude knows flower meanings??

oh Day, don't say thatttt

the close-ups here!!! the close angles!!!

I love that Day's honest, but also Mawk just got his heart broken a little, huh

he turned up!!! oh no? yay? which is it???

did he know???

oh fuck

Mawk really, really likes him, huh

not the bus stop music of change!!!!

oh next week looks DELIGHTFULLY messy, maybe even moreso than this week

[spacemagicandlaserswords]

The Clone Wars 5.18 ‘The Jedi Who Knew Too Much' Reaction

I always like trying to spot which characters are in the background of big group scenes like this. So far I’ve spotted 3 admirals (Coburn, Yularen and Tarkin), assorted jedi, Master Sinube, Kit Fisto, Bail Organa and I think that’s Mon Mothma as well. 

Oh, hi again Barriss. Fancy seeing you here again! Funny that we keep meeting like this after so long.

I think that’s Ki-Adi-Mundi and Plo next to Barriss.

So, Barriss killed one of her childhood mentors? I’m probably going to collate my thoughts on Barriss at the end of this arc, rather than scattering them across various recaps. But so much of her characterisation here doesn’t make sense and doesn’t feel right, at all.

I’m not sure if I mentioned this in the recaps when Barriss first appeared, but why is she British?

There’s a shot of 6 beams of light going up from the floor so I’m presuming that means 6 Jedi died in the temple bombings, which seems like an awfully large amount. What were 6 Jedi doing in a hanger of the temple? 1 or 2, maybe 3 at a stretch, makes sense, but 6? I’m guessing this is a story telling decision to make it more impactful, rather than for any logical in-universe reason.

I really despise Tarkin.

Oh, so now the deaths of clones are convenient for you Tarkin. “Military matter” my arse.

Who are the military police? Is that not the Coruscant Guard? I know the general fandom take is that the Corries are saddled with having to do everything but is that the case in canon?

Ahsoka’s angry attitude is definitely going to come back and bite her in the arse later.

“Remember, revenge is not the Jedi way.” says the future DARTH VADER

“Nothing will ever change.” FORESHADOWING KLAXON

Ok, Tarkin is getting very close to being up there with Krell and Nolan. His fucking contemptuous finger waggle at Ahsoka. Ugh.

“I assure you that he [Palps] rarely does anything without a strategy.” Oh, if only you knew Tarkin. Or maybe he does? Hmmm.

Is Barriss a Jedi Knight here or is she still a Padawan? I haven’t seen Luminara anywhere so I’m guessing she’s a Knight by now.

Barriss seems a lot more conflicted and upset than I thought for someone that’s just bombed the Jedi temple and killed a childhood mentor who clearly meant a lot to her. Maybe she’s regretting what she’s done? Hmmm, not sure.

Saleucami! I hope Cut and Suu and the kids are doing ok.

Lmao that ominous brass section was not subtle. FOREBODING KLAXON

Why do they have the Venator shipping yards next to the prison?

That shot of the prison felt very Imperial Empire. All stark architecture, sharp shadows, black and white lighting, red flags and giant symbols everywhere. It’s interesting how Imperial iconography and visuals are starting to creep into Republic locations and situations. Something something visual metaphor about the end approaching.

Why is the memorial to the clones outside the prison? Or is this not the prison and is some other building? Is this the same clone memorial that Crosshair and Cody have their little chat in front of in The Bad Batch?

Corries! Wow, they do all match and have exactly the same armour paint. 

FOX!

That grumpy “Yes?” spoke volumes.

Fox, can you not cross your arms properly? What was that? I’m guessing it was more of a functional animation limitation than Fox not actually being unable to cross his arms. Insert your own fandom theories here about injuries that Palps inflicted on him while torturing him or similar that meant he can't cross his arms. Maybe he's got Force lightning burns across his back and it's painful and pulls when he moves too much.

The scan has Ahsoka standing there with her arms out but then the next shot of her is with her arms crossed? Continuity, hello?

At “Leave your comlink and lightsabers here.” Fox gestures down with his index and middle finger outstretched next to each other and oh boy did my mind go straight to the horny bin.

“Follow me.” Omg Fox did you have to say that in such a low, husky voice? That had a distinct feel of ‘Come with me if you want to live’ about it. If Fox basically whispered that to me it’d be “Sir, yes Sir, immediately Sir, however you want me Sir.”

The reference to the first 4 notes of the Imperial March theme there was pretty damn obvious. I remember reading a really interesting theory that Fox was a prototype for Vader and basically functioned as Palps’ attack dog before he turned Anakin to the Dark Side. I wish I could find it again because it was a fascinating read and might explain the presence of the Imperial March here. The music for the entire scene from when Ahsoka entered the prison was particularly foreboding, which makes sense seeing as it’s a prison. However, I’m not entirely sure who the theme is referencing because I don’t think it’s Ahsoka and Anakin isn’t here. Or perhaps it’s just adding to the general foreboding atmosphere. It’s entirely possible I’m reading too much into this.

Surely there are cameras and microphones recording this information that Letta is telling Ahsoka?

Is Barriss Force choking Letta from outside the prison? If so, then she’s fallen quite a long way to the Dark side because that seems like quite a powerful use of the Force.

That shot from the camera in the cell is definitely going to make it look like Ahsoka is the one choking Letta. And how convenient, the feed from that camera just cut out too.

Lmao Fox didn’t even hesitate. He was ready to fuck shit up. 

Oh hey, Fox also duel wields. 

Hmmm, I’m not sure how I feel about Fox immediately arresting Ahsoka. I think this is another example of the struggle I have with canon Fox vs fanon Fox. I’m going to have to collate my thoughts on that somewhere as well, probably after the chip conspiracy arc *sobs*. I think I’ve come to the realisation that I’m going to have to treat them as completely separate characters. I adore the version of Fox that the fandom has created. And every time I see the tiny bits of canon Fox that we get, it’s almost like a disappointment compared to the depth and layers of fanon Fox, to the point that canon Fox almost feels out of character. I know he doesn’t have any choice in the matter (none of the clones do) and I’m viewing this from an outside perspective looking in. I guess it’s more of an interesting conundrum to be aware of.

That shot of the prison felt even more evil Imperial Empire than the first one.

Great, fucking Tarkin again. Accompanied by hints of the Imperial March while marching down a stark corridor with harsh, ominous lighting. Definitely leaning on the Imperial Empire visuals this episode.

Called it. The footage from the cell is being used to frame Ahsoka as choking Letta. And the sound didn’t work either. How convenient.

Called it again. Tarkin using Ahsoka’s earlier attitude against her. Attitude doesn’t feel like the right word but it’s far too early in the morning and I can’t think of the right one.

Tarkin makes understandable points if this was some kind of detached, impersonal debate about an imaginary situation. But it’s not. He’s just being a deliberately abusive bastard. Definitely getting up there with Krell and Nolan.

Anakin being very Dark Side there when threatening Fox.

Who is helping Ahsoka escape? Is it Barriss? I don’t think it’s Anakin because he arrives after Ahsoka escapes. Plus clones were killed and injured and while we just saw Anakin threaten them and be all very Dark Side about it, I don’t think he’s fallen far enough to that level of Sithliness yet. 

Utterly unnecessary acrobatics but ok.

“If you see the target, shoot to kill.” Oh no, that is some painful foreshadowing right there.

Fucking yes, thank you Rex. Knew we could count on Rex to believe in Ahsoka. 

“Then who did?” Fox asking the question we’re all wondering.

Why is Anakin telling Rex to call security when Fox, the Commander of the Coruscant Guard, is right there? Surely he is the security?

How does Anakin telling Rex to tell security to search the entire base translate to an all-points bulletin on Ahsoka?

You can really tell from Rex’s voice how much this is affecting him. How he can’t believe that Ahsoka could do this. It was almost like he didn’t want to issue the order that he had to. I’m really glad that someone apart from Anakin believes Ahsoka, and that it’s Rex. Of course we could rely on our king. He can’t actually do anything to help her though. None of the clones can. They’re slaves. They have to follow orders. But at least we actually get to see that Rex doesn’t believe Ahsoka is capable of this and that he believes her, and believes in her. We’ve seen Rex’s belief and trust in Ahsoka crop up a few times now. The most obvious being his defence of her to Tarkin in the Citadel arc. 

Complete switch of tone but Rex, do you ever clean your armour? I know he’s busy fighting a war and all that but I’ve noticed his armour being especially dirty in a number of episodes now. It’s particularly noticeable on his bucket. That’s a lot of gunk and grime across the top of his visor.

Wtf is that giant vehicle and isn’t that just a little bit of overkill for trying to find one Jedi Padawan? I feel like there’s a point about excessive police violence in there somewhere.

So many of the shots of the prison feel very Imperial Empire. They’d barely have to change anything to make the switch from the Republic to the Empire. That’s probably the point too.

Grizzer!

Hound sounded distinctly Aussie there. More funkiness happening with the clones' accents.

Thunder and lightning? That is hilariously on the nose.

Clone troopers shooting like stormtroopers. Fanon Fox would not stand for this lack of accuracy from his Corries. He has standards and he expects them to be met.

Jhc they just used a canon to fire on a child. Fuck me that is far too excessive.

“Set weapons to stun.” The foreshadowing is causing me great, deep pain.

Ahsoka is deflecting stun bolts so I’m guessing the training that happens in episode 5 ‘Practice Makes Perfect’ of Tales of the Jedi has happened already? I wish I could find a resource of where all these episodes happen in the timeline and around which dates they happen as well.

We need to talk about the kama, because I am now utterly befuddled about which clones can get one. 

Hound has a kama, but he’s an ARF (Advanced Recon Force) Scout Trooper. 

The other ARF trooper in the Coruscant Guard also has a kama. 

Fox has a kama and he’s a clone commander and the Commander of the Coruscant Guard but he isn’t listed as having ARC training. 

I think I’ve seen other Corrie Guard commanders with kama’s as well. 

Rex, Fives and Echo (and eventually Jesse) all have kama's and they are ARCs. 

Cody is a clone commander and The Marshal Commander but he doesn’t have a kama and isn’t listed as having ARC training (I cannot believe that The Marshal Commander Cody doesn’t have ARC training but that’s another point for another time). 

Ponds had a kama and was a clone commander but isn’t listed as having ARC training. 

Bly is a Marshal Commander and has ARC training and has a kama. 

Wolffe is a clone commander and has a kama but isn’t listed as having ARC training (I also can’t believe that Wolffe doesn’t have ARC training either but that’s the same point as Cody so for another time). 

Keeli was a captain, not a commander, isn’t listed as having ARC training but did have a kama. 

So what decides whether a clone can have a kama or not? I thought it was an ARC thing but clearly not seeing as other clones that aren’t ARCs can have one.

They’re mobilising a giant rolling tank thing and gunships to hunt down a child? This is definitely beyond excessive. I know at this point Ahsoka is considered armed and dangerous but she’s also A Child. This just feels completely excessive and cruel. And not that far removed from the Empire, which, again, is probably the point.

And now it’s raining. Because of course it is.

“Do not shoot to kill.” I hate all of this foreshadowing. All of it.

What are these pipelines supposed to be for? I’m guessing not petrol seeing as nothing has exploded yet.

That is a lot of skill from Ahsoka to be able to deflect multiple repeated stun bolts while sprinting flat out.

Did you just really fire on a child with a fucking rocket launcher?!

Oddball, what are you doing? I know you’re just following orders but you don’t have to sound so gleeful about it. Also, why is his helmet yellow? Actually that kind of looks like 212th orange. I thought Oddball was in the 501st? A quick google says he’s in the 212th but none of the search results seem particularly definitive or legit. If he is part of the 212th, what is he doing on Coruscant? We saw Obi-Wan on a holocall at the start of the episode talking about going to the Anoat system so presumably the 212th is there, and not on Coruscant?

Is this the first time we see Ahsoka do the move of cutting a hole in the floor with her lightsaber?

Ah, so the pipes are for water. Or at least I think they are.

Anakin is looking particularly conflicted and upset throughout all of this.

TW: Discussion of abuse below. If you want to skip this, it's the section between the three dashes '---'

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That exchange at the end between Ahsoka and Anakin was very interesting. Anakin is making some fairly reasonable and understandable points, which is intriguing given he’s characterised as the opposite of that most of the time. It’s another insight into how complex of a character he is. I think TCW has done a very good job of showing not only the depth and complexity to Anakin’s character but also how much more there was to his fall to the Dark Side. He is undoubtedly aggressive, possessive, abusive, and dangerous. Yet he’s also being groomed by a monster in a position of power that no one even notices or realises before it’s all too late. He was also a slave and had an abusive and traumatic childhood and seems to falling into the pattern of how abusees can often turn into abusers.

Amongst all of this, you can also see how much he cares for those who mean a lot to him. He and Rex are the only ones that believe Ahsoka, but Anakin is the only one in any meaningful position of power with the ability to do something about it. It’s plainly obvious how much he cares for Ahsoka.

However, that care and belief still veers too far into aggression and possession and he continues to cross the line multiple times with unacceptable actions and behaviour. I wonder if he lets Ahsoka go at the end of the episode because he trusts her or because he doesn’t know what to do?

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Ahsoka was also making wholly valid and understandable points, which I think Anakin knew as well, even as he was trying to convince her to come back. Is this the first time we hear Ahsoka call Anakin by his first name? She usually calls him ‘Master’ or ‘Skyguy’ and her use of his first name here feels particularly personal and loaded with meaning. I’m glad Ahsoka knows that at least Anakin trusts and believes her, even when no one else does.

I wanted to include this gif because look at Rex looking like James Bond in the background being framed by the pipe.

Then this gif and the two above made me realise another thing about Anakin.

TW: Discussion of abuse and domestic violence below. If you want to skip this, it's the section between the three dashes '---'

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As much as Anakin cares about Ahsoka and is trying to help her, his possession and controlling is very evident here. The way he said "I would never let anyone hurt you Ahsoka" felt very much like something a domestic abuser would say after hurting their partner. Or what a possessive and controlling domestic abuser would say to their partner. There's a dangerous and desperate edge to it. You can also see Anakin doesn't agree with what Ahsoka is doing and is angry at her for not doing it his way. He thinks his way is the best way to try and fix this and of course he immediately gets pissed as soon as someone doesn't do what he says and follows what he thinks should be done. Anakin is refusing to let Ahsoka go, even while trying to help her. His possession and controlling is still here, even if it isn't as overt as when he's with Padmé.

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The voice acting throughout TCW has been pretty damn excellent and Ahsoka is no different. Ashley Eckstein did a fantastic job. But it felt like it stepped up another level, particularly in that exchange between Ahsoka and Anakin at the end. There was so much emotion and upset and betrayal in Ahsoka’s voice. 

There is the subtlest of hints of the Imperial March after Ahsoka jumps and we get a shot of Anakin, Rex and Fox at the mouth of the tunnel, followed by a shot of Ahsoka falling. It’s very subtle, probably the subtlest I’ve heard throughout the whole series but it’s definitely there. The intervals between the notes of the Imperial March are very distinct. Again, I’m not sure what it’s referencing or emphasising here. Probably Anakin seeing as he does turn into Darth Vader. But like the scene earlier where Ahsoka first enters the prison, it also feels slightly out of place. Usually when the Imperial March turns up, it’s fairly clear that it’s referring to Anakin, like when he killed Merrik in ‘Voyage of Temptation’. It could also be a misdirection to make Ahsoka appear to be falling to the Dark side. Though that doesn’t entirely make sense seeing as we know that she didn’t kill Letta and is being set up. Hmmm. 

I know it’s meant to be a big climactic ending to the episode but couldn’t Anakin just follow Ahsoka and jump down onto the ship that she’s standing on that’s floating down the giant tunnel? And couldn’t Fox just comm some Corries to follow the ship and meet it when it lands? He is the Commander of the Coruscant Guard after all.   

That episode was intense and A Lot. And there’s still 2 episodes of this arc to go. Oof.

[madrigaljail]

Spectrum

Slipping this out for Madrigay Days day 4 "flag", I really need to make a fic-thing on AO3 for all the established relationship Bruno/José stuff. In the mean time: Bruno/OMC, T, sexual reference, LGBTQ+ label befuddlement.

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Bruno stared at José and tried his best not to fidget. José stared into the box on his lap, his expression shifting from curious to confused before he glanced over at Bruno.

“Feliz cumpleaños!” Bruno said and waved his hands jazzily.

“You got me a scarf.”

“Actually it’s a stole. Like, part of vestments.”

 José lifted one gold-fringed end of the stole and rubbed his thumb over the fabric, nodding. “Thank you, Bruno, it’s very…colorful.”

Doubt entered his voice, and Bruno understood why: José was a lot of things but a flashy dresser was not one of them. So far even on holidays the priest had maintained a dour wardrobe, and when he deigned to wear green it was dark or muted shade.

(“I’m a joke to you.”

“No you’re not. Your family’s obsession with color coordination is.”)

In any event, the striped stole did not at all match his aesthetic.

“It’ll make sense when I explain it,” Bruno assured him and scooted closer on the sofa. “At least I hope it will.”

“Ok, chulito,” José said, and the corner of his mouth twitched up as he turned to him. “Why did you get me a rainbow-patterned stole?”

Bruno grinned. “Ok, so, in the future-” He wiggled his fingers; José  rolled his eyes. “-someone is going to make a flag to celebrate men who love men, women who love women, folks who love both, y’know. There’s gonna be other, more specific flags but the rainbow’s supposed to cover everyone. It’s called a pride flag.”

José tilted his head, and Bruno could just about hear the gears turning. “People are going to be…proud? To be like us?”

Like us. Despite their relationship Bruno still wasn’t sure if he was like José, who had dealt with the various consequences of his attraction to other men for much of his life while Bruno had existed in a limbo of loving no one. There had to be a word for it, he just needed to look harder. 

“They are,” he replied, and gave a single firm nod. “It’s not going to be easy, there’s gonna- people are going to have to fight, and keep fighting, but they’re going to be proud, and unashamed.”

“Huh.” José studied the striped garment more closely, and nodded. “Alright, that’s good. That’s very good to know, thank you. I’m still stuck on why it’s a rainbow.”

“Oh! Right, all the colors have meanings.” By now well into presenter mode, Bruno pointed at one of the stripes.. “Pink is for…ah, sex. And, just so we’re clear, if this gift isn’t wowing you I do remember you saying something about not wanting to be able to walk straight tomorrow and…that’s still an option.”

“...right, let’s keep that in mind,” José said and reached out with one arm to pull Bruno even closer.  Soon they were huddled together, safe and content as Bruno explained the meaning behind the rest of the colors.

José wore the stole during Carnivale, and delivered a homily about being true to oneself as surely that was the best way to embody the life one had been given. 

At the next large party, he wore a vest of vibrant mint green.

[seamea]

A Steddie AU where Steve meet a famous Eddie at a Taylor Swift concert

Part 1 ♥️

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Steve and Robin were driving in their car up to Cincinatti. Taylor Swift was blasting in the car. Obviously. It was quite hot but the two of them were laughing really loud so it was really bearable.

They were going as a « gay version » of Miss Americana and the heartbreak prince as they were calling it. Robin with a lesbian flag color themed dress and a rainbow sash and Steve with a bi flag themed shirt and a tie matching Robin’s sash. They were stunning. Robin’s dress was puffy and Steve’s crown was surprisingly quite realistic giving expensive prom realness. They also made 100 friendship bracelet with rainbow colors. It was clear that they wanted to do the most for this unique event. When they arrived at the venue Robin found their seats while Steve queued for the merch.

There were a lot of people, mainly girls but everyone smiled at him and he saw so many cute outfits that he found so original. He was daydreaming when a voice interrupted him.

« Oh !! Are you Steve the swiftie teacher? From Tiktok? ». It was a little blond girl who almost squealed. She was 11 at best.

« Yes I am! I am so excited to be here! Do you want to exchange friendship bracelets with me? ».

The girl nodded with joy.

« You know, your tiktoks helped me a lot! You taught me how to tell my mom that a girl was bullying me »

Steve alsmost shed a tear. He was about the answer her when the mom in question appeared, a bit worried right before her daughter told her who Steve was. She then smiled at him and offered her card.

« You are such a kind soul. Could I give you my number by any chance? I’d love for you to be a speaker at a event I am doing! ».

Steve smiled and thanked her. It was amazing that someone felt better because of him. After he got Robin’s and his sweatshirts, he took a look at the venue and spotted were the famous people stayed. He tried to remember the path for later to bring Dustin his wanted picture. Damn. He realized at this moment where he was.

Taylor Swift would be in the same room as him.

The concert began and the crowd was wild. Everything was amazing. Life felt good. He cried during heartbreak songs thinking of his exes, which were only Nancy and Ben, a guy from college that he’d like to forget.

During one song that Steve liked a bit less he decided to go the toilets. He was annoyed but he wanted to enjoy the rest of the long setlist.

« Shake it off aha, I shake it off » was blasting in the stadium. While walking to the nearest toilets he passed next to where « famous people stay » as he called it. That’s when he saw the celebrities. He saw him. Eddie Munson. Wearing his usual outfit : a denim jacket, a leather vest, jeans but instead of a metal tee, he was rocking a era’s tour teeshirt. He was stunning.

Steve approached the security guard and asked if he could give Eddie a friendship bracelet. He was stressed, it was his one chance. The guard nodded and called the lead guitarist of THE group of metal of the moment. Steve saw that Eddie smiled at the word bracelet. He could not believe he was meeting a superstar, Dustin would be so happy. He cleared his voice to try to sound confident.

« Hum, I have a frienship bracelet for you. If you’d like it. »

Eddie’s deep voice shone, like kittens were coming out of his mouth « Wow thanks man!! « teardrops on my guitar», very fitting for a guitarist aha! »

Steve smiled, he was uneasy and shocked by this man prettiness, as well as how nice he sounded. Eddie must have seen it because he said:

« Are you a metal fan as well as a pop fan? »

« Actually, hum, it is really embarrassing but I don’t know your music that well… My friend is a massive fan though and wanted a picture. But… I…I like some songs of yours». Steve was dying of embarrassment. He should have said something else, the guitarist would be so offended by this.

Eddie Munson was, indeed, a bit taken by surprise by this. But to Steve’s relief, he laughed really loudly.

« Don’t be embarrassed man! Do you want a selfie with me? Or an autograph for your friend ? »

« I’d love too! »

Eddie smiled at him. Steve was so happy, he met a sex symbol, pleased Dustin and Taylor Swift was in the background. Truly magical.

Eddie took a leaflet and told him: «here you go babe! Love your shirt by the way… »

Steve must have been crazy because he thought that Eddie winked at him. He then waved, flushed and went back to his seat while texting the groupchat the picture of the signature and of their selfie.

[goldengamer2500]

Oh, oh, this seems like the perfect post to rant about my trans dreams as well!

I only realized that i might be trans at the start of this year, but since then I've had a handful of dreams where something happened that definitely wasn't cis.

Sorry in advance for the wall of text.

These dreams are more-or-less in chronological order:

In one dream I was hanging out with some friends that i haven't seen in YEARS and at one point we took a picture together and one of my friends commented something among the lines of "Wow, you almost look like a girl in this picture" and i remember that in my dream i thought "Oh yeah, I haven't told them yet! I should I tell then that I'm..." then the conversation got derailed and the dream went in a completely different direction but i know what I was about to say in that moment.

In another dream i remember that me and my family had moved to another state or... something like that? I don't remember the exact details but we were somewhere-I-didn't-know and we didn't have any of our stuff so we had to go to a nearby store to buy a change of clothes and stuff. I don't know what came over me in that dream but out of everything in the store I specifically picked a frilly lilac blouse and skirt (yes, I vividly remember what i wore, they were a matching set too lmao). I then remember how I was nervously trying to come up with an excuse to tell my parents (and my grandma, who was also there for some reason????) but sadly I don't remember how the conversation turned out.

In a different dream I was at my childhood home and for whatever reason I was inside the room that used to belong to my parents trying out some dresses (don't remember if they were mine or my mother's, but it doesn't matter) and at some point my dad was calling me over for dinner or something, and despite how much I told them not to come into the room they still managed to open the door (that door actually had a problem with the lock IRL) and they saw me in a dress, I remember that i got angry at them and yelled a lot at them but I don't remember how they reacted in that dream.

There's another dream which I only have very vague memories of, but I remember that at some point I had an argument with my grandma (who keeps showing up in these kinds of dreams for some reason??) about... something stupid probably? but I remember that after the argument I thought to myself "Was that a good enough girl voice? I didn't think I could keep it up during an argument..." Curiously I remember that my voice did sound different in that dream. I also haven't started voice training yet and I thought that was funny detail.

In arguably the most obvious trans dream I had I was camping with some of my old friends (I think in the dream it was supposed to be like a school trip because they were my friends from middle-school) and at some point we all returned to the lodge or wherever where we were staying and I went to take a shower. I remember looking at myself in the mirror and, well it wasn't exactly a girl's body but I would definitely describe my reflection as androgynous, much more feminine than my real body. Funnily enough I remember how I was so shocked and happy by this that I actually had to check if I still had that thing (Sadly I still had it but I find it hilarious that I had to make sure even in a dream). Another stupid detail from this dream is that later on that same dream we noticed that they had an Xbox on the lodge and me and my friends hooked it up and started playing Guilty Gear Strive. I, of course, picked Bridget. (The trans girl character for those that do not know. Curiously she's a DLC character which I don't own yet so I haven't used her IRL. I remember commenting about this on the dream)

And while this is not reduced to a specific dream, I recently made a trans flag armband/bracelet using some colorful hair ties that i stole from my mum and I've been using it in my room or whenever I go out without my parents. Well, I've noticed that in most of my recent dreams I'm wearing this armband, so that's that.

Sorry for the rant but I've been thinking about these dreams for a while now and I just had to tell somebody about them. :3

Dreaming

This is actually a dream I had a few weeks ago. Ever since I realized I was trans last year, I've been getting more and more dreams (which I remember) where I'm, you know, physically a girl, but this was the first outright "trans" dream. Hope I can make it a real one eventually

[honeyhotteoks]

I love old fandoms and fandom ships too because of the nostalgia and comfort you get from when you rewatch everything.

As I grew older, I understand that Spike was more dedicated to Buffy and it for real seems like the actors had more chemistry than Buffy had with Angel but that's just me.

Honestly, pls no one give me hate for this but my comfort couple and fandom is Edward and Bella from The Twilight Saga.

Became a fan at 10 and I'm now 26 and still love the books, the movies and I have a Twilight tattoo and I'm still a simp for Edward Cullen.

Yeah the relationship is toxic af and unhealthy and it was hilarious when I was at the Twilight marathon and everyone around me would just scream out 'red flag' whenever Edward did something icky.

But I'm also now a 26 year old watching these movies and being like... Carlisle Cullen's beauty is slept on for real, Peter Facinelli's beauty was UNHINGED in the movies.

Particularly in New Moon, the scene where he's pulling glass out of Bella's arm and Kristen Stewart looks at Peter like she's going to ravage him on that table.

And that moment where he cradles her chin and stares at her with way too much sexual tension is the moment many twihards who watched realised their daddy issues were way bigger than they anticipated (that's me I'm one of them).

13 year old me was blushing and kicking my feet over Edward Cullen and I'm sure I'll be doing the same at 43.

Some of the dialogue he says to Bella is downright cheesy and I still gush over them now.

Like this one,

' Dream happy dreams. You are the only one who has ever touched my heart. Therefore it shall always be yours. Sleep, my only love'.

wait okay i'm about to ramble on about vampires and fandom so click under the cut LOL BUT YES TO ALL

as far as your spike/buffy comment..... a thousand times yes. i do think that smg and david boreanaz have good chemistry, but as i have gotten older i think it's harder to read the buffy and angel storyline as romantic when you understand angel's problematic history and the fact that she's sixteen when the series starts. buffy and spike are really so well matched in the show because i think we got to see the actors as adults playing adults and deal with adult things including sex and romance in ways that feel more engaging to me as an audience member. spike's also a much more funny and messy character compared to early days angel lol which always matched buffy's energy better to me. (i also personally think they are like actual soulmates and i'll ship them until i die buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut i digress)

as far as edward and bella, omg join the club i was VERY into twilight as a kid. i'm 30, so i remember reading the books, seeing the movie cast, reading stephenie meyer's blog, and all that. i literally went to see robert pattinson at the mall for a signing event.... i was truly one of those fangirls LOL

as an adult i think that's a ship that has faded a bit for me just because i think there are other fandoms where the source material for the characters is a lot richer BUT i still watch those movies every couple of years and they are def comfort films for me. plus like..... in terms of tropey good romance, twilight hits so many good beats. like i'm so sorry i can and will watch the scene where edward physically puts himself between bella and jacob (after the jacob kiss/broken hand scene) on literal repeat. i am fully weak for it idc if it's concerning to feminism lmao

also def not to sleep on your carlisle point - they REALLY played with the religious trauma and sexual tension in that scene and as an adult WOW it hits. so 100000% agree

[dionysus-is-my-dude]

So I didn't take any of my meds yesterday...

forgot my daytime meds at home so I didn't take them at work, and then I totally forgot to pick up my nighttime meds, so I didn't take ANY of my meds yesterday. Struggled to stay asleep, but wow, did my dreams get WILD.

firstly, there were lots of early moments of me going straight into some wild psychedelic dreams the second I closed my eyes, scary images and being in a dark room surrounded by old, broken toys. very scary.

after that, i think the next dream i had was me, my mom, and her husband all going through a haunted house at some local town Halloween theme park or whatever. but no matter how many times i tried to get my mom's attention, her face was a blur and i couldn't see her eyes past her glasses. the next thing i know, i'm a tall super goth girl with crazy heels and a girlfriend that matches, and together, we kill two girls who were being mean to us. we ran away, and i mean, like, we were running and hiding and running some more, 'cause we were being chased by the townsfolk. eventually, we fled into some woods, and then i was one of the townsfolk, and we found "us" as corpses that had given birth to gross bug creatures that fed on us. (probably something about being eaten alive by guilt.)

after that, it was like a game, some guy with fancy weapons was chasing me, also with fancy weapons and skills, through some woods, but i totally get away 'cause i can climb trees and he, for some reason couldn't. then, i'm observing a guy hero wanting to rescue me, a woman who was "kidnapped" by a naga (big snake person), but it turned out that i'd fallen in love with the naga and didn't wanna be rescued.

THEN, the naga turns into some powerful but adorably shy sea snake creature, and we're going back to a family reunion of mine (where, for some reason, i'm Mexican?), but my monster bf gets kidnapped by his bigger, more powerful father, and the rest of that dream is me PREPARING to go and rescue him, but the dream never gets to that point.

then the dream gets CRAZY. I'm staying at the not-actual house of a friend who looks like a mixture of TWO of my old friends, and we're hanging out and watching movies, and it's generally just me having MOVED IN with this friend and her family.

the next thing i know, i'm waking up in the bed in the dream, and it's somehow 2015, but i'm still my current age with my current knowledge. i tell my friend and her family, and all i can focus on to tell them is that trump will win the 2016 election if we don't do something about it. after a little time skip, i guess, i go out with the dad who's helping gather votes from locals in the small town. several people wanna vote for trump, and i throw my knowledge about what will happen if he wins (particularly about how he handled the pandemic) and swayed people to vote blue.

another time skip, and i'm taking the time to go and visit the theatre group that i'm currently a part of, just to talk to the director who i consider my theatre dad and brought back my passion for theatre. i guess my brain just wanted something nice, 'cause it gets wild after this.

the next thing i know, i've become the founder of this protest organization (or something, i don't know what you would call it, a movement?) of a whole group of people holding american flags and rainbow flags, coming up onto the parking lot of some building that will apparently hold trump and some random other democratic presidential candidate, and this building at the time will be where they will count the votes and come to the conclusion about who wins. we're chanting "Free America! Fire Trump!" when we reach the building, i have a spokesperson who holds the megaphone and shouts "I hope he's in there! And that he sees us! And I hope he is terrified!"

because my phone is from the future with me, i get the information faster than everyone else, and i'm the first person to get the election results that trump lost, and me and the whole group burst into cheers and screams, waving our flags. it's the most excited i've ever been in my entire REAL life and it's in a freaking DREAM. I felt so accomplished. some time later, we're in some theatre and holding some award ceremony or something, and there's an assassination attempt on me. i captured one of the guys and he said he was told by "powerful people" to take me out, and i had to hit him with a reality check that those people didn't give a crap about him. and then there was some spiderman action of me holding this guy and swinging around the town...and then i woke up.

my dreams have always been extremely vivid and often disturbing. my senses are present in my dreams, so i do feel things, including pain, and i often have dreams where i'm preparing to do something, or traveling somewhere, but there's never an actual conclusion to what i do, no big fight, no reaching my destination. so, with the protest dream, i think it's the first time (perhaps in a long time) that i've had a dream that actually has a conclusion, and a good one, at that. i woke up feeling proud, like i actually lived that moment and accomplished that goal. i enjoyed the moments previously, of hanging out with my friend (who really was a mixture between a hispanic friend of mine and a black friend of mine, it was weird), and hanging out with the kids of the family i was a part of during the sea snake monster love story.

i'm feeling sick to my stomach from not taking my meds and not sleeping enough. i'll be making something up for breakfast after this and then going to take my daytime meds. i plan on going out today, so i'll get my nighttime meds for tonight. long story short, take your meds and TOTALLY record your dreams, 'cause they can affect you in real life

[unhingedhearties]

This Looks Like It'll Be A Productive Discussion

I know yesterday I said I try to not make boomer jokes, but today was a challenge.

don'tmakefunofthesizedon'tmakefunofthesize

I had to double check that the person who posted this wasn't a man because this is straight up incel moid behavior. I'm surprised she didn't refer to this as Elizabeth's "body count".

Hey look! It's Jennifer

May.

LOLOLOLOLOL YOU NEED TO SHARE IT WITH TPTB

I have a funnier idea, people need to share this screencap of your own Facebook page with you every time you get assblasted.

"Do you know the musical 'Six'?"

No, but I just looked it up and it looks like dogshit. Garbage in, Garbage out I guess.

I'm a little confused. How does a real historical event regarding one piece of shit, fat ass man using patriarchal oppression to kill his wives once he got bored with them/pissed of that they didn't birth him a son relate to a fictional woman being tangentially related to various degrees with a handful of men?

This is what we call a red flag and this person's internet history needs to be checked ASAP.

I may have receipts on this blog of both sides making asses of themselves, but at the moment I've only seen Team Lucas people being gross and weird in regards to the child actors*, so make of that what you will.

*(Never as bad as this post to be fair, it's usually people throwing a temper tantrum on social media posts involving the child actors where they could easily see it).

Sondra's being a lot more generous than I would have been by assuming she's married.

I looked at Kerri's photo (because boomers can't help but post their full names and photos everywhere online) and I'm going to guess that number is 0-1.

And that's not by choice.

Rebekah's just saying what I've been saying this whole time. I'm sure it will fall on deaf ears.

GUYS I'M LITTERALLY ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING MY ASS OFF

Here grandma, I dug through my 20 year old hard drive to dig out an archaic, unfunny meme to match your humor:

"Whoever came up with this ridiculous idea is a toxic and unloved person, devoid of good feelings, the only thing a person like that deserves is pity."

Here, I translated it since I have a feeling they're the kind of people who see "not English" and skip over it instead of taking the two seconds to hit "translate post".

Wow, this is awkward. I don't form weird, parasocial relationships with celebrities online, but if I did, I'd do everything in my power to not embarrass myself in a way that they might see.

Like... do you really think Chris will see this and laugh or do you think he'll see it and cringe at all the 60 year old women lusting after him.

But remember, Team Nathan fans are "Team Mean".

"They sure loved E before the break up though."

Actually, that's a good point. Funny how they didn't mention this trail of... men Elizabeth knew that had things happen to them when they thought they were getting that wedding.

[oneefin]

puzzle rojak solutions are out! i had a lot of great moments with these puzzles and i'll share some of them below. long post with spoilers incoming!

i'll lead by saying that at the time we finished the hunt 100%, we were one of the only teams to have forward solved everything - so we got a very full experience out of the hunt.

ups and downs

this was our first solve of the hunt, we figured out what was going on pretty quickly. shoutouts to DOINK, which isn't a snake or a ladder but we cherish nonetheless:

chemistry test

we thought the answer to this was pretty appropriate to how we (non-chemists) felt about it

pig-tac-toe

this is one of those ideas that's just like. awesome. one very neat, very simple idea with a novel extraction method that feels fresh despite being very puzzle-hunty.

for this one, niv fetched us a pig gif and we had fun conversations about rice

fast time

i had a powerful eureka moment here upon seeing "RED CAR" and shouting "IT'S RUSH HOUR". i didn't know any of these people or about the film called rush hour, so after i said this luny thought i had just popped off and made a movie trivia get for the first time in my life. sadly not

selective sounds detection

our team had the fastest solve on this one! we're all musicians so this was right up our alley

find waldo

we briefly added MIT Mystery Hunt 2024 to our team roster after seeing this, but we left our actual names in there so that other teams would know that it's not part of it. there was another team who actually erased all of their members and left Puzzle Potluck 4, which we figured could be ruled out - but i saw a couple other teams weren't so lucky

shoutouts to galactic trendsetters violet for making and sticking with this play:

jenga

oh boy, onto a real one.

so we knew this was going to be really sprawling. anything that requires you to track the state of something across a span of time usually ends up being pretty complex. i know other teams were notating for efficiency and clarity - but for us it was extremely important that our notation looked beautiful.

that's form over function for ya

we had to finagle with borders a lot when putting this together, but it was totally worth it. i also visualized the tower toppling at the end by screenshotting the final state and rotating it:

zebra puzzle

honestly, i've seen similar things before, but this was still pretty and cool. both halves of the solve were breezy and satisfying, and the extractions just made sense. a picture perfect hunt puzzle

i know my abcs!

i just really liked the numberlink :) also given the restriction placed on this puzzle by the later puzzle i know my patterns!, it's amazing to me that this construction was so potent.

even though it's not a big deal, i gotta say that i'm a bit let down by the aesthetic of the spreadsheets shown on the solution page for this puzzle. ours looks like this:

and theirs looks like this:

(i asked them about this and it's gonna get corrected so horray! ty rojak team)

game theory

this was another really sick idea - not quite as self-contained as pig-tac-toe was, but brilliant nonetheless.

measuring kurrent

loved the moment when we (by we i mean luny) realized what this puzzle was about. had an awesome time piecing together the mechanic at play here, and the google sheet they made for this puzzle is absolutely gorgeous.

six flags

we had no idea what to do with this originally - then we unlocked a few more from this round, realized what was going on, and came back. from there it came together smoothly.

our sheet doesn't contain a visualization of these flags, but it should. we should've done it.

i know my patterns!

i alluded to liking this puzzle earlier in the post, but like wow that was cool. going from matching swatches of dropquote to the abcs grid, noticing that the black squares are all R-Z, and then going "suddenly sudoku????" was amazing, and getting the cluephrase ITS A ME WHO was incredibly powerful, like that's a cluephrase if i've ever seen one

altius meta

this is the sort of meta where we knew that solving it with incomplete information would be very, very hard. so on only five of the six answers, we cranked it out. it was a process of collaborative bifurcation - we managed to eliminate all possibilities of completing the middle grid, meaning that the missing answer had to go there, and then we managed to find the only possible arrangement for the left grid, then the right grid. very fortunate that we managed to extract the right answer from _EAKC_O_O - otherwise it would have been very unsatisfying!

niv then got us the aha for the last puzzle we needed right after finishing :P

communiter meta

ok, one last one. this round was great and i thought this pure meta was a great way to send it home.

i made the realization about the answers to the paired puzzles also having a matching letter that got us to the end, which was super satisfying. maybe there's a world where luny could have anagrammed GILE_ to the right answer, but that would have been less fun

our team finished puzzle rojak 2! i had a great time. i found most of the puzzles to be pretty straightforward in their design - but not so straightforward as to feel stale. the good kind of straightforward :)

we were hovering at placements around the 50s basically the entire time

when the hunt is over i will post goodies from our chat + google sheets logs

[sir-phineas-lost]

TDP Book 4 (at last)

Writing this semi-simultaneously as I watch. Let’s see if they managed to turn this train-wreck around. Spoilers ahead.

First episode is solid, but the best parts were released in clips long ago. Love Terry, love Callum turning Viren-ish. Good stuff.

Second episode also good. Terry being a gross goofball just like Claudia herself makes them a perfect match. It is also a neat parallell between Callum and Claudia as much as Callum and Viren.

I can do without some of the cringe humor though.

Oh wow, sadsack Viren is really helping to restore a lot of his lost nuance.

Third episode is really good. Claudia vs Ibis is our first real magician’s duel and it is awesome. Ezran’s speech was a pleasant surprise about not ignoring anger and overlaying it with the fight had a lot of impact.

Kinda feels like Rayla is saying to Ezran what she should have told Callum right away.

I’m a bit disappointed with Aaravos speech at the Storm Spire. Kinda feels like it would have had more impact if he just let them know he could see them without the whole monologue.

I also really hate the further implication that dark magic just puts someone under Aaravos’s control.

Viren and Terry are a wonderful combination of self-help and murder.

The conflict at Lux Aurea is...eh. Kinda feels like more of the same careless discussion about bigotry without consideration for power dynamics.

Sir Sparklepuff speaks Claudia on a deeper level than even Claudia does.

Love the heart-to-heart between the brodigies, but it feels like a massive missed opportunity to not include Viren more in that conversation. To have Soren talk to his father and confront him about what his gaslighting did to him. In his current state I think Viren’s respose to that would have been fascinating.

Viren says trans-rights. Transphobes get harvested. How is he already a better father to this son than to Soren?

Rex Igneus is a much more fascinating dragon than I would have imagined. His arrogance and casual brutality embodies what I consider the worst in them but he is also more willing to show respect and from his scathing critique of Avizandum it sounds like their fallout came about because he actually sympathized more with humans than Thunder did.

My bady girl (not correcting that typo) is all grown up and casually putting archdragons to sleep. We stan a queen.

Oh holy shit! Those damn coins are actually about to come back into play. But I distinctly remember them being left at the top of the mountain?

Terry steering Claudia back on the right path is wonderful precisely because unlike Soren he doesn’t demand that she changes. He is perfectly fine with her doing morally dubious things but he knows her well enough to tell when she slips from pragmatism into cruelty. Terry doesn’t demand that Claudia changes “for the better”, but he puts up warning flags when she changes for the worse.

Overall I think this season was a big step up from book 3. I’m still dubious about how they are eventually going to tackle the long-standing issues between humans and elves but at least this season did what I was hoping they would do in season 2 and proved that these questions are at least on their minds.

[antiloreolympus]

10 Anti LO Asks

(Note: All of these asks are before episode 206 (Season 2 finale) so some may be dated.) 1. ok but I love Rachel spent the latter half of 2021 being like ooooh Kronos is coming back!! this is a big deal!! only to timeskip ten years and NOTHING happened. like wow even Kronos isn't a big deal when it comes to how totally not pathetic Persephone is as a 30+ year old doing no work and only being obsessed with a guy she knew for a month. literal masterclass in awful writing. It's almost impressive how bad it is.

2. Deadass I don't even get why RS is like oh yeh nymphs and other creatures should be second class citizens but they're also all "trash" and thus its good and even encouraged to abuse and mistreat them. like yeah that's what was missing, racism where the marginalized group are evil and "deserve" to be abused and mistreated by those with all the power over them. THAT's what mythology was so sorely missing.  jfc. I know a lot of the WT staff are white people and so is Rachel but wtf???

3. It's quite funny how a woman old enough to be my mother cannot draw or write worth shit and there are literal teenagers on this website who are a thousand times the artist and writer she could ever hope to be.

4. This isn’t me trying to be mean but like, why is everything from the book covers to the official merch so ,.. cheap looking? Like these are supposed professionals, not Rachel, doing it, yet they’re still so poorly designed and crafted. It doesn’t help the images Rachel gives time to work with are all in the rushed, ugly style now either 😪

5. I just find it funny that every time an LO fan or even WT promotes it its like ... they ONLY use art from the first 10-ish episodes at best. Like yall, that was over four years ago, why aren't you using current art to be more accurate? Like it's kinda telling on themselves they know the quality declined rapidly after the first few months but are like "just ignore that! look at this three good panels from 2018!"

6. I HATE those panels where RS tries to be anatomically correct to IRL humans and its like omg they look even worse (and are still wildly wrong anyway?? She cannot draw heads to save her life for real). Like lady just work within your stylization, there's a reason people picked up your work off what it used to be versus what it is now.

7. this isnt necessarily LO based but I do find it crazy how people like RS and her fans viewed the original hymn like ugh Demeter is such a bitch why wouldnt she be happy Hades married her daughter like .... you guys are aware ancient brides tended to be married at 14, right? maybe that's why Demeter was pissed and creeped out by him. They're so blinded by their fantasy of this "perfect Hades" that never existed over the truth of a mother defending her literal CHILD.

8. Zeus is objectively the only hot man on cast because he actually has a personality, fashion sense, and pretty hair meanwhile Hades just looks like a dusty old man with zero drip and a million and one red flags 🫣

9. "This style of story telling" what style? just lying and making everything up to where it matches nothing in mythology? my god, she's so concerned over looking like a clever writer who has everything planned out and knows more than anyone else (including actual greeks??? ma'am) over actually telling a decent story. ive never seen someone so self conscious about being perceived as a "real writer" before.

10. Why even use mythology when you won't keep any of the stories true to how they were, change all the relationships, and just make up whatever else instead? At that point just go "this was inspired by the greek myths" and use your own OCs, not claiming you're telling an accurate story with a ton of research put into it. Rachel really just wants to have her cake and eat it too, huh?

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i guess they are pretty funky

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Your team prepared themselves as you started your journey to your new destination. You and Abner were talking about random things as you walked.

"You really like the dots?" Abner timidly asked.

"Are you kidding? Of course! You're so colorful," you said quietly with a smile.

Abner smiled to himself before motioning to your outfit. "I like your uniform too, it suits you. It makes your eyes stand out."

"Thank you! Ya know, I always thought you had a really nice nose- whoa, Abner, are you doing alright?" You cut yourself as you faced Abner for the first time during this walking session. He had those glowing dots on his face again.

"Oh! Those?" He was nervously covering his face. "Don't worry about-" splat. Abner tripped over a rogue tree root and fell face first into the mud. As you went to help pick him up, Flag turned around.

"What the hell are you doing?"

Everyone turned around to look at you two, well, minus Cleo, but she was sitting on a fallen tree almost asleep.

"We're tired, Colonel. We need a rest," she whined.

"Goddamn hobbyists," muttered Chris.

Soria turned to Flag, "We cannot stop. We need to hurry if you're going to help my people."

"Hey," DuBois intervened. "We're not here to help your people. But she's right, we gotta keep moving."

"I carry friend?"

"It's okay, Nanaue," Cleo said before turning to Abner. "It's happening to his face again."

"It's nothing, I tripped," he brushed off.

"Hey," Peacemaker said as he shoved Abner back. "Norman Bates, if that shit's contagious, we need to know."

"It's not," Abner tried moving forward before he was pushed again.

"What is it?"

"What's your deal, Chris? Stop pushing people around before I turn into something you're really not gonna like. And what's up with the obscure references?" You were getting fed up with Chris' bullshit.

"Oh yeah? And what's that?"

"I don't know, how about your dead father? The one that killed himself in front of you when you were a kid?"

"How do you-"

"You'd be surprised how much your mom loved recording all your childhood achievements. Your fifth birthday—ring a bell?" Peacemaker had an unreadable expression on his face as you got in his face and lowered your voice. "You wouldn't believe how much information you can get on your hands if you're able to disguise yourself as a high ranking employee in Belle Reve."

Before any of you could make the situation worse, Abner cleared the tension with a sigh.

"It's a... it's an interdimensional virus."

"Fuck is that?" Peacemaker asked after seemingly forgetting what just happened. You think he was trying to not think about it.

"My mother was a scientist at S.T.A.R Labs, and she was obsessed with turning me and my brother and sisters into superheroes."

"Oh, Abner," you softly said as you placed a hand on his arm. Peacemaker looked between the two of you with a hard expression.

"She infected me. Now, if I don't expel the dots twice a day..."

DuBois asked, "Then what?"

Abner made a face that was hard to read as he said, "They'll eat me alive." He then chuckled dryly as if he himself couldn't believe it.

"What happened to your brother and sisters?" Flag questioned.

"Some lived. Some... died."

Cleo, now standing, asked, "And your mom, where is she now?"

Abner looked to you before turning to his team.

"Almost everywhere."

Everyone just looked at Krill for a few moments.

"Okay," Flag turned around. "Let's move out."

"Come on, we must hurry, or we'll be late to meet my contact," Soria ushered.

Sooner or later, well, later, you made your way to this blockade where a driver in a large van was being investigated. During your trip Abner had to expel the dots, and although he was embarrassed about the situation, you and Cleo tried keeping his mind off it. The soldiers surrounded the van after a minute and started banging on the door. That was your cue.

Peacemaker started taking people out with a silenced pistol, Bloodsport shot with his arm crossbow, and King Shark ate a guy. The rest of the team moved from their hiding spots once the soldiers were dealt with. Success.

Bloodsport banged on the van's window before asking, "Are you Milton?"

The driver choked out a tearful "Si."

After Soria directed him to a nearby pull off spot, you started looking at the contents in the boxes that were pulled out.

"Milton will drive you through town and to La Gatita Amable. There are clothes in the boxes for all of you so you can blend in." Cleo started putting on a random pair of sunglasses as you pulled out a fedora. Soria continued, "That said, the walking tiburon is gonna have to stay out of sight."

"I wear disguise," Nanaue said.

"Ohhh," Cleo drawled. "You're going to wear a disguise?"

"Si."

"Hey, he's learnin' Spanish," Peacemaker said offhandedly.

"And what kind of disguise?"

"Fake mustache," he said smugly.

"Yeah," DuBois interrupted as he moved more boxes. "Fake mustache isn't gonna cut it, mate."

"Aww come on," you cooed. "What if he wears a hat?" The fedora you picked up earlier was now sitting on the King of the Ocean's head.

"You still look exactly like yourself."

"That's the worst fake mustache I've ever seen," Chris added.

"And if you had fooled us, we'd have to kill you, shark-shaped bloke with a mustache creepin' up on us like that."

"FUCK!" Nanaue yelled as he stomped off. You snickered before turning to Abner with some clothes in your hand.

"What do you think?"

"Hmm? Oh, those look nice, although I saw something in another box that I thought you might like. Let me go get it."

As he walked away towards another box, you dropped the clothes you were holding as your face softened. Someone saw something and thought of you? That hasn't happened for a very long time. You started sifting thoughtfully through a nearby box when he came back.

"Here," he showed you the clothes. "I hope you like it." It was sweet how anxious he was getting over this. He must not socialize often.

Taking the clothes from him, you observed the material. It was... actually really good. It was something you would've loved to wear if you weren't forced to wear that stupid prison outfit, and it looked like it'd fit.

"Abner, this is great! It's a lot better than what I was originally going with," you laughed. "Oh! Here, I saw these pants and thought it would match the shirt you picked up."

"Thank you," he said shyly.

"I'm gonna change over there. Stand watch, please?"

How could he say no to you? "Of course," he said while respectfully turning around. As he waited, Peacemaker appeared.

"(L/n) around?"

"Huh?" Abner said, startled from Chris's sudden presence. "Uh, yeah, they went over there to change into their disguise. I'm looking out for them."

"Oh, you're looking out for them? Well look out for this, Patrick Bateman," Peacemaker wasn't looking so peaceful as he leaned in towards Abner. Dropping his voice, he continued. "I don't know what you think is going on between you two, but leave it, you understand me? Why would The Mimic want to go for someone as lame as you? You throw polka dots at people?" Peacemaker scoffed before finishing, "Quit getting in my way, or else."

Stay away from you? There was no way he could do that. You were seemingly the only person who liked him, and now he would have to end that? Fuck that.

Abner, admittedly with a little less confidence than what he hoped for, challenged him. "Or else what?"

Gosh, three words and his heart was already pumping.

"Excuse me?" Chris raised a brow.

Luckily before anything could be done, you emerged oblivious from the jungle while dawning your new attire. Your uniform was neatly folded and tucked under your arm. Both men looked at you and... wow. Abner was speechless. Literally. For the second time within you knowing him, you made his breath hitch.

"You look stunning," Peacemaker quickly said before Abner had a chance. That wouldn't really matter since your response was quite the cockblocker.

"Thanks! Abner picked it out for me," you smiled. You even gave a twirl to show off the outfit to your teammates. Abner just looked at you with such affection in his eyes.

"Anyways, your turn," you ordered as you took Krill's watching place so he could change. Peacemaker tried making some move on you, but you were clueless. Instead, you went into Mission Mode™ and discussed some tactics and strategies you could implement. Sighing, Chris humored you and joined your planning. Not too long later, Abner walked out with his disguise on.

"I'm not sure about this," he said while standing awkwardly.

"You look like an idio-"

"You look great!" you voiced over Peacemaker. "I love those pants on you."

"Really?"

"Yeah," you laughed. "They're funky."

"I-" Krill let out a laugh of his own. "Yeah, I guess they are pretty funky."

"Alright, well, we've gotta get back to the van," you announced while walking away. Abner blindly followed you with a dumb little smile on his face while leaving Chris just standing there in disbelief.

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Harley Quinn for character thingy! :D

Gonna start this off with the fact that I will probably be talking about the Harley Quinn in the DCEU and Harley Quinn in the comics kinda interchangeably. Love them both!

How I feel about this character: 

I love her! She's a badass, she's a psychiatrist, she's insane, she's an acrobat, she has a cute accent, she loves animals, she escaped her toxic partner in all the media she's been in now.

I love that she brings her PhD and acrobatics into fights, it really scratches my brain. Also I love her outfits in Birds of Prey and genuinely want to wear a few of them.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: 

Poison Ivy and Harley, pretty much every iteration and that's about it. Maybe a little Gotham City Sirens ot3 too.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: 

Her and Rick Flag (even though I think he's a little overrated shh), they're surprisingly wholesome. A friendship that just exists in my head right now is Harley and Adrian Chase from Peacemaker; I just think they'd be neat and also my bisexual ass needs them fighting together (or each other, I'm not picky).

Also her and Power Girl from the comics are a cute brotp (and Harley has a very obvious very cute crush on her).

My unpopular opinion about this character: 

I think Harley can be really cool and fun in the right hands or really badly written because she's just there to be sexualized (ahem ss 2016 ahem). Also I don't like Harley's voice in her animated show very much, the show's still fun and no hate to the actress because I think she's good, but the accent is pretty much non-existent and I love Harley's accent, which is a big reason why I love Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn, she nails the accent. And one more very important thing, Harley should leave the Joker in literally every media they're in because he's horrible to her and she deserves better.

Also not sure if this is an unpopular opinion but I've seen a lot of people say they don't like it. I liked Harley in The Suicide Squad! People think she's being written as dumb but I don't think so honestly. I just think that through most of the movie she's suffering through hallucinations and mania probably because of being shocked so much.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

I wish that we could see DCEU Harley with Zoë Kravitz's Catwoman with a DCEU Ivy. It's kinda dumb to me that for some reason The Batman isn't connected to the DCEU so I will continue to pretend it is (also in my head it's also connected to the Gotham universe shhh). Also want to see her and Ivy's relationship in the DCEU! As well as at least some references to Harley being Jewish.

my OTP:

Harlivy, Harley and Ivy. There are no other Harley ships actually.

my cross over ship:

Back in my cringe repressed bisexual who didn't know queer people existed phase I used to ship Deadpool and Harley. But now I see them as more of a brotp. I just think they'd share jokes and brutalize some goons together and look good doing it. Also matching color schemes go brrr.

a headcanon fact:

She's bisexual (canon), she's Jewish (canon but needs to be mentioned more in the DCEU), she's trans, she has ADHD (just like me fr fr), she has BPD, she played baseball when she was young which is why she loves using a baseball bat as a weapon. She doesn't wear her glasses or contacts post Ace Chemicals because she can't fight well in them so she just goes nearsighted and doesn't give much of a shit (because I do this, she's just like- *gunshot*)

(anyways)

She wanted to be a vet growing up (being an animal lover) but then realized, like many of us, that shits wrong in her brain so she's gotta figure that out and wow this stuff is interesting! Boom psychiatrist.

She partied in college but also studied hard and knows everything there is to know about the human brain.

She has two little brothers she loves a lot and basically raised as a kid but hasn't seen them since her relationship with the Joker.

Contrary to popular belief she's very empathetic as a psychiatrist but covers a lot of that with humor and comedy which she watched a lot of growing up.

She wanted to join the circus at one point in high school which is why she got into acrobatics but cue the *I learned acrobatics and all I got was this toxic pretentious clown* shirt.