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jupitermelichios · 22 hours
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To clarify, @am-i-the-asshole-official is speculating that the poster might be being disingenuous about who in the situation they are (e.g. post is written from the perspective of person a, but would make more sense if they're person b pretending to be a) counted as believing the story? Because I can see arguments in both directions - it is engaging with that post rather than dismissing it out of hand, but it's also disbelieving what people are saying, you know?
"add to rules" anon here, i just meant throw it in the faq or maybe pinned. as long as it's written down somewhere it becomes entirely their fault if they decide to not read that and get themselves banned
Y'know what, that sounds reasonable enough, added it to the faq. If people don't read it after I've said to this many times, on their own head be it
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jupitermelichios · 6 days
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This is such an interesting one, because the question isn't actually about Corvo.
Would Corvo investigate? 100% yes. Would he solve it by himself? In no possible world I love the guy but he couldn't solve the crown killer murders and that was way less weird and esoteric than the Kira murders, although he does get some points for the fact that regardless of which universe this happened in he'd probably known Light's dad. Does he die? Also yes, he's a very public figure and also pretty shit at secret identities.
However
He's also the Outsider's favourite toy, and the Outsider is pretty close to omniscient. So the real question becomes:
Would the God of Void care enough to intervene? Is there a way in which Light could piss of Whale Satan enough that he decides he wants this kid dead more than he wants to watch the chaos he sows?
And the answer is yes because he'd fucking hate Ryuk.
Therefore, Corvo can solve the murders not through his own skill but through being the only person who picks up the Outsider's calls
Also it would be very funny to see Kira's face when he discovers that Corvo can summon swarms of starving rats from nowhere, to be honestly I think you should put him on the squad just for that
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jupitermelichios · 7 days
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there's a lot of reasons everyone should read this comic, because it's so good and so heartfelt and so much fun
but i think the most compelling to tumblr is probably that this is the comic which made it canon that a black woman is captain america in every possible future of the marvel universe. no matter what happens, danielle cage always gets the title, and she's always awesome, and her slogan is always 'i am the shield' because she's fucking bulletproof
this is a comic that looks directly at its audience and says 'the symbol of america is and always will be a black woman who uses her strength to make the world a better place and there's nothing anyone can do to change that', during the era when steve rogers had been retconned to be a member of hydra, and it still manages to be fun and lighthearted and have squirrel girl as one of the main characters.
read this book.
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jupitermelichios · 13 days
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Salty Ask List
What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?*
Are there any popular fandom OTPs you only BroTP?*
Have you ever unfollowed someone over a fandom opinion?
Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP?*
Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?*
Has fandom ever made you enjoy a pairing you previously hated?*
Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?*
Have you received anon hate? What about?*
Most disliked character(s)? Why?
Most disliked arc? Why?
Is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?
Is there an unpopular arc that you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?
Unpopular opinion about XXX character?
Unpopular opinion about your fandom?
Unpopular opinion about the manga/show?
If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?
Instead of XYZ happening, I would have made ABC happen…
Does not shipping something ‘popular’ mean you’re in denial and/or biased?
What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom?
What is the purest ship in the fandom?
What are your thoughts on crack ships?
Popular character you hate?
Unpopular character you love?
Would you recommend XXX to a friend? Why or why not?
How would you end XXX/Would you change the ending of XXX?
Most shippable character?
Least shippable character?
*several of these questions are taken from a list that was not rebloggable
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jupitermelichios · 17 days
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Concept for a Hannibal fic that I have neither the time nor the inclination to write:
Hannibal realises Will suspects him of being the Chesapeake Ripper, and may in fact only be spending time with him because he suspects him. The twist is, in this version Hannibal is not the Ripper, he’s just a weird but harmless dude, but he really really wants Will to keep coming around so he just… pretends. 
And he’s going to stop, he is, any day now he’ll say something, except then Will actually takes his suspicions to the FBI, and it’s all getting really out of hand, and next thing he knows Hannibal is in a psych ward, and he’s read Jon Ronson okay, he knows that saying you’re not crazy does nothing to prove you’re sane. But Will keeps visiting him, and honestly it seems like he’s pretty into the whole serial killer thing, and Hannibal’s definitely clever enough, and he’s butchered his own meat so it’s not like he’s squeamish, and most of the guards are assholes, and he’s like 97% sure Will would be into it if he did start killing people so maybe…
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jupitermelichios · 19 days
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Ramadan Kareem to anyone who will be celebrating!
May the month ahead bring you peace and happiness 💚
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jupitermelichios · 20 days
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Official Protective Post
This is the post of warding and defence. If you see this post you are protected from the consequences of any and all "Reblog or else" you may see or have seen for twenty four hours before or afterward. Not that there would be any consequences, because those posts are bilge, but that kind of stuff can set up camp in your head and stab you with its tiny spears just when you least expect it. The post contains no .gifs because I am a rapidly aging luddite who doesn't know how they work. Please feel free to add your own.
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jupitermelichios · 21 days
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If you ever want a case study on why you should always google your made up words before using them, to make sure they don't already exist in a language you don't speak
look no further than the fact that the terrifying all-powerful, definitely male, demon lord that Dante fights in the DMC anime
is called Abigale.
resulting in amazing lines like, "Finally, I shall possess the powers of Abigail!" and "It's all over. Abigail is here!", which are great, but definitely don't have the vibe the writers intended when they designed the character.
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jupitermelichios · 23 days
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The em dash. She can replace a comma. She can replace a semi colon. She can replace parentheses. She even - if one is possessed by the sudden need to be mistaken for the love child of Cicero and Henry James - can replace a period. No one is doing it like her.
bonus. tell me why
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jupitermelichios · 1 month
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In response to this post from @couldtheycatchkira which asks a very good and important question, but does not specify what timeline and/or dimension we're dealing with:
Which versions of Betty and Jughead would be most likely to catch Kira from Death Note and survive?
For clarification, Kira can kill you pretty much instantly if he knows your name and face. Catching Kira requires you to accept that the supernatural exists, and to be able to intuit the rules by which it opperates, as well as needing exceptional detective skills (or supernatural abilities that let you learn things you wouldn't otherwise have known) since he's not a public figure.
Also yes I've split the original timeline up by season, it's just more fun that way. And for the purposes of this poll, we are assuming the Riverdale Time Hole (TM) allows information to flow normally in and out of Riverdale, and all of them except season 7 have access to modern technology if required.
No one on the original poll can make up their minds whether dying and then coming back to life, or dying and being replaced by a multiversal double, or dying and then having your death undone by the archangel raphael/satan/tabith tate/cheryl/immortal jughead from the bunker still counts as dying, so I leave it up to your discretion.
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jupitermelichios · 1 month
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they could catch kira, that's not in question. they both spend most of their lives solving absolutely insane mysteries, usually involving serial killers. it would take betty longer to get on board with the supernatural element, but jug would jump to that basically immediately, long before its actually reasonable.
also this ask doesn't specify a timeline, but if it's post rivervale/pre commet, jug can read minds and betty can magically detect evil, which would be extremely useful in solving the case.
(also also if this involved kira existing in the riverdale universe rather than the other way around, then he would be related to betty, all serial killers in the riverdale universe are related to betty)
the sticky point is the surviving. they're not public figurs in most timelines, but betty doesn't have any kind of alias and 'jughead' barely counts as one, so if kira knew they were investigating him, they'd die for sure. and they are both very bad at not telling suspects they're investigating them.
assuming we're not taking home genre into account, if they investigate before the Rivervale dimensional incursion, they die. If they investigate afterwards, at least one of them still dies (probably Jughead, he's a semi-famous author and also Cheryl doesn't like him enough to put any kind of magical protection on him, which she would on Betty), but Jug's dating a literal actual angel, and betty's cousin has the phoenix force and is friends with necromancers, so they probably just get brought back from the dead. Does that count as surviving?
(If they investigate during the final season 1950s timeline, we have to take genre conventions into account because reality is being dictated by angelic magic, and light would also get archie 1950s-ed when he entered the timeline, which would remove his powers, because magic ceased to exist after the commet hit riverdale)
(also I think the actual answer is that kira wouldn't know they were investigating him unless he went to riverdale because of time-hole, but I respect that many people prefer not to think about the time-hole)
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jupitermelichios · 1 month
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sub eddie recs pls pls??
tumblr, ao3, art, anything - im doing research :)
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jupitermelichios · 1 month
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If my fellow Brits were hoping this was just the USA, I've just had an email from the NHS to say, essentially, 'we know you're having cancer treatment rn, well there's measles fucking everywhere'
Helpfully the only advice they give for avoiding it is 'get vaccinated' immediately followed by 'but if you're being treated for cancer you can't'!
Seriously though, if you're in the UK and reading this, check you had the full MMR vaccine as a kid, and you didn't, contact your GP. It's free for adults under the NHS.
The measles outbreaks are getting so insanely frustrating and outrageous. It’s not just the US now. But the worst part is seeing health authorities and articles starting to adopt Covid language to describe measles. Of course it’s a logical step, but it’s just unbelievable to see something like measles talked about like it’s a normal winter illness, or to pretend that it isn’t airborne. I guess they can’t recommend airborne disease control measures for measles if they’re pretending they don’t exist for Covid. But like. What the hell.
If it’s been decades since your MMR vaccines, consider getting a titer test done to see if you still have adequate antibodies, especially if you spend time around young children. You can get a booster if your immunity has waned.
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jupitermelichios · 1 month
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Summary: Joyce didn't set out to adopt three kids, or not-marry Jim Hopper. It just sort of happened.
Author: @jupitermelichios
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jupitermelichios · 2 months
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grizzled dead-inside hired assassin but he never falls for the femme fatale he only falls for the Completely Awkward Guy At The Computer and it's really frustrating for him
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jupitermelichios · 2 months
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there is a shakespeare authorship debate in the same way there is a debate about whether the earth is round
in that a handful of conspiracy theorists convinced themselves of nonsense because it suits their political or financial ends, and then loudly claimed that actually this is a debate and not a provable fact, and it's been a debate for centuries and wasn't made up 50 years ago, so you definitely have to take them seriously.
that's not a debate, that's just conspiracy theorists doing what they always do.
half the candidates that have been proposed by anti-stratfordian conspiracy theorists died decades before shakespeare stopped writing! the most widely believed version hinges on elizabeth I having an incestuous bastard son with her own bastard son, despite the fact that we know for certain she was never pregnant.
i understand that the political angle isn't obvious to americans, because it's very much tied up in the british class system, but most people aren't aware of the political motivations behind flat earther movements, and they still know it's bullshit. but for some reason this nonsense gets a free pass in a way other conspiracy theories don't.
Hello. What are your thoughts on the Shakespeare authorship controversy? You seem like a Stratfordian (or maybe that's wishful thinking)
I think that extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof, and that the idea that Shakespeare had to be an aristocrat rather than a working playwright is founded in snobbery rather than in any kind of realistic estimate of the writing skills of the British artistocracy.
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jupitermelichios · 2 months
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This is sending me. This is THE event for the BBC
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