#ymmv of course

[leashybebes]

i think the reason i am so obsessed with tommy is like... okay, prefacing all of this with "much of this is head canon/extrapolation from canon/my standard over identification with fictional characters. i don't expect other folks to see him the same way". also, as i wrote this i was like "huh, pretty sure i've said this before in slightly different words" so feel free to keep scrolling in search of an original thought i guess lol

i love to love. i love to look after people. i love to give them affection. i love to do things that broadcast loud and clear "hey! hey you! i care about you!" i have always struggled with letting people do the same for me. if anything was going to derail my current relationship early on, it would have been that - without intending to, i take away people's agency by not giving them opportunities to do those things for me. it's a fucked up way to be - to give and give and give, and to stop other people from giving back. it creates an imbalance, an inequality, that means a relationship is not going to last, and if it does last, it'll be bad.

i keep gnawing at a line in a wip i have about tommy post-breakup meeting a new guy and thinking that he likes the guy's sharp edges and that he didn't give buck a chance to show any sharp edges because they spent six months having amazing sex and Being Cute. he was Doing Boyfriend Things. and i don't think it was fake, as such. but i think it was surface. he gave affection and he gave care, and you can give all of those things without every really giving anything of yourself.

i think, given the chance, buck would have been a great partner to tommy. but i don't think, based on what we saw, that he was given that chance. he was given the chance for a soft landing into his first (apparently unexamined) queer relationship. he was given the chance to be adored and to be a little demanding and a little bratty. he was given the chance to be looked after. just going on what we've seen on screen, it doesn't look like he was given the chance to be a partner.

so maybe it wasn't just that tommy thought buck needed/would want to explore other options somewhere down the line (and here's where we veer into head canon territory) but maybe it was that that weird ass conversation made him think - oh, he doesn't see me. oh, i've been here before. and maybe he's been there with someone less adorable than buck. someone who was more intentional about taking and taking, someone who didn't or wouldn't have given back, given the chance. and he knows how that ends. it ends with giving more and more of yourself, and getting less and less back. it ends with someone you thought you loved barely seeing you at all, it ends with you being Someone's Boyfriend. it ends with "tommy? who? yeah, that guy's boyfriend, right?" because you've made yourself into a source of someone else's comfort and security and you look down and realise there's nothing underneath your feet. it ends with resentment that you don't feel like you deserve to feel because you can't be mad that they don't take care of you when you've never showed them that you need taking care of.

so i think that's the tragedy of it for me. it really would have worked - if tommy was able to take. if buck was given a chance to give. there's not anyone to blame, unless you want to go through their lives and their histories and find the things and the people who made them the people who they are.

[mksolomon1]

The Bad Batch, Season 2, The Tipping Point

Hemlock speaks here of Omega, but his statement applies just as well to Emerie, who gazes at him as if he’s the light of her life.

There’s something creepy going on here.

[hmslusitania]

I love. An adaptation. That treats the characters and concepts as paramount. And the original plot as set dressing to be altered at will. Rather than holding The Plot as the most sacred aspect to bring forward and pulling a hatchet job on everything else to make it fit within the constraints of the new medium.

[thevikingwoman]

no, sorry, I've actually never disliked a character because of their fans

[starry-mist]

8, 11, 16, 18

Alright, for the “choose violence ask game” y’all are apparently going to ask me to think deep thoughts, so here goes:

8 - common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

This likely applies more to the Facebook fans than Tumblr, because Tumblr folks get it, but the idea that the title of the show means it’s all about Charlie and Rex. It is and always has been an ensemble, found family show.

11 - number of fandom-related words you've filtered

None. Perks of a small fandom, I guess?

16 - you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

The idea of Jesse and Karma as a couple.

18 - it’s absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

The relationship between Sarah and Rex. Seriously. It’s such a strong bond and I love them.

[mystybelle]

Outside of a context where we're studying the phenomena so we can better mitigate the effects of bigotry and eradicate them, it's better to speak to your crowd.

Call bigots, stupid cunts.

Speak their language.

When they're ready to learn, if ever, explain the details then. But it's okay to call them self centered assholes, or mean spirited cockwaffles right now.

You'll feel better for having let it out too.

GRADE SCHOOL SJWS stop using social justice language to explain shit to your conservative parents IT’S NOT GONNA GO THROUGH now all they have are some new words to make fun of. don’t tell your mom she’s being fatphobic tell her she’s being a dick

[writer-ish]

I don't know, I think the Sex slave interpretation fits. The MC is on auction in a supernatural Human Trafficking ring. They're about to be sold for whatever purposes and for M to make a joke about using the MCs body fits the idea of sex slave. Plus other people in the auctions audience instantly understand what M means when making the joke.

I mean, I get the joke. And the way I took it when I first read it worked for me (possessive "she's mine (if she'll have me)" levels of longing/desire), so I refuse to consider any other options now 😂 But if I do think about it a bit more, I don't know that I love it.

It just feels like M and your Detective should be past that kind of silly innuendo by now? And he should be more fearful/protective of the Detective and not making jokes in a completely sexual way in that moment.

To me, as a joke, it fell flat. If it's interpreted as earnest and … territorial(?) then maybe it works. But as an "ehh?? ehhhh???" elbow-jabbing insinuation - meh.

Thanks for your thoughts 🥰

[thenorthseasings]

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[eyeronmaus]

[katie5000]

Ah, that's because professors at universities aren't really teachers - they're researchers who also happen to teach sometimes. And many of them aren't teaching because they want to, they're doing it because they have to - oftentimes the university in question will have stipulations in their contracts (or elsewhere) that they have to teach "x" number of classes in return for (or as part of) the university supporting their research.

I think with community colleges the emphasis is much more on teaching and learning - they serve a much broader base consisting of many different kinds of people with many different goals. It's not just for scholars who want to do research, and so the professors there tend to be much more engaged with their students.

Community college professors: this semester with all of you has been a great experience and a major example of dynamic exchanging of opinions. Exemplary work, everyone. Enjoy your well deserved summer break and feel free to reach out to me if you need absolutely anything in the future; letter of recommendation, shadowing, or even a simple question from future frameworks you’re studying. Thank you for such a great semester.

University professors: grades have been submitted. Get Outlook for iPhone

[mamawasatesttube]

not to be a bitch but like. i can never take "ohhhh kon is soOOoOoo sad about tim/ber uwaahhhh he's in love with tim but it's unrequited waaahhhh" angst seriously because like... i get it, the only thing you know about kon is that he's the other half of a popular m/m tim ship, but uh. rebirth kon is living an existential fucking nightmare. i think he's got way bigger fish to fry than whether the tim who only kind of remembers him at all is dating some other guy lmao

[threebea]

Listen, Ray Park is Scottish, so I feel like somehow that needs to translate into Darth Maul being a half or quarter Stewjoni-Zabrak on his father's side since popular fanon is Stewjon is Space Scotland.

Consider: Stewjon isn't just a human planet and there is a very large zabrak population. Maybe former Dathomir male Zabrak that split from their community made a home there, or maybe that's where they originated from.

Does this change anything? No both Obi-Wan and Maul are raised Jedi and Sith respectively, and Maul, before Sidious showed up, was a Night Brother, but for fanfics I think it's a fun idea that could be expanded on.

Like they're distant cousins and they both are legally required to attend a funeral for reasons, or going into the stewjoni sithspawn aus, or they have an arranged marriage neither of them knew about between their families before they were even born. The first born Kenobi was to marry the second Oppress etc etc. YMMV.

[rebecca-liz]

#kids crying in stores r usually crying bc theyre cold as fuck esp little babies

...huh. Huh. I think you're on to something here, because it would explain why I've had exactly two (2) supermarket meltdowns in three and a half child-years of parenting - until the kid is like 8, 9 months old I have them in a wrap carrier so they're close and warm, and by the time they're sat in the trolley they know what's up.

(one of the meltdowns was because the kid was in meltdown mode anyway but I wouldn't have the chance to get dinner before dinner otherwise)

i understand toddlers cuz if i was just born a couple years ago and someone tried to get me to understand and say words while i'm growing insane amounts of teeth very quickly and painfully i'd be having a temper tantrum on the floor of a department store too

[ladyofthenoodle]

the ladybug and black cat are the two most powerful miraculous because of the wish

the ladybug and black cat are the two most powerful miraculous because of the wish

when they say that they’re the most powerful miraculous in the show they’re not saying they’re the most effective in battle or that their holders are meant to be equals in every way, it’s about the wish. it’s about the power to combine them to change reality. so no the black cat holder doesn’t need to have an equal number of magic powers as the ladybug because that statement isn’t about the holders. and yes some of the other holders like the rabbit might have more effective powers than the holders of the ladybug and black cat. it’s not about that. it’s about the magic jewelry themselves.

[mariocki]

Una lucertola con la pelle di donna (A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, 1971)

"You dream of having an affair with this woman who lives next door. To you, that woman represents sin, moral degradation. The house next door is a symbol of vice. From what you've told me, Mrs. Durer is not exactly respectable."

"No... she certainly is not."

[vaguely-concerned]

I listened to the first episode of vows and vengeance and... god. god forget waiting for veilguard, how the fuck am I going to survive the wait between each episode of this???? tl;dr: I loved it, I love dragon age, I love audio dramas, I love voice acting and music, I love thedas, I am IMMEDIATELY painfully invested. if nadia doesn't get her sweet fancy lad back whole and unharmed by the end of this I am killing everyone in tevinter and then myself.

more thoughts under the cut! not a lot of deep analysis just flailing and feelings today haha

I hadn't realized that elio would be a magister! idk if it was in any marketing beforehand, but if so I didn't pay enough attention to remember it lol. he sounds like he might be prime lucerni-material politically, so I'm a little sad we didn't get even a subtle dorian or maevaris easter egg in there, as far as I could tell, but hey, you can't have everything. (honestly unless BIG changes are upon us (which tbf they probably are) it might be just as well that this went down as it did, b/c I'm not sure how long elio would survive in the magisterium that we've heard tell of, he's quite -- either soft and shortsighted, or politically reckless, I think nadia was right there.)

I found nadia, elio and their dynamic very effectively introduced -- the fact that they haven't quite figured out how to be good to each other yet but so clearly both desperately want to be and are willing to work for that is a smart place to start the story. it makes it feel all the sadder if they never get the chance to work it all out, because I think they could have every chance to, given the time.

The voice actors for the central characters are all wonderful (orin's was. fine! doing a good enough job with a slightly more thankless role, let's call it that.) also so nice to hear people humming the tavern songs we heard in inquisition. god I love thedas I'm so glad we're getting to go right back in there soon

The episode was longer than I thought they would get, and it was all the better for it! I'm so happy it seems they'll get the space they need to tell this story, especially since nadia appears to be setting out on quite a continent-spanning odyssey here (I'm so sorry about your life nadia)

SOLAS solas solas! solas. solas!!!! he is such a BITCH and I love him so much. he is being aggressively himself and I didn't realize just how much I'd missed him. no one gets me frustrated quite like you baby you know better than this I KNOW you could know better than this why do you never learn a single thing I know you have the capacity somewhere in there. patron saint of endlessly fucking up. WHERE do you get off being condescending to nadia when all your ~*brilliant*~ plans backfire catastrophically on you every single time solas. yeah of course you're sorry, and you fucking better be, if she stabbed you I'd be sad but also like 'yeah I mean you had that one coming sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯' about it!!! what the fuck. come home please

such a weird feeling to have him be an ominous stranger on the road to elio and nadia while I was standing there with my arms crossed and my foot tapping irritably like 'oh so now he shows his face, there he is. my husband. my ex-husb -- my nemesis and poor little meo -- it's complicated alright. he's in the dog house, but the dog house he's in is still mine'. I do adore how unstoppably solas clearly wants to be a teacher, he works so hard to be mysterious and aloof but the lonely insufferable chatterbox knowitall jumps out at every turn.

neve trying and almost succeeding in freezing the whole bay I'm

like. okay then! much to think about

the only thing I'm not a big fan of is the characters calling out in-game spells in sort of a self-indulgent way, but hell if I know how else you'd communicate exactly what's going down magically in an audio format like this so y'know. very easily forgiven from my side honestly