#yes I know I'm stretching

[geeky-nightphilosopher]

Okay- but...

Has anyone else noticed that at least with Dean Devlin- Christian Kanes characters all have some sort of ties to each other?

I mean:

Eliot Spencer; A military bred, mercenary trained, with multiple aliases- with a specific skill set, con-artist.

Jacob Stone; An art historian, with multiple aliases, genius brain, eidetic memory (?), librarian.

Alex Walker; con-artist, with multiple aliases, an eye for detail, retired giftshop owner.

The characters might not be the same but there still enough for them to be long lost triplets or something.

[ducktracy]

a short placing heavy emphasis on Hungarian Rhapsody No. II is a rite of passage for golden age cartoons. Bugs Bunny did it! Tom and Jerry did it! Daffy and Donald! but one thing Woody Woodpecker has above the competition is that he is held hostage by a group of gangsters and is forced to entertain, lest he get executed. amazing

[r0semultiverse]

Hey, Jake & Jack fans, is this anything?

Both men imprisoned (literal & metaphorical).

Both offered an out from their current predicament by an outside force (arguably in the case of Brain Ghost Dirk).

Both have loose ties to Lord English visually.

Yellow initial glow & Gamzee involvement too.

Sometimes a guy just needs to explode (same pose too).

Both dual wielding weapons.

That same said weapon type (for Jack Noir) having killed Jane Crocker.

It's really looking like Jake is going to do her in.

I would also like to point out that we've had interactions involving these three (Jane, Jake, and Brain Ghost Dirk) before that consisted of similar topics & themes.

Brain Ghost Dirk implying that he's just there as moral support, a manifestation of Jake's powers, and as a coping mechanism. Jane also talking about ruling an empire with him while talking down to him, similar to how she saw and/or still sees him in Beyond Canon's Candy timeline. Jake also being uncertain about doing anything to harm her despite all the bad things she's doing.

Brain Ghost Dirk going away tells us that Jake's more hopeful than he's ever been. This is the moment where he is the most sure of his decisions than he's ever been in his life, whatever those decisions may be in regards to Jane and how to handle this situation.

He is probably going to shoot Jane down, quite literally. I would also argue that after all this time, the lad isn't beating the Lord English allegations. We might as well have a parallel of him killing Jane much like how Jack Noir killed her right before he got possessed by Lil Cal & given some of Lord English's immense power.

Alternatively maybe we'll get to see what the power of hope or hope bullets can do to someone whose done so much wrong & come so far off the deep end in terms of moral wrongdoings. Maybe with every shot that hits her, she'll begin to be swayed to the side of good & start to self-reflect.

I'm still not fully convinced that Gamzee actually cured Tavros' peanut allergy, I mean just look at the panel.

This could absolutely be interpreted as Jake injecting his hope power into the epipen and by proxy injecting both his power & the epipen into his son! If younger Jake is strong enough to defeat Grimbark Jade, then adult Jake might just be strong enough to defeat a peanut allergy is all I'm saying! In fact, now that I'm rambling about it, this seems like the more likely outcome is Jake's hope power swaying or (in the very least) confusing Jane mid-fight. Hope bullets, they would look cool & would be pretty strong!

The power of believing in others & wanting things to change can be a strong tool indeed, Mister English.

If there's one person who still believes in changing Jane's mind (or bringing her back to proper canonicity depending on how you interpret the recent lore), it would be Jake English, the believer.

Okay, maybe this is something! Tally ho!

[number-1-kuaidul-fanboy]

Peak dynamic of all time ever:

Person A: Big scary figure everyone's afraid of or hates.

Person B: Tiny silly ray of sunshine who thinks person A is just the cutest/sweetest thing ever.

And Kuaidul/my OC Hawk hehe. Feel free to tell me anymore examples! This dynamic is my bread and butter!

[thisshitisridiculous]

no matter what happens this season it's honestly just making me so excited to watch it play out knowing that the creators and actors are fully aware of buddie and actively support it like 2010s queerbaited me dreamed of times like these

[transyashiro]

Favorite media you’ve engaged with lately?

mouthwashing

[lighthouseshepard]

its just me and the tiny tropical house gecko in the top right corner of my bedroom ceiling against the world

[nguyenfinity]

Every time I draw Mamagi it does AoE damage (I am also in the area of effect)

Lighthearted bonus:

[mobius-m-mobius]

wdym that's not how the scene went

[queerplatonicdiaries]

squish ramble

this probably isn't gonna make much sense bc I'm kinda sleepy but I just. I love them so fucking much. we just called for like an hour an a half and for those moments everything else disappeared. all the stress, all the worries, it all seems so much lighter just because I know I have them in my life and we can talk about anything. that feeling of complete ease and comfort when we're together, even if it's over a patchy phone signal, there's nothing else in the world that could replace it. the feeling of being seen and heard and understood entirely, the knowledge that we have each other and we're going to be okay. I know we're still young, but I hope we have this for the rest of our lives. I think as long as I have them, everything else will be alright. I love them and I love loving them, it's the best feeling in the world <3

[lotrmusical]

My high school did a yearly poetry recitation contest (Poetry Out Loud), so Oh Boy do I know some poems. My favorites are Ozymandias and "the world is about to end and my grandparents are in love," by Kara Jackson. Also in 8th grade we had a Poe unit and had a class contest to make the best music video of the Raven, so I still know a good chunk of that.

i hadn't heard of the kara jackson one! just read through it and enjoyed it, particularly these lines > 'grandma returns to her love like a hymn, marks it with a color. // when the world ends will it suck the earth of all its love? /will i go taking somebody’s hand, / my skin becoming their skin?'

[sskk-manifesto]

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[homosociallyyours]

Never gonna get over the fact that if I hadn't gotten sick I might actually be able to afford to live alone and have the second room in this apartment as a guest room. Never. Having a housemate who's not a partner low-key sucks.

[fist-amidst-the-hands]

hi hi okay imagine. stede wants to brush out ed's hair the way izzy always does. maybe izzy is busy on deck taking note of damages after a raid. maybe they had an infestation and he's going over ration spoilage and inventory with roach. ed is tired and cranky and absentmindedly separating sections of curls and tugging them apart at the bottom where they get stuck together in knots. stede offers to help with the tangles, says he would love to give it a go and help ed relax

izzy walks in a few minutes later and immediately comes up and tells stede he's doing it all wrong but also gently takes the brush from him and shows him the right way - where to hold the hair, how to start at the bottom with little sections and work his way up, when to start with his fingers instead of the brush. neither of them can see it but ed is smiling so much his face might actually burst

[nerdyfangirlingbooks]

I feel like I've seen a lot of people on tiktok criticising Yuki Tsunoda and his apology for saying the r word, claiming that "he knew how to use it of course he knew what it meant" and like ???

English is my first language. I grew up using that word, in the same way I grew up hearing people call something "gay" if it was bad. I still hear the r word somewhat regularly. Like two weeks ago at work someone talked about "getting fucking r*****ed" and they just meant getting really drunk.

Until a couple of years ago I had no idea that it was a slur for autistic people. I only found out because I am on english speaking, fairly progressive, fairly neurodivergent sides of the internet. Before then, I still knew it was a rude way to call someone stupid, and if I had been asked to use it in a sentence I could've. Still didn't know its origins or what it actually means though. And again, I am a native english speaker.

Yes, he said a word he shouldn't have. Yes, the FIA did the right thing in fining him. But no, I don't think it's fair to be calling him a liar when he says he didn't know what it means just because he used it "in context". Because yeah sure he thought he knew what it meant, and that definition lends itself to being used in exactly the same way as its actual meaning, but that doesn't mean he knew it's used as a slur.

Tldr, give people the benefit of the doubt. If someone does a bad thing but apologises and claims they didn't know when they're told it was bad, believe them until they do it again. One mistake does not make a terrible person. Go outside and touch some grass, maybe it'll give you some more perspective on life

[jensonsbuttons]

gonna watch turkey 2020 to feel something