#It's 2 am again does it show

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

more of the dapper lad! i Cannot get him out of my brain

#i sit down to draw dragons and/or ocs and OOPS my hand slipped its wally #hes so. bites him bites him bites him #but affectionately <3 #but also with affectionate intent to maim <3 #every time i feel like my feelings about him are starting to level out to a normal baseline.... #....i feel a heart squeeze and im back to insanity #welcome home #scribble garnish #wally darling #welcome home wally #welcome home puppet show #also i am once again imaging that he is modeling for sally #this is alternatively titled 'consistency? dont know her' #his hair confuses me so much #no matter how many times i look at references or draw him it still baffles me #which way does it curl? how does it floof? fuck if i know! #yknow before i drew this i set out with the intent to put Other neighbors in schmancy outfits #and then i saw that colorblock shirt. and it all went downhill #its 2 am now. #i spent a solid hour making a fancy background but i scrapped it bc it was Too Much

[nebulouscoffee]

"My name is Nyota. I'm the communications officer, I- I was born in Kenya- I used to have a cat, named Kamili. My first memory is watching my dad play the piano. I'm real."

Okay but I was wholly unprepared for how much it would mean to me to see more of Uhura's African identity actually being canonised by this show. The "I'm real" especially got to me; just a throwaway line but it really made me think of the Ben Sisko/Benny Russell parallels! Nyota, born in the 23rd century, is exactly the sort of person Benny Russell dreamed could exist in the future. She is real! She exists!

#celia gooding uhura u are everything 2 me #although. ten whole series of ''sci-fi utopia'' and we are still yet to actually SEE Africa or Asia properly lmao #literally this woman was having a traumatic flashback she was like OMG I'M AT THE SHUTTLECRASH AGAIN #meanwhile I was like OMG SHE'S IN KENYA AGAIN!! #STAR TREK SHOW ME 23th CENTURY AFRICA PLS #star trek: you can have a peek of skyscraper in the corner #me: omg a peek of skyscraper in the corner #(lol ok but in all seriousness. how the global south fits into a quote unquote ''developed'' TECH utopia is an important question!! #you could sidestep it in the 90s ig but now it feels like they're just being cowards about it lol) #all the same I am glad to have characters like her actually acknowledge where they come from in so many words #it does mean something #snw

[creative-hanyou-girl]

PJO SPOILERS!!!!!!

I'm only making one post tonight because I gotta be up in a few hours but WOW!!!!! What a finale episode!!!!! It was everything I loved from the book and more. Also that scene with Percy and Poseidon!? I actually got teared up. You could just SEE the pain and grief in Poseidon's eyes over the fact that he couldn't be with Percy and Sally and it was so heartbreaking!!!

Also ADORE that Poseidon saved Percy from Zeus. Not only from the bolt, but by surrendering. We all know how prideful the gods are, especially Big 3 gods, so the fact that Poseidon put Percy FIRST over his pride makes my heart melt. I always believed that as far as the Greek gods go in PJO, Poseidon was one of the better and more genuinely caring parents, and the show is just proving me right 1000%. Its also a good moment because it demonstrates to Percy that the gods aren't all black and white; they're not all terrible parents by choice. In my opinion, this moment gives Percy's motivation on fighting FOR the gods more weight and grounding. Because he sees that his dad DOES care about him. We all say Percy could've EASILY turned out like Luke, but because Percy sees that his dad does care about him, and that some gods do care about their kids, it allows him to see that not all the gods are completely terrible for the sake of being terrible. I still love his motivation in the books where he fights for the sake of his friends, but I like that the show is letting Percy see too that the gods, like humans, are multiple layered and that they have their reasons. This is not me trying to justify all the gods' actions btw, but I do think that there are SOME gods at least that aren't completely terrible for no reason like Zeus and Ares in PJO, and Poseidon protecting Percy is a great show of that and adds to Percy's decision to defend the gods instead of fighting against them, even though he and Luke are a lot alike with similar feelings of abandonment and resentment.

Also, I wonder how the TV only viewers are doing right now after Luke's betrayal. From what I heard, TV viewers loved Luke, so I can only imagine how WRECKED they must be feeling. I feel devastated, and I saw it coming as a book reader. That's how great Luke's actor was, and how great the show portrayed Luke as a older brother figure to Percy.

Overall, AMAZING final. I'll try to express more thoughts tomorrow.

#percy jackson #poseidon #zeus #I was so blown away guys that finale was EPIC!!!! #as a book reader I felt like got everything I wanted but then was pleasantly surprised by things they added #I am so grateful that we finally got PJO adaptation we deserve. #is it perfect? no #does it have flaws? yes #could it have done some things better? absolutely #but does it stay true to the heart and core of the characters and the story as a whole? HECK YEAH IT DOES!!!! #and again #there's always the book canon and musical canon. but now we've got a wonderful TV canon now too! #and isn't that kind of amazing when you think about it? #season 2 renewal when!? #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson tv show #percy jackson series #percy jackson spoilers #luke castellan

[kingstealer]

aabria going, "as aimee who maybe wants to have a friend sit by you soon" is going to haunt me for the next two weeks. i can already tell.

#critical role #critical role campaign 3 #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers #what does that MEAN. who else do they have sitting in the back room pretending they don't exist. who now has to come back later #WHAT IF ITS ZERXUS #(guy who only knows one fictional character voice) #my points to back this up are: 1. apparently we're doing a betrayer god thing so probably would be a betrayer god pc showing up #2. he's the only other champion of a betrayer god pc we know. there could ofc be a new one but i'm insane like that #would it probably actually be a spider queen person? oh yeah probably. but WHAT IF #of all the episodes for me to pick up cr again (god i hope not i need to have a sleep schedule) after having watched calamity recently #i was so ready to go to bed like an hour later than usual and then aabria said 'you maybe want someone with you on your side of the table?' #and i live watching this yt stream now. or rather. in 2 weeks #thanks for coming to my ted talk. i am the conspiracy board meme

[nekomim1]

Is this anything?

#sorry i started thinking about religion again and it led me to. this. #Yes I am all three #now to relate this back to orv #orv #kim dokja #omniscient reader's viewpoint #kdj #kim dokja has 2 out of 3 of these #and by god does it show

[papabirdurskeks]

Sort of a part two to my last post here

Maybe someday I’ll explain this later. Maybe

#destiny #destiny 2 #the witness #i am tagging this with the witness because in a way this does have to do with them #headcanon territory #oc #sketches #again no censor cause nothing is showing #but yeah here to have fun with speculation and thoughts

[mechawolfie]

it is genuinely astounding to me how this show just keeps throwing twists at me & it just doesn't get old. like. i keep thinking "i feel like this is going somewhere that other stories have done & I'm not looking forward to it" but it just. it's good. the show is good. man.

#smudgy.txt #pantheon #pantheon season 2 #pantheon show #i mean even when it does go somewhere i don't like it still does it in a way i cant hate LMAO #its so weird. like i shouldnt be surprised at a series having consistently good writing but. wow !! #anyway. that was ep 7. its WILD how much they can fit into 40 mins. i love it #i also love that it just feels like a Good Drama. like a live action show but its animated!! which makes it #a million times cooler!! #im liking the more recent animated adult shows that like. take themselves seriously #im not sure how to describe it... its like. in the us at least cartoons r seen by The Suits as Just For Kids yknow #& it feels like studios are finally being able to get away from that mindset #just. it's definitely an adult show but it's not going out of its way to prove that again and again #doss that make any sense #anyway. its 2 am. whoops !!

[chiropteracupola]

a little pain now, to save a great deal more pain later

[flintlock fortress is a collaboration with @dxppercxdxver]

#em draws stuff #flintlock fortress #team fortress 2 #blood #today on the em cupola show: wild self-indulgence. but hey I feel Bad so I'll draw what I Like. and today that's medical procedures. #someone leaned over my shoulder while I was drawing this and asked 'is that bloodletting' and they were Almost Right so I'm endlessly proud #in fact it is smallpox inoculation! #sorry to everyone who I have bothered with my Smallpox Talk in recent memory but It Will Happen Again. #the game style itself is kind of rockwell and leyendecker-y to me so I wanted to do something with a similar look to their work #had a lot of goals for this piece and I think I really did achieve all of them quite nicely #could I keep these guys recognizable without showing their full faces? yes I think so! #could I make 'getting a mild case of smallpox with the lads' seem a bit romantic even? yes to that too. #also. scout tattoos make an appearance. (do not go looking for them in any other art of him on account of I Forgor) #and a new look for ansel (this man dresses Boring but that is no fun for me to draw) #'backstory relevant' I say as I do not discuss any of these guys' backstories again. #'that's for us to know and for you to find out' I say while giving you no way at all to find out #have been in a constant state of 'by gosh having a little less blood in me would make this situation better' for several days now #and while I am using Normal methods to improve the situation drawing such things does work a bit to heal the mind #'we're doing just fine' says local guy who is madly drawing the same guys over and over again

[secondbutonenothird]

i think y'all would be blown away by how much i think about numbers and how much more i am aware about than most or all of the people that i know

#ocd: #there are two words before the word y'all which is separted by the ' creating a barrer like in sentences that are five words and are #separted by commas like hello (comma) are you okay (comma) (name) #this is three lines and too many words for it to count #sentences that look like they are seven are probably eight unless they are seem like hello are you okay and you (name) that is seven and no #eight nine can be divided into sentences like are you okay are you okay are you okay with it making sense because it is divided by 3 into 3 #which means that it is nine but even though are you okay are you okay is 3s divided it is six which is two and six and not three and nine #when you see signs twelve does not work because six cannot be divied into three and can be divided into one but that is too many words on #one line for it to be socially accpectable eight does not work on more than one line expect if you make it eight lines #nine works and three works and one works obviously #that sentence right there is ten words but 2 2 3 so sort of not working but since it is counts it is probably okay #i have figured out a lot of this and i have a ton of examples because i am working with numbers constantly #following three people having an even or odd amount of followers #five is an accpectable nummber becauuse it go like 10 15 20 and so on which are good numbers #11 and 10 look surpisingly similar and are easy to notice #watching tv shows is interesting #you can usually fix a lot of sentences with the words as but and #like if a sentence was hi how are you period i am okay you could hi as i am okay but how are you #i know that sounds like shit and does not make sense but it works for me in those kind fo situations #because i read it and edit it at the same time #books are worse because you can look at the paragraph for a while trying to figure out what makes sense #sometimes i just read them over and over again trying to figure out how to make it so the amount of lines is the right number #is the right number and the amount of sentences is the right numbeer and the words is a right number #i can explain more examples because you know i have a lot because i do this for more than like 3 hours a day for almost a year i am doing i #right now if you have not noticed that everything is following it #i swear it was there but now it is not there so i am just going to say it #sometimes i wonder if i am overexgratting how hard it is to have ocd or if it is just something simple and i should not be so fucking #dramatic #shitposting #mental illness ocd

[o-wild-west-wind]

honestly, I’m convinced that at least half the upset about the whole [redacted] situation (other than the reactionary tension of living through a world that is the way it is, but that’s the internet in general) is anger at max for forcing a shorter season that is instead misplaced towards the creatives for trying to execute their full vision under the threat of cancellation. the pacing issues are totally valid, and I get feeling that there was no breathing room for the emotions to sit, and that those factors may have led to the feeling that it was poorly done. just…please don’t harass the writers about that 🙏🏽

if you think they should’ve handled it differently knowing the budget was cut I totally get that, but genuinely—if you had a three act story fully outlined and then were told after act i aired that you only had maybe 70% of your anticipated screentime and resources to execute it, would you rewrite the entirety of your story to adjust to the constraints, or try your best to fit everything in anyway? not saying either option is superior, but I think picking the latter is a reasonable creative choice under those circumstances that anyone would at least consider. and whether or not it worked with the pacing it had is a fair critique, but that’s still not a reason to harass or guilt-trip people. let’s try not to dunk on the person who got a plastic straw while ignoring the billionaires setting the world on fire (and yes that metaphor is extreme but I’ve seen too much homophobia/racism/etc. come out of this echo-chamber to ignore the real-world implications)

#blanket disclaimer that this does not apply to everyone s/o to the people sad but not being mean about it #fwiw I thought it was fantastic aside from the pacing and I’ve talked a lot about why #but I do think some of the criticism is valid #I just don’t like the way people are like. writing open letters to the creatives or harassing their accounts about it #if some of y’all put that energy towards your political representatives…woof. #pro tip start getting involved in political activism irl and it’s amazing how much better being a fan of things will feel #declaring this my last post on the matter unless something new arises because I freaking love this show and am going to just have fun again #although lbr this has been kind of fun because I’m sadistic and unfortunately love debates #ofmd #ofmd season 2 #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 spoilers #our flag means death #fandom crit

[musical-chick-13]

So the problem is. That I don't want to call Ten-cubed "fourteen." I think Ncuti should be. Fourteen. He IS fourteen.

But if I want to talk about Ncuti's specific incarnation of this character. And make it clear that I am talking about him. I will have to call him "Fifteen." But doing that means that everyone involved in this ridiculous naming decision wins.

#maybe we call him 'gatwa!doctor' ?? #kind of like we do with the masters #(and we've done this with other doctors too like war and ruth so it's not like there's no precedent) #(then again this will change ALL the numbers going forward. like whoever's after gatwa will '''officially''' be sixteen & so on & so forth) #WHY DOES THE SAME ACTOR GET TWO NUMBERS. ONE OF THOSE WASN'T EVEN A FULL RUN. WTF RUSSELL #like I'm willing to say that maybe. MAYBE. there wasn't active malicious intent. but holy shit the optics are SO bad. #genuinely I am still mad about this and I will be forever #I promise I am not trying to make this one (1) writer man into my parasocial enemy there are plenty of other people I could do that with #who deserve it more. I just get...tired. #like really it's the fact that everyone interpreted the past 2 eras in the WORST faith possible and STRAIGHT-OUT MADE UP THINGS TO COMPLAIN #ABOUT THAT WERE NOT CANON. but there's SO little impulse to criticize ANYTHING regarding russel or dt's 70000 incarnations #which. that discrepancy/hypocrisy isn't COMPLETELY the show's fault. but that. unfortunately. doesn't make it any less annoying. #there was something else I was going to say but I deleted it for being a bit TOO salty #mel screams about The Weird Little Space Show again

[emdotcom]

I have a wild, new, & bold suggestion for a tumblr feature:

When a tag is recommended or trending. & It previews some posts IN that tag, (showing you thumbnails of art, for instance,) then maybe.

Clicking on that post. Should show you that fucking post.

#em.txt #i use mobile so maybe it's not liek this on desktop #the number of times a trending tab will preview some fire art i cannot find has built this hatred in me #the weird thing is clicking a different preview WILL take you into a different part of the tag/jumble the order #like very consistently you click post A & it shows you posts 1 then 2 then 3 #& then you click post B & it shows you 2 then 1 then 3 & clicking A again still has that 1-2-3 order #but for some reason clicking the posts does NOT show you the post you clicked #it's frustrating because like. #you're using trending as a thing to showcase yes? here's what people are talking about! #here's the current news/interests! & here's some of the big posts in that current happening! #& the majority of those tend to be like art or memes that people madr #so if you're using their shit in your broadcast i would enjoy to be able to FIND THEIR SHIT. #am i being unfair & a bitch? yes. but i was actually going to be way meaner about this #which is not an excuse at all. i know i am being vile. i do not care atm. #because yeah i am the type of person who gets mad when I can't find the artists responsible for fire stuff #if i enjoyed their art i might look at their other stuff & enjoy that too & rb & maybe follow #& then maybe my followers also do the same #but here the art is being used to pad out the trending tab but isn't being appropriately linked to #meaning it makes the trendings look good but the artist is lost while their works are still used #& that already happens enough. #i have been pissed for years at this

[coquelicoq]

okay, i give up. i'm calling it, time of death 11:02pm. i hereby officially unsubscribe from the l0tr newsletter. it's funny because whenever anyone asks me if i'm the type of person who always finishes a book even when i hate it, i'm like, "yes, except this one time i gave up on the fellowship otr after the first 50 pages when i was like 10." here we are decades later and i'm doing it again. and the best part is, i did actually successfully read this book and the other two in the series at some point in those intervening decades. i tried to read this book three times and only succeeded once. 33% hit rate, compared to my rate of 100% for every other book i have ever seriously tried to read. i really want to get it but i just don't. i'm giving myself permission to move on with my life. i'm not ashamed! i will say it since everyone else is too chicken apparently: some people find this seemingly universally beloved book series very boring and i am among their number!

#do i think they're bad books? that's the thing. i don't. i just don't personally like them #and i've decided not to waste any more of my time trying to like them. i put in the hours. it's not happening. #i tried to read them THREE SEPARATE TIMES. over the course of twenty-five years #which again is so funny. like how did 10yo me get it so right. how am i still so consistent on this one VERY specific metric #books #reading #my posts #it's a shame because people are SO into them so i do feel like i'm missing out :( but i have to live my truth 😔 #very happy for everyone who does not have this problem and either 1) happily loves the series or 2) does not care one way or the other #(also okay i do know what hereby means and i realize i have to actually unsubscribe. i can't just say it on here and hope that #the person running the newsletter happens to see this post i have deliberately censored so it won't show up #in the book or newsletter tags & removes me according only to my expressed wish in this post & without knowing my email address #don't worry. i know how this works) #(hereby is so fun to say but unfortunately my conscience won't let me use it here without this disclaimer #MISLEADING 'HEREBY' USAGE OCCURRING UNDER CONTROLLED CIRCUMSTANCES. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME) #(UNLESS YOU WANT TO I GUESS. I'M NOT THE BOSS OF YOU AND NEITHER IS THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE)

[cosmicrhetoric]

im not going to venn diagram discworld and good omens more than i have to (different books w/ different tones do different things. even if they share some jokes and plot beats) but all i will say is that you can tell the four horsemen scene in thief of time and the witch burning scene in iswm were written over a decade after GO and are um. better.

#like the esk witch burning monologue in iswm is a 2 pg piece of prose that will stay with me until i die and i know its unfair #cause the agnes nutter story is meant to be silly goofy and the iswm scene is supposed to fill you with horror forever but the difference i #stark. same w/ thief of time like actually we can make a 4 hrsemen scene heartwarming and speak 2 the beauty of humanity. who knew #maybe this does stem from my issues with s2 actually. like whats the point lol #not fucking tagging this too scared of that guy showing up on my posts #i am literally just thinking abt iswm again

[spockvarietyhour]

So I'm curious what are your thoughts on Star Trek Picard Season 3? Based on most of your tags, I get the impression that you did not enjoy it.

It is what it is. held together by duct tape and threadbare storytelling and one last hallway shootout.

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and it couldn't really save this one.

As it stands, ignoring the novels retcon, does it outperform "These are the Voyages", which also used some Enterprise-D flashbacks in it?

Oh I thought my answer was gonna be yes but I'm just.....

maybe by a nose, its better than that. This season was a mess again that didn't really know what it wanted, invested heavily in tropes and wanted a shootout a minute from the looks of it. All those scenes on M'Talas Prime, wasted potential of the Changelings (oh we fixed that. we got the transporters fixed), the omission of Laris in the finale when they made sure to put her in the season premiere.

Not to mention the Borg, oh the Borg. one transwarp hub down out of six and one dead queen is all it takes apparently.

In a way the closing scene of this season's Mandalorian and Picard reflect a poor attempt to reach an endgoal by some of the worst possible means. Those closing scenes are good but unearned.

And, this goes back to TNG-era Trek, Star Trek can't envision civilian life in these models. Everyone has to join Starfleet, we cant have any main civilian characters.

After listening too to Matalas on Gates' pod I have a feeling that we're trapped in another cycle of trying to Star-Wars-ify Trek, and the Trench run sorta reinforced that.

I think that's all I got tonight.

#I am glad the show is over. But I do need to watch the finale again with kiranerys who has been away and hasn't seen it. #but knows most of what's happened at this point 🤣 #asks #thecaptainoutoftime #star trek picard #pic #spoilers #picard spoilers #my long national nightmare is nearly over. #and I can file that into 'huh that's interesting. thankfully not canon. #OH also the Mandalorian was pretty bad this season but does it out-bad picard? in a way yes. bc we've had 2 great seasons of mando #and a decent but odd season of bobf #before s3 kinda just.....[fart noises] #whereas I knew what picard would throw would be bad #and hey! a lot of people disagree with me. people like jammer and keith ra decandido #(it's me and christopher l. bennett in the peanut gallery. tho not lockstep)

[altruistic-meme]

why do i ever assume my family communicates i KNOW they don't why do i ALWAYS fall for this

#this is mostly /lh i promise just #my mother texted me yesterday about coming over Saturday not Sunday to watch go2 #and asked if I'd be driving my sister over again (bc im practicing driving stick shift in my sister's car) #so i THOUGHT 'oh clearly she asked my sister too bc my sister ALSO sometimes works Saturdays! #and if she wanted to change the day we agreed on last week then SURLY she MUST have texted everyone who was part of the plan!!!' #i was wrong #i texted my sister to tell her 'hey call me when you're oyw so I'll wake up' and my sister. of course. DIDN'T KNOW #ABOUT THE DAY CHANGE #and she actually DOES work today (unlike me who does not which was my mom's og question) #so she CAN'T do it today #but my mom DIDN'T ASK HER #so now i texted my mom and am waiting for her to wake up and reply #bc our options are 1. hope it rains (bc my sister can't work in the rain so if it rains she gets off work) #or 2. everyone is going to be awake until 1-2am to watch the show bc it's 5-6hours long and we won't get there until like 6pm #or you know option 3. we just stick with the og plan of Sunday #but ill give my mom the options bc idc either way i have to be awake so night anyway #but everyone else watching Doesn't do they're opinions do matter here #anyway #I'm just so tired #this happens EVERY SINGLE TIME we make plans!!! #someone wants to make a change and asks one person and then that person assumes they also checked with everyone else #and they NEVER!!! DO!!!!!! #shh ac