#also will jump ahead in time

[simsstreet]

Episode 5

Melissa spent the night over at the Remond residence after a seemingly pointless meeting. Summer is coming up, will it bring more answers or just add to the confusion?

#sims street #sims street episode 5 #sims story #ts4 story #what could be comin up next? #tune in next time #also will jump ahead in time #and barbara is drinking decaf so no worries there #but also ignore the fact she's sitting next to a smoking Melissa

[dkettchen]

More lesbian sanami was requested, so please have one of the many headcanons that live in my brain rent-free

#one piece #sanji #trans!sanji #nami #sanami #I have more sketches #that I will actually render some of properly but have a few sketch panels until then #that one ask has made this jump the queue way ahead of opla zosan shit #also please enjoy the newest addition to the wearing her old clothes over a tank top collection #we're layering this time #it's supposed to be the suit jacket & shirt canon time skip sanji wore on the return day

[moghedien]

love that Egwene is immediately like "NYNAEVE PROTECT US" and then Nynaeve is like "I CAN'T" and Elayne is just silently like "on it besties"

#elayne will wait that she's just jumping ahead in line before she starts eletrocuting people #this is actually also kinda sad because something something Nynaeve and Egwene are gonna realize that Nynaeve isn't able to protect Eggy #as much as they both want her to be able to #wot on prime #wot show spoilers #wheel of time #elayne trakand #egwene al'vere #nynaeve al'meara

[claudiasescapesubmarine]

going off of what dwreader and ghostfoolish have been saying better than i can:

why do people think louis will still be a believable victim and it won't be racist if the show just has armand mess with louis's memories regarding 1x05 and how claudia died, and also be controlling him throughout the entire interview/relationship? like not only does it paint victims of abuse as unreliable and unstable, therefore not be trusted with anything*, but it also, just, shifts most if not all the blame from a white man to a poc? we've asking this the entire time, but they still don't have an answer for that.

*like statistically speaking victims of abuses' memories might be muddled/repressed from the trauma, so even though they know the abuse happened, people will use the fact that they might not be able to describe an entire fight in specific detail, or got some dates mixed up, or did not speak up sooner, to paint them as mentally ill liars, or even abusers themselves. which is why i think giving louis false memories in 1x05 is still victim blaming in a way, because it encourages the trend of victims not being believed.

#iwtv discourse #fandom racism #yeah like i'm fully confident the creators are smart and can write their show better than i can but #if these little hints and teasing turns out to be a red herring like it did for 1x07 then it regardless might have #encouraged some of the audience to initally just disregard EVERYTHING louis says in season 1 and think he has no agency #which goes against their original statement of not jumping ahead and letting the tale seduce you you know? #i really just want to enjoy the ride and see where the show takes us and love all the stuff we've been given lately it's just #i keep being reminded these fans exist if i'm not careful where i look lol #i do get marketing is a thing and maybe they think they constantly need to tease SOMETHING #a shocking reveal or a revisit promising something more in order to get more seasons seeing as it's so easy for shows to be cancelled now #but like every time new content is released it also brings out the racism

[svtskneecaps]

today may be a weird day for this bc i'm HOPING there won't be much of a trash fire in the tag, comparatively, but if discourse, neg, or server happenings get you stressed, pro tip!! THAT MEANS IT'S DUOLINGO TIME!!!!! channel your gamer rage and viewer stress into SICK NASTY LANGUAGE LEARNING

#qsmp #i was getting too wrapped up in rooting for my team so i closed stream and did duo until the server closed #it worked!!!! lmfao it worked during the election arc too so hot tip! #also if you don't think you're learning anything try doing a jump ahead quiz and see if you can pass it #french and spanish have enough overlap that for the last three days i've just been jumping ahead one at a time #today was the first time i actually failed one so now i get to finally learn a conjugation i don't know! #instead of just. more fucking nouns. lmfao #shut up vic #block game brainrot

[milkweedman]

I am sorry you've been harrassed by terfs, but the way you are currently trying to weed them out seems a bit misguided. As in, the vast majority of terfs are in fact ok with big hairy CIS men. The so-called men they are actively hating are trans women/transfem people. So by acting like you proclaiming your love to big hairy dudes is the best terf-repellant you seem to be missing the point at best.

i'd love to actually respond to your concerns or whatever the hell it was that you were trying to convey with this ask, but it has almost no basis in reality so i literally cant.

thats the one statement on how effective i think the banners are that has left my queue so far. which is: i hope it works but also have literally 2 other backup plans already in case it does not. i dont know why youre calling that "acting like [me] proclaiming [my] love to big hairy dudes is the best terf-repellant", because thats wildly off target from what i have actually said at any point. everything else youve said is also pretty much either dead wrong or ignorant, so im getting the feeling that you not reading has been a problem for a while.

(ive also not mentioned terfs this entire time--ive been talking about radfems and using the word radfems. they're not the same thing although there's large overlap. so like. thats strike two for zero reading comprehension, buddy. cause you are literally not talking about the group im talking about and youre also inventing whole new sentences that i didnt say.)

#obviously reading ability does not equal intelligence. more about the wild overconfidence of someone who didnt bother to check if they #even read a statement correctly #i misread things all the time which is why i also dont barge into strangers inboxes to insult THEIR intelligence #because i know theres always a chance im completely wrong and i dont want to be an asshole #anon you could give that a try #like what am i even supposed to say to this ? i dont think its the best terf repellant and have never said that ? #but if you know so much about them go ahead and tell us your suggestions for how to get rid of them #im skeptical that they will make any sense at all but im always open to new ideas #(feels nice to be condescended to doesnt it ? i assume thats why you were condescending to me so im returning the favor <3) #anyway other than this fool thank you all for the supportive asks im glad youre enjoying the banners ! so am i :D #way too soon to tell if theyre working (no radfems yet but i usually get a wave of them every couple months so i wont jump to conclusions) #but just as blog decor theyre already great #there are many many asks though and i dont enjoy when this blog is less fiber craft than other stuff #so im reading each one and appreciating them but please dont be upset that im not responding to them or posting them #i have the first 2 i got in my queue and then i got like 20 more so

[masonjarsmoments]

Got the first pictures/videos from my friend who is in Willingen and yeah there's regret that I didn't got tickets again because like every year I have to work.

#how is it even possible that since 2017 every time Willingen was i was working and also couldn't take the weekend off #but i will definitely plan ahead for next year #ski jumping

[alfhildr-the-word-weaver]

Okay, so. I finally downloaded a VPN so I could watch Doctor Who on the BBC site, but even with my location set to London, it's still not working. I clicked on the little troubleshooting link (of course I'm in the UK BBC, don't you see my IP address?), and one of the suggestions was to turn off any VPNs. Is this just in case a British person forgot their IP address was set to somewhere else, and maybe the VPN I got isn't very good, or is it not possible to watch on the BBC site with a VPN at all? Is anybody out there having any luck with this, and if so, what VPN are you using? Or does anybody have any... other suggestions for somewhere else I could maybe watch Doctor Who online?

#Doctor Who #VPNs #streaming advice #bbc iplayer #troubleshooting #see I did buy the 13th Doctor's first season on Amazon but it's soooo annoying to have to buy every season and special individually #and I see that the 60th special is available on Disney Plus now which is great! but I don't want to jump ahead in the new series! #I jump around in the classic stuff all the time but so far I've always watched NuWho in order. and for me that means Resolution is next #and like I know spoilers from later in 13's run sure but I just want to watch it in order still #and I thought I'd figured it out but this is still all very frustrating #also the VPN I got is called Super Unlimited Proxy. I was just looking for a free one that let me do England and that's the first I found #I'm putting Thirteen's DVD box collection on my Christmas list but all of this chatter about the 60th makes me want to catch up ASAP #it's actually the first time I've bothered to filter Doctor Who spoiler tags on my tumblr dash #but I know I can only hold them off for so long... #plus I'm just in a mood for binging #even in the tags I ramble #anyways thanks in advance for any advice! #but yeah it's funny when I came back to tumblr with my vpn on it asked me about cookies and I'm like why is tumblr asking about cookies #all of a sudden? oh it thinks I'm British. lol. shouldn't it be saying biscuits then? ;)

[detectiveconnor]

"Don't touch him."

Diego thought this man was dangerous.

Sir Reginald Hargreeves, as slimy as they came, with a cane and a monocle which, when Connor scanned it, returned an output that didn't suggest Mr Hargreeves held a prescriptive lens. There was something to be said for the fact Diego thought he - Connor - warranted defending from this man. Connor had come into this meeting largely neutral, unimpressed with what he knew of the man but willing to maintain a relatively clean slate for the sake of negotiation.

"Fascinating," Reginald said, as he shook Connor's hand, past Diego's protest.

Connor decided then and there, in that precise moment, that he did not like him one bit, and would deal with him the way one might deal with a venomous snake pit.

"The outside world's work with AI has truly come an extraordinary way. Tell me, do you believe you're free?"

Did this man ever leave the house? Connor's LED remained its low, calm, cycling blue. He felt Reginald's eyes lift to it. Connor ensured it remained steady. He released Reginald's hand.

"Now, I don't meant to be rude," said the slimy rich billionaire with a taste for things he found f a s c i n a t i n g, "but it's always good to know the ... limitations of existing technologies. My own work has been a constant revision. I wonder --" he lifted his hands, as though to ask to get his hands in 'the guts of it all', and Connor thought: Diego was right, this was a waste of their time.

"My name is Connor," Connor said, flatly, because Reginald had not asked, nor introduced himself, nor seemed to care in any way that he was indeed a person.

This seemed to take him aback somewhat. "Well-" a beat: "of course, I know, my boy. Elijah hardly stopped speaking of you since he wrote you."

Wrote you. Like that was something to do, to 'write' a person. It felt dirty in some way. As much as Amanda had touched everything he'd ever thought or had in his head before he got rid of her, Elijah Kamski had, at some point, written the words he used to think with, the framework he had to work within.

"He's very proud," Reginald said. Like a compliment.

"He's dead," Connor said, flatly.

"Pity." (How immediately and neutrally it was said, Connor doubted this came as a surprise to Reginald at all - and if it did, he would have bet money it did not matter to him in the least.)

"He held an archive of data of particular interest to me. I have reason to believe he shared some of this with friends, for security reasons." Destroying his home was not enough to rid the world of it. "Does that sound familiar, Mr Hargreeves?"

Slimy asshole.

"It may." Like he had conditions, wanted something in exchange, was prepared to bargain for basic access to information he probably had no idea how to use or - worse - information he knew precisely how to use. His mistake was this: Connor did not negotiate with people like this. They were slimy assholes.

"Got it," Connor said, and he turned right around and left the room. He did not get the satisfaction of Mr Hargreeves calling out after him, but he would have liked it.

So it was in the building, somewhere. He was going to find it.

"You were right," Connor said, when Diego joined him, later: "I don't like him."

#ic #twicecut #shrug shrug shrug shrug shrug i have not actually spent a lot of time on reginald at all #also shrug shrug shrug i know we haven't actually Written these two but we have done lots of discord conversations and im jumping ahead #a bit here bc i had the thought and i like writing for you but if this does not work there is no pressure attached! or if you want to wait #to develop a relationship more! just here they are anyway in general #connor would not have told diego at this point that He killed kamski but could have said 'he Took something from me' #and 'he's dead' so diego can make of that what he will #also reginald is alive here which. #i am aware. #but here i am

[jacquelinemerritt]

Dragon Ball Z: Abridged - Christmas Tree of Might Review

Originally posted on December 25th, 2015

Goku starring in a Christmas special somehow makes perfect sense.

It is incredibly strange to me the ease with which Team Four Star blends the themes characteristic of a Christmas special with the universe of Dragonball Z. The idea that Goku would be the most stalwart defender of Christmas in the universe works surprisingly well, and making it so the Tree of Might sucks the Joy of ChristmasTM from the earth instead of its energy is a change that I didn’t question for a second.

I’m also reminded of Princess Snake, and I see this film as a good indicator of the growth experienced by Team Four Star between then and now. Back then, they wrote an entire episode based on the (unfunny) joke that Princess Snake and Solid Snake share the same name, so why not have her voice be a (albeit decent) David Hayter impression? With this film though, Team Four Star has taken the strange concept of a Dragonball Z Christmas film and built upon that in every possible aspect.

Part of the success of this is that they go out of their way to imbue every aspect of the film with signifiers of the Christmas season; the inclusion of Christmas music at every opportunity is one of the tricks they use most often, and their use of a metal rendition of “Deck the Halls” as the theme for the destruction of the earth is particularly clever.

All of the villains being “misfit minions” of Christmas is a great touch as well, and though the casual mentions of animal rape and child molestation tip slightly over the line of good taste, it’s still made very clear that these villains are just the type of despicable who would wish to destroy Christmas.

Except for Turle, that is. His story of the injustice of Freeza Day is just unfortunate enough to raise the question of whether or not we have a right to celebrate joy and peace when many around us are suffering, and Team Four Star wisely leaves that question unanswered. Even the reveal that Santa didn’t visit planet Vegeta out of fear for his own safety calls into question our willingness to actually spread the love we preach during this holiday.

Another significant moral question is raised when Gohan passingly mentions the rise of depression and suicides during the holidays, as he makes fun of Yamcha for his obsession with material possession causing him to feel destitute. Who’d have thought that a comedic adaptation of a silly Japanese anime would raise such significant questions about our holiday?

Rating: 4.5/5

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Stray Observations

I love that Krillin’s wish for a kickass Christmas tree is the reason for Turle and his gang’s arrival.

King Kai: “Are we laughing at Yamcha, ‘cause I’m always up for that.”

Gohan: “Santa’s just gonna bring me books again.”

Chi Chi: “He brings you what you like, and what do you like?”

Gohan: “I like books!”

Gohan: “Don’t talk s*** about Santa!”

Jinga: “Jinga!”

Beru: “And Beru!”

Tien: “F***ING WEABOOS!”

“This is so non-canon it hurts.”

Goku: “What’d you get for Freeza Day?”

Turle: “He blew our planet up!”

Merry Christmas, everyone!

#dragon ball z abridged #dragon ball z #team four star #dbza #film criticism #dbza christmas #am i jumping ahead a little? #absolutely #but i couldn't resist posting this one on Christmas :) #I think this review is solid #and I love Christmas Tree of Might so much #it was actually my introduction to Dragon Ball Z: Abridged #so thanks to you friend who showed me this great episode of a fantastic series #also! #happy Chanukah #merry christmas #happy holidays #and a very wonderful time to all of you!

[thatnerdydino]

finished watching desconjuração

#SPOILERS AHEAD #i cried for the entirety of the last 30min #i know gal's one of the bad guys #but during the battle with him i couldnt help but root for him a bit. he has an Aura that's for sure #also bc i accidentally glanced at some screenshots from the next season and knew which characters were gonna make it #so i wasnt that worried #though i did have a mini heart attack when gal almost killed arthur #bro i fucking JUMPED out of my bed when veríssimo blocked that shit. WITH ARNALDO FRITZ'S FUCKIN SWORD. LIKE BRO #also the SHOCK when cellbit did the grand reveal abt who kian really was #my jaw was left hanging open #erin's death had me feeling equal parts sad and happy #sad that she got turned into a human shishkebab by gal but happy that she went out in her own terms. in a way #plus the damage her grenades did was nothing to scoff at #i didnt even have time to process fe getting fucking thanos-snapped out of existence #then the masked guys came #and thats when everything started going downhill (emotionally) #I FUCKING KNEW from the moment cellbit mentioned the fog dissipating and kaiser was standing in front of kian. i knew what he was gonna do #and yet i broke down completely when he spoke his final words #from that point onward it was nonstop crying til the end of the episode man #'always the three of us' my ass THEY TOOK MY BOY'S HOMIES. BOTH OF THEM #and then the post credits scene #i had to muffle my fucking sobbing cause 1) my roommate was studying for an exam they had in the morning #and 2) it was 1 in the fucking morning and my neighbour's bedroom is on the other side of the wall #holy fuckign shit cellbit what the fuck man #i shouldve known better after witnessing the finale of osnf. but you know how it is with hope #its gonna be another sleepless night after taking all that in #the feeling of loss and mourning is unreal #no tv series or movies have ever made me cheer or sob or feel like these made-on-the-fly stories have. not one #i hope that one day I'll be fluent enough in portuguese so i can rewatch and understand these series in their entirety #its 3:51am. goodnight

[franeridan]

I love sabaody.... but I also hate sabaody...... you know what I mean...........

#I don't think I've ever managed to properly go through this arc again after the first time #I'm always skipping ahead and jumping scenes somehow I just can't stomach it #but at the same time i love it so much?? #luffy and honestly the whole crew are spectacular through it and law finally shows up!!!! #there are some scenes that I adore but also some scenes that i just can't go through #it's so heavy the mood is so heavy #it's not like bad things don't happen over and over in op but sabaody is really the first time you see just how ugly the op world is right #the reframing of the world you've known for fify volumes by that point isn't THAT big #but it's just the right shade of disturbing that every time it gets to me like it's the first #maybe even worse than the first since i know it's coming? #anyway #I'm getting ready to properly read it without skipping ahead for the first time in...about fourteen years #wish me luck it's going Amazing atm i reached the first panel law shows up in and then slammed the volume shut like #SAW THE BOY NO REASON TO LINGER THIS'LL BE A PROBLEM FOR TOMORROW ME HAHAHA #........ it'll take me a week to read two volumes if this is how it'll be

[ecoamerica]

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[rosielav]

I loved the bright sessions, reading your thoughts has been so interesting! There's two sequel shows to it (and a crossover with ars paradoxica)

Haha it's very nice that my thoughts are reaching the right audience! I love being wrong about things, being surprised, but it's also cool getting things right time to time.

What're the sequels to it? I'd love to have more stuff in the same universe :)

#the bright sessions #rosie answers #Podcasts #I keep forgetting that I have this to listen to and every time I get so excited #I've... Hmm I can't say I've enjoyed every episode #Bc some are difficult to listen to #But in a compelling way that I understand #If that makes sense #I do tend to overthink things #But also I tend to assume that every podcast relies heavily on tropes by default #So I jump three steps ahead in that tropey line of thinking and say X is where this will culminate #Why didn't I write all this in the post? #The tags are where I live lol #I prefer this place for like noncomplete sentences #And random thoughts #I'm glad some people read them haha

[stardustedknuckles]

I've been 🥰🥰 about watching Yasha read the letter while Beau is tripping over her post-burlesque in Nicodranas but I like to look at this as Beau remembering hey, she actually hasn't been an asshole in a while - what's jester up to?

#It also means that yasha bot jumped ahead #And we're not going to see them meet at the same time #But that's okay #I'm glad they're back #Actually yasha didn't jump ahead Beau cycled back #Beauyasha bots

[amtrak12]

Ugh! Has anyone else ever looked at a story idea and said 'You are two separate stories'? Because the starting point and the end point - while definitely connected - are so far apart that you know with absolute certainty it takes two arcs to tie them together? And yet you cannot for the life of you figure out what those two separate arcs are no matter how long you poke at the story idea???

Because that's been me for months now and I'm fucking OVER IT. Just let me have my outline already!

#Yes this is about me and my two sequels to my Time traveling toddler Lucifer fanfic #Yes I am obsessing over these sequels instead of refining the details of book 1 #(which btw doesn't even need sequels as it stands just fine on its own) #No that doesn't mean I'm jumping ahead of myself or making my life more difficult on purpose #I want the three outlines all at once! #(also no I don't know why my phone randomly capitalized Time up there but I'm sure af not retyping tags just to fix that)

[malaismere]

honestly my biggest wish for EXU Calamity is that they aren’t playing 5e but instead an older edition (2e would be fun, but for THAC0 considerations I’ll say 3/3.5). because i live the idea that the world used to just be different, have different rules, long ago - like Halas talking about healing spells being necromancy. according to an older game rules

On the other hand I want/expect it to be lvl20 - or, at least, 15+, and dropping players into a system they don’t know at that high a level...

#critical role #exu calamity #I know that Brennan only switched over to 5e for d20 which is why ep2 of Fantasy High went Like That #so I feel confident that he’d run a fantastic game in older editions #and yeah the cr crew all used to play pathfinder which is built off 3e #but that was years ago so idk if they’d want to jump in at high level #especially because at a high level game you’d want to be messing around with prestige classes a bunch #running 2e and using thaco would be so funny tho. #my actual thought is specifically that 1e is for around the time of the founding / war with elementals #then it’s 2e although somewhere it switches to 3e #because Halas is operating in 2e for necromancy thing to be true but also he jumps ahead in time a lot sooo #and 4e happens during the Calamity bc it’s so designed for tactical combat #with post divergence being 5e

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