#I chose make tools

[somethingsomethingcomic]

guess what I've been fixating on

#animal crossing #animal crossing new horizons #acnh #tom nook #smth smth #yeah ive just been playing acnh again. sorry #i just unlocked terraforming this morning (as of when im creating the post on monday not when its posted on thursday) #so hopefully by the time this is posted ill have gotten some rly nice street patterns made up #i found some pretty good ones but the way they were set up was like. not exactly what i need? so im trying to like #rip them off ig??? is that bad? idk. im gonna put my own spin on em ig #im just not super good at making convincing like...sidewalks w depth to them and such #anyway hopefully this time around i can really get my island looking as baller as i want #the reason i restarted was bc id fucked my island up so thoroughly that i wasnt even sure what to do w it anymore #or where to start w it #also my plaza was SUPER close to the airport. #so i chose a different layout this time where the plaza is like in the middle right area of it #more room for an entrance and such #i even have made up a Future Map including new landscaping and zones #so ill get to that over the next few days since i have time off work #also! this is the first entry ive made using my new smth smth tools #namely the automatic halftone-ify-er and a custom hand-drawn font #it took a bit less time to make this one since i didnt have to 1. hand write the dialogue and 2. think about the specific halftone colors #im still sticking to a limited palette (specifically 256 web safe colors) just cuz #but yeah. if you have actually read all of this and you have thoughts on the look of this one vs the previous ones lmk 🩵 thanks #also have a good day and drink some water :)

[quietwingsinthesky]

for the ship ask game, have you ever thought about simm!master/eleven? would you like to?

would i ever!!!!!!

this was the basis of one of my posts about little amy so long ago. a hypothetical s5 where the master sticks with the doctor after he regenerates. but like can we talk about how insane that dynamic between him and amelia, the literal eight year old, would be. look at me. one of the defining things of eleven's run is that the first face he saw was amy's. seared onto his hearts!!! now, imagine that happens in a world where the master did everything right to be that person, and it was still amy. the tardis crashed, and the doctor went one way and the master went the other, and by the time the master drags himself soaking wet out of what was the swimming pool and into amelia's garden, the doctor is already having dinner with some random human child.

things simm!master is not above: being a little bitch to amy about this. yes, even when she's eight. (amelia pond with her stories about her magical raggedy doctor!! ...and the trash rat who crawled out of his time machine after him and threatened to eat her. wait okay hold on i know im getting distracted here but aslkjdalkjsd rory who amy makes dress up as the doctor vs mels who insists on dressing up as the master because she craves violence and an excuse to bite people.)

ANYWAY. god. eleven who is this bottomless well of grief and rage. and the master who is so much like him in this incarnation. silly goofy guys who burn too bright, burn up everything and everyone around them. what is simm!master if not a version of eleven untempered by kindness. i wonder what the master would have to say about a version of the doctor who is aware of how scared people are of him and uses it to his advantage. who scares the rest of the universe so much that they try to lock him away and kill him and do anything they can to get rid of him. when they lock the doctor up in the pandorica, does the master give him the final shove into the chair or is he a few feet away, just barely restrained, impotently snapping and snarling to prevent this?

but never looking at it directly, right? neither of them would be able to. not at what's between them, not at what came before. if you don't talk about that time you both saved each other, then maybe you can pretend it didn't happen.

i think the master would make eleven worse, no doubt about it. i think eleven might just make the master a little better, and he'd hate that but that wouldn't stop it from happening. they might find some sort of equilibrium, just this once, a little willing to bend in the aftermath of the events of the end of time. that part of the master that will be missy one day wakes up. the part of the doctor that was once the time lord victorious gets a last glorious breath. they can have that, together.

okay. okay. one last thing. gets ill thinking about eleven who is so physically affectionate being that way with the master. with mr 'im going to kiss my wife i married for political gain like im starving'. with mr 'time lord telepathy does not require physical contact but if we don't touch foreheads right now ill die'. with mr 'fuck u but also im gonna die in your arms, don't leave or let me go before everything falls quiet.' thinks about eleven touching him and hugging him and kissing him and- thinks about the master recoiling from it, hackles raised, or shoving the doctor away when he does. thinks about the doctor not stopping. thinks about the master getting accustomed to his touch, taking it greedily. (thinks about missy kissing the doctor to greet him later.)

yeag <3

[put any ship in my ask box and i’ll give my brutally honest opinion]

#ask #oh for fucks sake i didnt even touch on the doctor saving gallifrey i didnt even- #no no look at me look at me. day of the doctor with simm!master also there tagging along like clara does #because that's his home too. but that's where he was *used*. that's where he was made into a tool to be discarded. *diseased.* #the doctor is thinking about the children. the master is thinking about being one of those children and how much it *hurt*. #he's selfish. of course he is. the doctor is too. that's why he decides he gets to choose whether gallifrey lives or dies. #let the master get angry with him for deciding he chose wrong the first time. #let him get mad at undoing their inheritance as the last of their kind! the doctor fought him so hard to make sure the master couldn't #fix this his way. but the doctor gets to fix it his? #also ten here with simm!master pre-eot. ough. gah. HHWAH. i thought you were dead..... #elated horrified confused to see him. ohhohoho let eleven be a little mean to his old self. let him step between the master and ten. #casually. you know. but also keeping them apart. he's cruel to himself like that. he really is. #anyway. the master arguing for gallifrey to burn. the doctor arguing back for it to be saved. and all the things they won't say that the #argument is *actually* about. and send.

[pesteringchum]

i think a lot about if jade would ever have been able to live a normal life.

had the kids never played sburb, what would’ve happened to jade? does she have citizenship anywhere? does she have a passport? does she have a birth certificate? if she ever got off the island, does she have any proof at all that she exists?

if she doesn’t and can’t get any, would she just stay on her island? would she die there, without ever being near a human other than her grandfather? would she die there, a distant memory of her childhood friends, who’ve long since grown up and joined society and no longer had time for her? would it be as if she’d never existed at all?

if she does get off the island and is able to join human society, would she even like it?

she grew up alone, aside from bec. she’s smart and curious, so she probably would want to go to university so she could do research. would she be able to live in a city packed with people people people and bricks and concrete and air pollution? would she learn that her social battery is a lot shorter than she thought, that the concrete and brick is colder than she thought, that even the air is more foreign to her lungs than she thought it would be? would she feel suffocated?

she grew up with bec constantly by her side, but many places dont allow dogs. would she feel separation anxiety? would she feel more alone than she ever thought possible, amidst more people she ever experienced in all years of her life combined?

would she return to her island? would she die there, lonely again but content but hungry for something she can’t stand? would she be remembered by her peers and professors? or would they, too, with time, forget her? would it be like she’d never left the island at all? would it be as if she’d never existed at all?

#idk if any of this makes sense #this is mostly projection bc i grew up chronically online but. #jade never stood a chance without sburb i think #she never rlly had irl human connection with anyone other than her grandpa #and you can only learn so much from tv and chatting to ppl online #physically being around people can be exhausting—let alone talking AND listening AND interpreting your interlocutor’s body language #does she have the tools to not only perform social existence but to also cope with how tiring it is? #if she chose to stay among society how long would it take her to learn body language and learn what her social limits are? #would she ever learn her limits or would she exist in a cycle of party party party -> burn out -> isolate self -> repeat? #without sburb i think she would have really struggled to Exist in an observable way #blipping in and out of existence; on and off the radar #which doesn’t make for stable relationships #sorry for all my jade angst hc’s she’s just my favourite blorbo to project onto <//3 #jade harley #homestuck #chum pesters

[mistergreatbones]

okay i think enough time has passed that i can joke about it

Jason: Your methods are ineffective. If you don't permanently stop criminals they will just continue to hurt people. Bruce: *finds a permanent way to stop people from being violent and uses it on Jason, a dangerous criminal* Jason:

#does dc think the no kill rule is solely about killing and not tied to the ideal of rehibilitation? #like he could have wallowed away but he chose to protect people #because he believes his city can get better #he believes clayface and harvey and selena and harley can get better #he gave dick and jason direction as robin because he saw their talent and potential #he sees what gotham could be and he fights for it #why even bother keeping arkham around if you're just gonna steal away a person chance to get better #espically a person like jason #someone who grew up in a bad home and on the streets and as robin and withe the League #that man's been fighting his whole life because the only other option was to die #you're not just declawing a cat you're not just stealing a person's antonmy you're stealing the defenses of a person with C-PTSD #not to mention that he's using the tools of his most distrubing villians #ivy and pyg and scarecrow and joker alter your brain and chemistry to make you act in the ways they want #and how is that any different from what you've done? how can you be sanctimonious now? #“oh but its evil did” that's ablest nonsense and i don't give a shit #im not asking for wfa fluff i just want consistancy y'know? #leo says shit #jason todd #batman #gotham war #bones' bitching hours

[rosewheresheshouldntbe]

Rose shouldn't be in Alabama.

Background image source: https://www.southernliving.com/montgomery-alabama-7504866

#I'll eventually get around to all 50 states; don't think we have a canon location as to where Rose lives? correct me if I'm wrong #don't ask why she is glowing; I attempted using photo filters to make it look like the sunset & lighting affected her #started with Alabama first because alphabetical; I'll get around to provinces & stuff too in Europe #chose the god tier sprite because of the sunset; orange color theme 🧡 #she sure is seeing those lights in this one; seer of light type beat I suppose #this is apparently in Montgomery specifically for those who are curious #not all of these will have so much effort put into them especially when I'm without a computer while waiting for it to be repaired #just so I'm not setting that expectation; I might do doodles or snapchat editing for stuff if I can find an image that I can magic tool out #rosewheresheshouldntbe #rose lalonde #hs rose #homestuck #originals

[crown-ov-horns]

The credits ruin the gifset, but I do love this scene, and the portrayal of Michael's body language. He radiates authority as well as elegance. He's a perfect Antichrist.

#ahs #american horror story #ahs apocalypse #michael langdon #wilhelmina venable #cody fern #sarah paulson #i think venable's a switch #she's mostly a dom but she's sub for him #mike no that's not how you flirt #you do not stare at a pretty lady to intimidate her you know this #but the polite battle of wills makes this scene almost funny #cut to the fanfic where he chose her as the mother of new humankind #i'm obsessed with his politician body language #i probably could cut out the credits but i don't know how #and probably don't have the right tools #ahs fandom #horror fandom #michael langdon x wilhelmina venable #ahs gifs #ahs gifset #fanfiction refs #also i love how mallory stares at him it shows her will isn't broken like many others i'd imagine #looking at this gifset after already seeing the whole series you just think “awh my baby grew up” #langdon's the definition of a glowup #tag rant archive

[hellsvestibule]

Apparently Moriarty in Traum took the Norn, the 3 fates of Norse mythology, into himself, so he could weave together the threads of fate, presumably to regain some of the control over his future he lost. This immediately stood out to me, because the other crime butterfly spider clown, Mephistopheles, carries around a pair of scissors which I theorized way back whenever, are actually the shears of Atropos the inflexible, one of the moirai, fates of Greek mythology, specifically the one who cuts the threads of fate and determines your exact moment of death. So if I’m right he long ago did a similar thing as what Moriarty did. For. Reasons? The opposite reasons even. To sever fate.

Pictured: person whose eyes function in a similar way to Atropos, specifically annoyed by said scissors, and focusing on them as the subject of curiosity through the event (calling him scissors as a nickname) although if I’m right he’s absolutely using them the wrong way, which might be why Shiki struggles to pinpoint what bothers her so much about them (when she meets other heroic spirits in this event and does not give their weapons this kind of attention)

On the other hand if he stole them to cut the threads of fate it’s odd that he concocts an entire scenario here for you to beat him up until he turns good, since you’d think he could have just severed the fate of his bad self and killed him with the scissors or that when teaming up with you to do so he’d at least use them the right way to show off how he’s The Strongest (TM CR). So there are some things that feel Off about this theory I admit. However since the shears of Atropos work as an authority which can undermine even Zeus, I can still maybe come up with a few justifications as to why they’d give him this motif.

The boy who hands out explosives in the form of insects is actually a distinct character in the play Faust. He is basically a manifestation of Fausts subconscious desire to escape into a dream world, a reality he can control and manipulate. said character has a more beautiful, youthful form than Faust, so others are naturally drawn to him and trust him. Faust calls this character “son” and loves him quite a bit even though he’s basically a nameless one off character introduced briefly in part 2. Since our Mephy is not a devil, but a homunculus Historical Faust raised, part of the basis for him probably comes from this character, among several others in the play. Of course, characters who represent everything in the story are pretty commonplace in fate, but scissors are not at all relevant to the play, while pretty much every other motif on Mephy I can pinpoint as something particular mentioned on some character or other in Goethes Faust. but in particular this “charioteer boy,” who hands out fake gold which turns into explody bugs, is within his scene, associated with the Greek god of wealth, Plautus, a god who was blinded by Zeus so he could not tell right from wrong, a decision meant to benefit the already fortunate, since Plautus would just as readily bestow his wealth on an already wealthy person as a broke one. Fausts Plautus is, of course, just a conman version of himself. But he really seems to believe in this kid and want him to succeed.We see in fgo Mephys voice lines imply he struggles to tell good from bad in a way the devil in the play is not at all preoccupied with understanding, but a false construct based on Plautus might be, as Plautus is not actually a bad person, and in mythology there are tales written meant to rectify what Zeus did to him.

At the very least, the sheers of Atropos renders decisions made by the fates immutable even to Zeus, so the input of any other authority in the Greek pantheon regarding who the fates choose to kill is basically irrelevant, they have the final say. However even if that’s the case, either he can’t use them properly as a death tool, is purposefully destroying them by using their ”determines time of death” shtick to instead make his dinky little time bombs, or he’s saving the reveal they cause instant death for something special although it’s hard to rationalize he’d be able to keep it secret this long if that’s the case, since he can’t shut up about literally anything else. I’d say it doesn’t have anything to do with the Greek pantheon specifically and more to do with a desperate bid for agency, the same way Moriarty uses the norn. It’s possible he just doesn’t know what they are, or forgot what he’s even doing with them. Or it’s possible I’m just entirely wrong and they are, as his artist says, just a random decision! But considering how well researched the rest of the motifs on him seem, I still have doubts it’s irrelevant, I especially had to bring it back when Moriarty who assumed all this adjacent clown symbolism to Mephy, also made the choice to absorb the Norn. Since if I’m right Mephy here has the specific tool which could undermine what Moriarty has done. One spider clown to weave fate and another to sever it

#fgo Mephistopheles #throwing out a speculation that’s been lingering on my mind #sorry it’s so long ​I admit it I like buggy the clown too much #if you want citations for any of this btw I have it it’ll just make the post even longer so I left it out #also I know I’m being presumptuous on how Atropos works in fate #but cutting the threads that determine someone’s lifeline easily translates as an insta death skill similar to shikis #since if you hold the scissors and decide that time is right now it’s basically the ultimate death tool #if Moriarty can just say he has the norn in order to steer his ideal trajectory for the future #I don’t see why Mephy can’t say the same #you would probably need all 3 to actually steer fate but in order to inflict death probably just the sheers #again I couldn’t even tell you what his intent is here but his plotline mirrors Moriarty’s #the fact that they gave Moriarty a plot paraleling what I thought was sort of a crack-y theory feels quite convenient #butterfly effect sorta thing… #also I am sorry I spelled shears sheers like 50 times in the original post my brain chose the wrong word there lmao

[maegalkarven]

Like, no one argues with the fact that pre memory loss Durge is evil.

We are simply interested WHY they're evil.

And how much work seemed to go into making them that way.

#bg3 spoilers #dark urge #if you are born to be the murder incarnate the destroyer of the world #and raised that way #praised for that and steered away from any other path #if you are the blood of the good of murder #how much who you are is your responsibility and how much it's the result of you being made/molded a certain way? #the reason i never chose to accept Bhaal's gifts not bc “evil choice” #but because Durge once again loses their autonomity #they're back into the fold #father's perfect little weapon #bhaal's tool bhaal's SLAVE #do you think bhaal needed a child made only out of his flesh to be able to fully control them? #bc i think he did #'bhaal doesn't need us to think he needs us to kill' oh durge baby you said it yourself #bhaal doesn't need or want a child. he wants a vessel of his will. a tool to execute his plans #durge's opinion never mattered them bring their own person was never permitted #only the blade what deals bhaal's will #only that and not a person #the personhood is something what has been denied to durge from the very start even if sceleritas makes a good job at pretending otherwise #'the world is your playground' he says bc he needs durge obedient. and if durge think he has a choice #well let them

[thethingything]

so CBT never worked for us in therapy. basically every instance of it was therapists trying to get us to stop being anxious about very real problems that were very likely to happen. like, situations that were not only likely, but would be very dangerous if they did happen. sometimes even things that had already happened and were likely to happen again.

meanwhile we have an app on our phone that guides you through various CBT exercises and it turns out when we use that for the kind of shit where we already know our brain is being irrational and we just want to get our thoughts together and work through the issue by writing it out, it works really fucking well and oh look suddenly we've been doing CBT for an hour and processed the root cause of several key emotional issues we've been having for years.

funny how that works. it's almost like we can actually figure out for ourselves when something is irrational and when it's an actual real problem that could put us in danger and shouldn't be dismissed. who'd have fucking thought it

#personal #thoughts #Lucy post #therapy #this is fine to reblog if it resonates with you. if anyone starts being a shithead in the notes I'm blocking on sight though #do not pull a ''see! CBT can be helpful if it's done right! if it harmed you then your therapist was just doing it wrong'' in my comments #the therapists that harmed us were using the exact same techniques but just as a blanket solution for every single problem #and yeah you can argue that's ''doing it wrong'' and I couldn't really say you're wrong about that #but when someone's saying ''hey the way this technique is usually used has done a lot of harm to me'' #it's kind of shitty to be like ''well that's not real CBT though. real CBT isn't harmful'' #when it's the same techniques being used in the way they're very often used because the therapists are taught to use them that way #anyway this has been a random rant about CBT because I'm pissed that a tool that does help us when used for a very specific set of issues #has been used so badly in the past that we still end up being reluctant to use it for the things it actually helps with #because we still associate the fucking thinking traps and shit with being gaslit and told we were being irrational #for thinking very real very dangerous situations were in fact real and dangerous to us #having to admit that CBT helped with something feels like when you finally take the advice about going outside and hydrating more #and eating better and gratitude journaling and realise you do actually feel better and have to admit the advice does help #after years of feeling like you're being dismissed because people keep telling you to do those things when you talk about being depressed #like okay yeah it did actually work. when I chose to do it. when I felt ready to #when I wasn't being forced into it by people expecting it to fix every single issue I have despite it only helping in very specific ways #anyway I wonder how much quicker we'd have learn healthy coping mechanisms if people hadn't treated various shit like cure-alls #and had said ''hey this will help with this specific thing in this way which will make these other things more manageable'' instead

[gutsfics]

tbh i think that the "is ai generated content art" argument is roughly the same as "is Duchamp's Fountain art". i think that the argument of if its art is what makes it art, because it is invoking some kind of feeling. starting a conversation. if that makes sense?

that being said, absolutely there is a time and a place for it (ie not replacing the work of paid artists). and it should only be trained on artsts who have consented to it.

i dont want to read fiction made by ai bc if you didn't take the time to write something, why should i take the time to read it? and for non fiction, it'll be riddled with incorrect facts because an algorithm "decided" that this word is the most likely to go next in the sentence based on what it's database says, even if its factually incorrect.

one of my favorite pieces of art is an ai image that was sent to a company that makes paint-by-numbers, and then filled out by a person. the artist, tumblr user rigatonidanza, asks "is this art? at what point does it become art? can it never be art because its ai, or because its paint by numbers? is it art because it elicits a response from the viewer?"

the point of art is to make you think, and to make you feel. does it stop being art if its not made by human hands, the way algorithmically generated images are? is it not art if its something mass produced, made for intentions other than what the artist uses it for, like Fountain? even if looking at it makes you feel something? anything? even if that "something" is a negative emotion?

all that said. if you use generative algorithms as an excuse to not pay real artists, you are a human tar pit. may you always immedeatly stub your toe after it stops hurting from the last time you stubbed it.

#yes i am fully aware of exactly how pretentious this sounds #i think generative algorithms are a tool. one thats being severly missused every day. but still a tool #also ngl i do like the ai->paint by numbers bc the image tumblr user rigatonidanza chose for it is kinda funny as hell #but thats not the point here. maybe it is though bc thats Another Emotion #ALSO. THIS IS BY NO MEANS ME SAYING I SUPPORT GENORATIVE ALGORITHMS AS A CONCEPT. #my last boss used algorithms to make art even though *he had a human artist on his payroll* & i wanted to rip his face off like a chimpanze #he also encouraged me to steal 3d assets for the game he wanted me to help him make. genuinely all around kinda a scumbag lol #@ any and all techbros who may see this: i hate you i hate you i hate you ihate you i hate you #also: images generated from algorithms being art does Not mean that i like it. theres very few ai images i actually like

[curiosity-killed]

Not to be like a crotchety old grandpa waving my cane at middle school hooligans but I do wish (especially) young, very online queer folks would take a sec to learn a little more about like political movements and social change

#like yes rainbow capitalism is superficial and frustrating and oftentimes hypocritical #but throwing a tantrum about it doesn’t tell those companies to do more meaningful work #it tells them we’re not a market and therefore they should for profit’s sake target other audiences #which like yeah IS shitty and not how social change should work #but we do live in a capitalist society atm #and until The Glorious Revolution Directly Leading Us to Utopia shows up #we work with the tools we have #similarly politics #like listening to the decision on the Louisiana bill #the legal arguments used to table it make me bristle a little #I don’t think children’s identities should come down to parents’ choice #(this is a simplification) #BUT by using the arguments they chose #those legislators are speaking to a population that can be convinced to care abt this shit #and doing it in a way that for instance I would struggle to #and that’s good!! #because it is actually better to have momentum gaining towards a goal #than it is to get locked up in infighting and pushing away potential support #people run races for a lot of different reasons #but the fact that everyone is aiming for the same goal #is what makes it a race rather than chaos #anyway I am off my soapbox this is just. a persistent frustration #personal

[gloriousmonsters]

hi hello just saw everything everywhere all at once and i am experiencing the temporary euphoria of remembering that in a fragmented and chaotic universe we must search for wonder make our own meaning and most importantly be kind

#anyway i'm also exhausted and i'm going to bed #i had to stop my therapist from saying my mom had 'narcissistic tendencies' when i was describing some shit she did in the past today #and be like 'um actually i have '''narcissistic tendencies''' so could we please Not' #obviously she was not initially buying it when she asked 'why did you think that' but I did outline the things that had resonated with me #why i self dxed and how it was a hugely important tool for making sense of the way my brain worked #and therefore figuring out how to effectively try and improve #and touched on the 'it sucks that people are forming clubs to call everyone they don't like a narcissist' and #'if you say someone with a PD doesn't do (x) good behavior you're basically saying a PD is a life sentence and not just information #about how your mind/personality tends to work' greatest hits #and she did seem to agree with a lot of what I said #and seemed to understand when I said I just straight up didn't want to talk about my parents being mentally ill #because what mattered to me was how they chose to act #and not what may or may not be a contributing factor #and ultimately she said she appreciated that I'd spoken up and we could look into dx stuff for npd if I wanted #(which I don't know if I do want! but I feel like it's a positive-ish thing for her to bring up) #so overall it was scary and exhausting but I was pretty happy with how I handled it #and it had me already thinking a lot of Big Stuff about self-improvement and sense of self #and learning to find hope and not just stew in misery or stagnate in 'this is the way things are' #and then the movie hit and it was just the perfect movie to watch today #genuinely a masterpiece god tier acting and effects never a dull moment #and listen i just need everyone to try and be kind to yourself and others ok we need it #believe that you can be okay and you are okay and spend a little time with something or someone you love

[seethinglikeme]

seeing ppl say that dabi’s an emotionless sociopath just bc he says he is is actually annoying af to me 😭 like r u rlly gonna say the guy who thought so hard abt the families of the ppl he’s killed he went crazy, went berserk when twice died, and literally burned himself to death BC he was so emotional that his father didn’t come to see his quirk’s development is unemotional just bc he says he is? cmon babes be for fucking real 😭

#and bc ik there r counterarguments to the examples i listed: #1) he said that out loud to himself while wiping blood away from his eye scar which is used to symbolise his tears since he cant cry #so no it’s not him lying or faking it or acting. it’s dabi thinking out loud and expressing his feelings #in a scene btw that wasn’t necessary to that arc’s plot or anything - horikoshi decided to put it in for a different reason then #(perhaps to show the audience that just bc dabi says he’s emotionless doesn’t actually mean he is. but what do i know) #2) yeah he said he’s upset abt twice’s death bc it affects him negatively. but that doesn’t make sense #why high-five him then? that wasn’t necessary - u can argue it boosts twice’s morale but to do what? escape from hawks & help the plf? #twice has plenty of motivation to do that - he already was! so why else? throwing a dog a bone? dabi’s not the type to do that and even if #he was that implies some sort of pity or fondness which also disproves the emotionless thing #not only that but his reaction when twice died was not a ‘fuck i just lost a useful tool for my plan’ #that was someone in the anger stage of grief and going mad w it #also we legit saw dabi’s touya reveal & it was obv not a plan he’d adjusted or created in the time btwn twice’s death and that moment #same 4 the video #and i mean we see dabi fight endeavor & shouto and he does all that alone - none of the plf help #if he doesn’t let the rest of the league help him then why woild twice have been the exception? and actually why would the guy who #told deku to stay out of the todoroki family’s business and didnt tell the league his identity til he revealed it to everyone want someone #else’s help?? #it doesn’t make sense - more likely that dabi was mourning a friend/ally and emotional enough and he came up w a shitty excuse bc of it #3) i mean it’s basically canon that he lost control of his flames BC he was so emotional #and there r plenty more examples i just chose those 3 bc they’re bigger ones #but burning down toga’s family home burning down the orphanage returning to the todoroki family home in the first place etc #trying to inflict as painful a death as he could on hawks etc #all displays of emotion and shit #and tbh i could prbly argue that his constant reiteration that he’s a sociopath who doesn’t feel anything is all bluster and bullshit to #make himself be thought of as worse than he is bc itd hurt enji’s rep even more #i have more to say but u get the picture #if i see one more piece of dabi hate calling him emotionless and sociopathic im going to start biting #todoroki touya #dabi #me

[unproduciblesmackdown]

fr if taylor and philip don't kiss then what's this all been about. (the entire series of billions) what is it all for

#and it's so damn plausible.... #billions Does go ''this character's doing better :)'' by having them dating someone which = they kissed (& possibly also then fucked) #and taylor has over & over chosen other priorities over what's good just for Business or Power. why wouldn't they now #starting tmc was for themself & was an obviously super risky business move Not guaranteed more lucrative than staying w/axe #but they had to do it b/c they personally couldn't bear to keep operating that way as axe's begrudgingly more compensated tool #to use whenever however he wanted....end of s4 obviously made the pivot away from not only profits but hypothetical Personal Revenge.... #end of s5 again they gotta Not be axe's tool. arguably dumping lauren was a redirect of what they could've done re their personal #relationship with wendy; the more longstanding one there & the one most poised to fuck more shit up for them even now.... #s6 they're still just awaiting their chance to break out; they've handed themself the memo of ''don't date someone based on being trapped i #the inescapable escape room together b/c you both decide not to pursue more of a life outside the escape room than that'' #(which; like wendy not going to superhell being like ''lol. ok Sure she prudently wouldn't'': rian shouldn't be dying to date taylor b/c #neither of them have ever been shown enjoying each other's company very much or for more than 5 seconds; but if for some reason that's not #enough and if she's fired off zero thoughts abt why it's a shit idea to slap the zillionaire politician boss man twice your age's bald head #then i don't believe she'd sagely & so much respect warrantingly turn taylor down. but it's pretty clear that rian's motivations are Only #gonna ever be whatever the [other character's plotlines] in any given scene would be conveniently helped along by. amazing) #meanwhile philip has chosen to be here but he's very much Not just like ''ok guess i'll go in the escape room'' with it #doesn't work for taylor or vice versa; Chose to work With taylor And vice versa #they Do both choose to interact and Do both find it enriching; already unlike taylor interacting with rian #& already p much outdoing the development of taylaur or the mistake that was [not just banging oscar once if you're gonna bother at all] #(or at least making it a ''we'll hook up if you're on my coast'' maximizing Convenience cwb situation) (colleagues) #it's so Enriched overall already like. this has to be Important #and we'll take ''it is important'' and please In A Good Way #and billions is perfectly liable to make it a matter of kissing into dating into your personal stonks being up #winston billions #taylip #just looking at those images like....c'mon

[imogenkol]

Master and Apprentice Lightsabers

Jedi Master Rejna Shúl

— Components —

blade: Blue emitter: Diligence switch: Persistence grip: Temperance pommel: Persistence

— Materials —

primary: Silver Aloy secondary: Stainless Durasteel accent: Jedi White Paint grip: Gorraslug Leather

Jedi Padawan Imogen Kol

— Components —

blade: Green emitter: Temperance switch: Serenity grip: Diligence pommel: Justice

— Materials —

primary: Two-Tone Brass secondary: Stainless Durasteel accent: Polished Iron grip: Gorraslug Leather

#oc insp: imogen kol #oc insp: rejna shúl #back on my lightsaber bullshit again #but the survivor customization is too damn good #as soon as I settled on Imogen's primary hilt I knew I eventually had to design her padawan one and also Rejna's #Imogen's design is still a little elegant but I wanted it to be more reserved and almost simple #like when she constructed it she didn't try to make it unique or put much of her personality into it #in a lot of ways she wasn't happy with her lightsaber. but it was functional. got her through the war. she killed Rejna w it. #but that's all it was good for #the lightsaber she has now is very much a weapon she's attached to and works WITH instead of just uses as a tool. #Rejna's reflects her perfectly and while I mostly pick components based on appearance #Diligence/Persistence/Temperance.... are exactly the three words I'd chose to describe her

[sunspill]

Ok just to be very clear the long lived mayfly StargateAtl clexa thing is INCOMPLETE in that it is not fully in prose, if that makes sense. Ch2 onwards has scenes or snapshots written and then also has exposition dumps in italics to explain what was planned for the story so the scenes and snapshots make more sense.

I tried to finagle the chapters so it was a decent mix of both, but thats what it is. I completely understand if that's not someone's thing and they would prefer to skip it, which is why I tried to explain it in the chapter notes of chapter2. Its not in the notes for chapter1, because ch1 does not have any of the non-fic exposition notes.

Its not my job or within my power to make sure readers look at the chapter notes. I added the incomplete tag so people coming in to ch1 will know going in. And I've already gotten some really lovely comments so I thank everyone who gave it a chance even tho its weird.

Psa over!!

#i was a bit rude to a commenter #but like idk if im old or wrong but #imo sometimes you read a fic and then theres a choice the author makes or whatever that you dont like and you smash the back button #and then keep it to yourself #like i have never once thought i should tell the author its their problem i wasted my time by chosing minute to minute to continue reading #even if im annoyed which could be just me i suppose #if you care that much about reading completed fics then use the ao3 filter tool? #i could just be being a bitch tho