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Love each other for the weekend 💛

#Reylo #rey #kylo ren #ben solo #star wars

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He always touches her without gloves, because it’s Ben.

 Big revelations in the #reylevator Full image and all the others panels on my patreon https://patreon.com/posts/67350195

#Reylo #rey #kylo ren #ben solo #star wars

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Considering the importance of height in Irken Society, I kinda wonder about that moment where Purple calls Zim short in front of the entire Irken military. I kinda headcanon that because Zim just stares blankly during that moment it's actually so humiliating he disassociates and instantly wipes it from his memory.

#invader zim #Youtube

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It’s so funny how many fictional characters have Rogues Galleries and/or supporting casts who are like, darker reflections of themselves. Like they're [Main Character] but worse. Y'know, it’s good for the Themes. But meanwhile Zim is already so Baseline Terrible that instead he’s surrounded with characters who reflect him by being better versions of himself. "Zim but less awful"

Like, Dib is Zim but trying to stop Space Imperialism rather than contributing to it. Tak is Zim but hypercompetent. And Skoodge is Zim if Zim lacked his most defining trait and most crippling flaw - his self-deluded ego.

Skoodge and Zim seem to be the shortest Irkens to have been ever reached the Invader rank - they both must’ve been highly capable to make it through the Irken Societal Bias against the short. But of the two of them, only Skoodge is grounded enough to actually demonstrate it. While Zim’s ego and all that stern from it - the delusions, the absolute lack of threat-assessment, the inability to think ahead - makes him an incompetent bumbler despite all of skills.

On the other hand, Skoodge is the most competent Invader actually on the Empire’s payroll (Tak might be more competent but she’s actually less of a Real Invader then Zim is, so…). And yet… this lack of ego also makes him the Empire’s (and sometimes Zim’s) punching bag despite all of his skills. 

And, like, Skoodge isn't necessarily insecure. Especially right after his successful conquest of Blorch, he seems to have, like, a reasonable amount of healthy self-confidence you'd expect from someone who has achieved what he did.

He's just not as selfishly self-obsessed and absolutely disconnected from reality like Zim is. He is actually capable of distinguishing between the Empire's will and his own desires, he is capable of reasonably asserting threats, he does actually notice when he is being led into an Obvious Death Trap.

Even if the Irken culture of absolute obedience means he still has to go along with it.

Zim might be, you know, incapable of consciously recognizing that the Tallests hate him.... but his ego and his disconnect from reality actually allows him to put his own desires and his self-preservation instinct before the express orders of the Tallests by just... forgetting that they happened.

When I talk about the idea that Zim has all the traits the Irken Empire values (minus height) just twisted to unreasonable extremes - that’s the kind of thing I’m talking about. To survive in the Irken Empire you need to have some amount of ego and self confidence and self-interest. Being just a loyal vessel of the Empire

Just marks you as someone that can be easily exploited. No matter your other skills. Zim’s attitude is far too much on the other extreme - but it is not alien to Irken society at all. You're gonna need it to survive.

Skoodge is also a nice reminder how truly futile Zim’s desire for approval from the Tallests really is. Even if he was somewhat capable of recognizing his own flaws, even if he was capable of conquering Earth, even if he could wow everyone in the Empire with the greatest Invasion in known history - the only thing that will change is that instead of being hated and punished for being the Worst Thing to Ever Happen to the Empire he’d just be hated and punished for being short. 

#invader zim #skoodge #invader skoodge

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It's moving day and Zim is not sure he's going to survive.

#Invader Zim #ZADR

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#zelda #legend of zelda #loz #tloz

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Not picking up this series was the crime of the century.

Invader Zim “The Trial” fans, you know what to do! 😉

(HEADS UP: Disney copyright struck the Amphibia pilot, so I recommend downloading this video!)

I would also like to mention that, although I don’t know how Ms. Goldberg currently feels about the series, Mr. Vasquez has stated recently on one of his livestreams that he doesn’t want to create the series as he said how media has become over saturated with multiverse stories, though he also mentioned it would have been cool to have been one of the first creators to get into the genre before it took off.

Although this reason is why he no longer wishes to create the series, it still holds a place in his heart. Jhonen went on to say how he implemented aspects of VIH into his other works. (One of my theories is that Recap Kid from the Invader Zim comics was a substitute for Frolie.)

With all this said, I’m happy that we finally got to see at least a little bit of what Mr. Vasquez and Ms. Goldberg were planning on creating. Hopefully this pilot drop will bring the Very Important House fanbase some closure

#very important house #jhonen vasquez #Jenny Goldberg

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My neighbors cat risking it all for some scritches

(Source)

#cats #kitties #kitter-pies #cute things

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i enjoy the idea of kurama being a sour/petty loser (or ig more so a cheater) lowkey like he'll be hanging out with yusuke and they'll be gaming and messing around and the second it looks like yusuke is about to win, he doesn't even hesitate to grab the nearest throw pillow and smack it against yusuke's face to cause him to get distracted and hopefully lose

he doesn't seem like he'd be all that childish but he is when he's with his friends, like he's ridiculous

a conversation at some point im sure:

yusuke: what the- you cheated!

kurama: so?

yusuke: what do you mean so??? you cheated!!!

kurama: at no point did you say i couldn't cheat

yusuke: WHAT THE HELL MAN

hiei: he is right... detective, in a matter of death, all is fair

kuwabara: uh this is dance dance revolution

#yyh #yu yu hakusho

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on that note why is there NO medical privacy in Starfleet? there's like no private exam rooms or hospital beds in any sickbays. random people walk into the room in the middle of exams all the time and the doctors will just share diagnoses in a room full of people. like wtf what if I didn't need my supervisor knowing that I have IBS or im pregnant with an alien or whatever????? captains will just ask doctors for updates on someone's condition and immediately get them?

#star trek

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#Invader Zim #ZADR

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Colored version! And look whose eyes aren't red anymore...

#Invader Zim #ZADR

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Zim's type is vampire Dib

#Invader Zim #ZADR

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The Rules:

Every twenty-four hours there will be another round. After every round, the ship in last place will be eliminated.

If there are multiple ships tying for last place, there will be a special elimination round. In these rounds, every ship in last place will be eliminated, even if all the ships have tied equally.

When there are only two ships remaining, they will face off against one another in a week-long poll to determine the victor.

If the ship that you consider the best isn't listed here, hit the 'the best polarizing ship is ___' option and reply to this post with the overlooked ship. The ship with the highest 'write-in' votes will be added to the next round. Unless the 'the best polarizing ship is ___' option is the least voted for, in which case it will be eliminated.Welcome to the party, VaderLuke/AniLuke!

Addendum to Rule 4: Only polarizing ships are allowed. Yes, I'm sure your OTP is awesome, but if there's no proof of it being polarizing then it unfortunately cannot be added to the poll.

This is all for fun. Don't take it too seriously ;)

Good-Bye Gingerrose!

…everyone has a different love language. Rose Tico’s is biting.

Onwards to Round Five!

#star wars #reylo #fare thee well #gingerrose #gone too soon

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So I'm getting near the end of Jane Eyre and I've gotten to the part where St. John proposes. And the way he talks about being entitled to her because it was what god wanted and her rejecting him is therefore a rejection of god is so eerily similar to a villain I wrote whose motives were based on people like Papa Pilgrim and the guy who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart. People who used religion to justify their crimes because "God said I could do it. He put these girls/women on this earth specifically for me, to have. He wanted that for me, therefore I had a right to take them. The real criminals are those who would deny me what God said was rightfully mine." Like, the only difference is St. John thinks Jane exists for him because he isn't attracted to her at all and thinks that's a good thing because he considers it a sacrifice to have a passionless marriage and sacrifice/suffering/self-denial = a one way ticket heaven and pleasure/indulgence/comfort/ease = sin.

And like, I think St. John is explicitly identified as a Calvinist, who even Jane thinks is like, kind of a wackjob, even though she's highly religious too. Which is exactly what most of British society thought of people like that back in the 1600s, which is why they ended up getting kicked out of England and ending up in America, where that kind of theological philosophy is normalized to this day.

#jane eyre #st john rivers #this is an anti st john rivers post #fuck that guy

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It annoys me that fans & even the ATLA narrative treat Katara’s crush on Jet as if she was simply being silly and shallow. Yes, he was tall and attractive…but he’s also responsible for an entire community of orphans? Maybe after years of parentification, she feels very connected to someone who also had to think about feeding and clothing people and generally keeping them alive? Maybe she admires a boy who seemed to have taken on both her and Sokka’s roles (caretaker and protector), and was really successful at them? Maybe Katara saw a competent boy and liked him just for that!

ATLA narratively chides Katara for liking Jet. He’s coded as this untrustworthy smarmy bad boy character in opposition to sweet friendly Aang. I mean, it’s not subtle: Katara makes a hat for Jet, and after she discovers he’s cool with killing civilians, Aang’s shown wearing the hat. But maybe Katara liked Jet because he had his shit together, while Aang was trying to ride giant fish despite being the saviour of the world! Maybe!

#avatar #atla #avatar the last airbender #i feel like in general #women are often infantilized as little babies in need of protection from groomers #whenever the slightest age gap is present #but sometimes the reason the girl is attracted to an older guy #is because guys their own age are too immature #i've even seen a whole thread of women talking about dating older guys who they dumped #because they were STILL too immature

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Sometimes I see Membrane/Utonium fanart and I think “Membrane doesn’t deserve Utonium. Utonium would never date someone who treats his kids like that”. But then I think “Maybe Utonium could influence Membrane to be a better parent.” And then other times I think “They should get married so Utonium can divorce him and get custody of Dib and Gaz.”

#Invader Zim #powerpuff girls #ppg #professor membrane #professor utonium #PMAUR