#arbitrary speaks

[arbitrarycategories]

what if I indulged my inner twelve year old and wrote crossover fanfiction

#it would be pjo x dc bc I’ve been reading a lot of batfam fic #I can’t stop brainstorming Tim as a demigod who encounters Grover Annabeth and Percy and just has to cope with that #tim calling Cassie: THERE ARE CRAZY PEOPLE HERE WHO SAY THEYRE DEMIGODS #Cassie: ooooh yeah. yeah I don’t run in those circles but if they say ur a demigod you should probably go with them #tim: how could you betray me like this #was Cassie also made from clay??? unfortunately I don’t know anything about Wonder Girl I’m so sorry #I want Tim to be a low-powered child of Aphrodite and when he finds out he’s just like aaa this explains why I’m so good at disguises #Gotham city has crazy levels of Mist bc it’s being patroned by Hecate #so most monsters don’t bother #also most intelligent monsters look at the batshit crazy mortals and are like. yeah we’ll stick to NY and Cali where the most demigods are #in my brain it’s actually Grover’s fault that the trio are in Gotham he wants to recruit Poison Ivy to help restore the Wild #percy and Annabeth insist on coming with to protect him and also bc they’re bored #they run into 20yo tim and grover is like DAMN how are you alive??? and Tim just has. no idea what the fuck they’re talking about #arbitrary speaks

[merrunzs]

anyway does anyone ever think abt how lonely the chosen are.

how ketheric does everything for his family but he is the only one really left. everything in his home and everyone he loves are either dead or twisted by the shadow curse that kills everything there anyway. isobel, the daughter he had being doing Everything for, ran from him when she found out what he had become to save her

how gortash was always too smart for his own good that he was cast out and sold like damaged goods by his own parents . he was sold to the hells where nobody is your friend . he is the chosen of bane, representing the sphere of tyranny and subjugation, in which nobody is your friend. he has the entire city under his thumb either through fear or his charm and the brittle, tense partnership with ketheric and orin and yet he has no true allies (except the durge arguably but. theyre either gone or dont remember him) . how he Seeks Out the equal partnership with tav/amnesiac durge which to me seems So antithetical to banes sphere- i cant imagine theyre too fond of sharing- in a way that fascinates me so much

how orin is a bhaalspawn that has never been good enough. never pure enough. she has always been second best, the childish girl to durges mastery. how she does everything for sarevok and for bhaal she has nothing but her family and that temple. no matter how much she devotes herself to them she is only ever looked upon by her only loved ones with hatred and contempt. orin whos own mother attacked her on sarevoks orders. orin who is unwanted wherever she goes no matter how hard she tries to be the very best

the dark urge, too. durge who is a tool, a vessel and instrument for their fathers will. when sarevok says 'you belong to bhaal. he manifests within you' . how theyre shackled to bhaal and kept from everything else. the first people they ever killed were their family. even in the temple, with their True family, durge is alienated from orin and sarevok by virtue of being made and not born, not connected to their shared bloodline. durge who is constantly pushed onto a pedestal by those in the temple through their divinity and purity and has never had a true peer to stand beside before gortash. durge who is so so cut off from other people and intimacy and who is forced to kill everyone they get close to or love by their father and the urge. durge who is an object for bhaals use, unafforded the mortal luxury of real connection

deeply deeply interested by how they are all such powerful and influential characters and yet all have such a strong theme of isolation. :(

#the chosen being my favourite characters in this game is my cross to bear unfortunately. Who the fuck are the tadpole gang #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #ketheric thorm #enver gortash #lord enver gortash #orin the red #the dark urge #the durge #durge #the chosen #sunny speaks #sunny thinks #<- Kind of. my tagging system is beautiful and arbitrary like that #bg3 spoilers

[apollos-boyfriend]

this is like. all fully speculation. but i was rewatching some of jaiden’s nuzlocke videos, and them combined with a recent clip of hers i saw talking about how she’s not even sure why quackity chose her for the qsmp made me connect why he might’ve picked her. because like. i think nearly everyone was a bit shocked, if not confused, to see her on the lineup. despite having been in the scene for a while—her first public animations were for ihascupquake, after all—jaiden isn’t your first thought when you think of minecraft youtubers. as far as i’m aware, she was on one smp before the qsmp—epicsmp, and we all know how that ended.

no, jaiden isn’t who you’d think of when you think minecraft youtuber. but she is who you’d think of when you think storyteller. which, yeah, is kind of obvious. there’s a whole subcategory of youtube for animated storytellers, and jaiden’s been one of the front runners for years now. but the thing about jaiden specifically is that she doesn’t just tell stories. she shapes them. you can really see that the most with her animated nuzlockes. she’s given scenarios and events that are largely random and arbitrary, fully just game coding and out of her control, and she turns them into her story. her platinum nuzlocke specifically highlights this with the giratina, two jaidens storyline she creates to explain her resetting the run and attempting the elite four again.

live mcrp HEAVILY relies on having to go with the flow of the game, and learning to work around in-game mechanics and limitations to create a storyline out of. things that are story-important, like pets or npcs, are fragile and can be taken away at any moment, be it by a mob, glitch, or player error. you have to be able to think on your feet to not only work around it, but create a narrative to explain that decision fitting into the canon and story instead of just taking it at face-value. and that’s exactly what jaiden’s been doing for years now with a lot of her gaming-based content. quackity would need people accustomed versatile storytelling as much as he’d need people accustomed to survival minecraft itself, and jaiden is nothing short of an expert at her craft

#icarus speaks #idk i just have a lot of love for her #and her storytelling capabilities #and it just. hit me. how well suited she is for mcrp #because she creates from the arbitrary #she takes game mechanics and turns them into concrete storylines #and yeah! that’s what mcrp relies on! #utilizing game mechanics and randomness to create a story #you have to really be creative and think outside the box to connect mechanics to in-character development #and that’s what jaiden’s been doing for years! she’s MADE for stuff like this #and i think that’s partially why she specifically was chosen

[sparring-spirals]

choosing to think that Imogen rolling poorly is because of an unknown, extradimensional Bailey Effect. Somewhere out there, unbeknownst to her, Jester Lavorre is accidentally siphoning away all of her good luck and universal wiggle room for things like 'inventing unicorn hamsters" "slightly altering the fabric of space and time to dunk on an enemy" "putting hats on the unicorn hamsters". and thats why, in the meantime, sometimes when imogen does her dang best to cast a spell she falls down a flight of stairs. or turns blue.

#i like to think that in parallel with imogen Going Through It jester lavorre is somewhere out there using the universes favor for the most #arbitrary thing. like its very specifically NOT about the magic its about the universe deciding to give wiggle room or let things slide #imogen is pinball-machining thru space and time . meanwhile jester is forcefully reworking some spell laws for a funny lil prank #critical role #ill watch the rest of the last episode and scream about it i promise. but in the meantime. i will continue dunking on imogen. bc of course. #:) #jester lavorre #imogen temult #laura bailey #spar speaks #shitpost

[irbcallmefynn]

Eventually the cringe energy within me will start bouncing around at such a high speed it will only be comprehendable as a tone. This tone will, of course, match the resonant frequency of reality (comparable to the resonant frequency of an orange) which will cause the laws of physics to be shaken apart violently, allowing me to perform ACE (Asexual Code Execution) and run Doom on every Chrysanthemum on Earth simultaneously. The combined satanic energy from this (identified by the Catholic church) will activate a sleeper agent gene in every therian in the world, causing us to all immediately transmogrify into our true selves.

When will this happen? Uhh idk I'll have to get back to you on that.

#shitpost #if i make shitposts about enough things at once i can bridge the gap between many communities and destroy the walls that restrict us #resonant frequency #arbitrary code execution #asexual #doom #therian #this is my ultimate plan. it is already underway as we speak. for i am becoming more cringe by the second. #i am cringe but i am POWERFUL

[waterloggedsoliloquy]

what

#cecil draws #i don't think thrawn would visibly show any reaction to this: #that this whole time sicelys just passively and casually anticipating arbitrary violence from him with them as the receptacle #and that they think this is an acceptable tradeoff for the privilege of proximity #but he would be quietly horrified on the matter. #listen. fighting a teenager in a war context is one thing. brutalizing a prisoner/diplomat teenager is another. #(and even if he didnt make a general distinction between the two his cognitive dissonance would kick in and he'd invent a reason why sicely #is an exception.) #even though speaking frankly the basis of that reason would be ''because i possess them'' #sicely nohell #im too embarrassed to put this one in the thrawn tag

[definitelynotshouting]

Coming to you as both a big fan of your hunger au and a chemist.

You keep describing Grian’s feeding as an absorption of beta waves of a specific frequency from the brain. You’ve also teased that Doc eventually finds a way to feed Grian without him having to mind melt his friends.

My logical conclusion: Doc periodically sticks Grian in what is essentially a microwave modified to produce the correct frequency and I cannot stop laughing at the mental image. I like to think someone (maybe Mumbo) adds a timer that does the classic ding after a certain period so they don’t over caffeinate the bird.

this is the most terrifying ask in my inbox do you mean to tell me there are STEM people who actually know what theyre doing looking at my silly au that i do maybe 2 hrs of research on any one topic for before plonking it in. i feel like im about to be arrested for speculative biology crimes take me away officer

slash jays aside this is the FUNNIEST mental image to me... they fucking rotisserie chickened him..... Rotate Your Bird For Maximum Frequency Coverage. Mumbo would absolutely add a sound effect button. This is incredible i might genuinely put a reference to this idea in the fic just for how hysterical it is

#shouting speaks #asks #grian #watcher grian #docm77 #mumbo jumbo #hermitcraft #hunger au #GENUINELY ANON THIS JUMPSCARED ME BUT IN A /POS KINDA WAY #what do u mean science folks are Looking at my au #im just a squeaky toy of a guy theres a sniper's dot on my fucking forehead now and theyre about to take the shot #anyway out of everyone speculating abt the Mystery Solution u are the closest SJDNDJD im handing u a juicebox #i dont wanna reveal exactly what it is for fully arbitrary reasons #but im starting to wonder if thats unintentionally hyping up said reveal to an ultimately underwhelming solution WHEEEEZE #me when i accidentally flashboil all of you #txt

[fullscoreshenanigans]

Debating whether to make the criminally underexplored platonic dynamics polls into a tournament (with the top two or three from the Grace Field kids, Goldy Pond crew, Lambda/Paradise Hideout gang, and free-for-all rounds advancing to a final round).

I'm also taking suggestions for any of these, either in the reblogs or replies of this post, or as asks or in a DM. The requirement is a panel of the two characters interacting* in the manga or a piece of official Demizu art must be included in the suggestion, or in lieu of the picture itself, the chapter citation of where the panel is in the manga.

Notes: • One suggestion per person per poll on a first come, first serve basis. 11 options per poll, with #12 being "other." • Adam, Emma, Lucas, and Yuugo are eligible characters for the GP poll. • Lucas & Oliver, Yuugo & Emma, Yuugo & Ray, and Gillian & Nigel are ineligible dynamics for any of the polls. • Free-for-all is technically everything not covered in the three prior polls (e.g., Nigel & Yvette, Gilda & Violet, Pepe & Ray, etc. If there's enough interest in a demon-exclusive poll, it can be a separate fifth poll. Otherwise, stuff like Leuvis & Sonju goes here.) • *"Interaction" preferably being them talking or engaging in something together intentionally, but if you want to stretch it, it can be two characters just conveniently standing next to each other (because the potential is there Shirai throw us a bone.)

#think that's everything #ineligible dynamics are ofc not bad at all #but feels like comparatively speaking fandom has them more than covered lol so arbitrary elimination to satisfy my curiosity #for GP poll I already have Adam & Paula and/or Adam & Violet #think the only time we ever see James & Smee interacting is the Ch173 side scene </3 #The Promised Neverland #TPN #TPN Polls #FSS Polls #FSS Shenanigans #Goldy Pond Crew #Lambda Gang

[aroanthy]

hi!! i know u talk a lot about aromanticism a lot on here, but i don’t think i’ve ever seen u talk about aromantic anthy. would u mind discussing/elaborating on it or linking to a post where u do because i’m very curious!!

i got a similar ask half a year ago or something ridiculous like that on my main blog, but i’d like to really do justice to my url right now and explain it in more concrete terms.

i will say, it’s important to bear in mind that this reading of anthy’s character is very much informed by my own experiences, and a lot of those experiences are ones im not keen to talk in depth about. but you know. let’s make some nebulous gestures towards ideas of being traumatised, being autistic, struggling to meaningfully connect with others and honestly not really wanting to do such because of how they treat you.

like ive previously said, an aromantic perspective on the world would, i think, really benefit anthy. when youve lived your whole life experiencing violence at the hands of these patriarchal structures, of which romance is absolutely one, it’s kinda like. damn. im uncomfortable buying into those ideas.

anthy also has this lovely line in ep 19 where she says to utena ‘romance either happens or it doesn’t’ and it’s just sooooooo. so very interesting to me, actually, that anthy would say something so black and white about ‘romance’, a topic that anthy knows better than a lot of rgu characters is hopelessly confused and arbitrary and often enabling violence. and utena (fellow aromantic gaybo) says 'yeah, i know, but...'. these simplifications, these elisions. what is and isn't articulated. but what? maybe things are much more complicated than we'd like to think.

anyway enough of that tangent. one thing i as a trans and aromantic person always return to when discussing trans and aromantic readings of characters/texts more broadly is that there's no singular piece of evidence that can really cement these readings as Undeniable. it's like. okay. there's a critique of romance as a patriarchal structure in revolutionary girl utena. there's an ambiguity about anthy's feelings towards characters like utena, where there is clearly a queer connection but it takes shape in unconventional and complex ways. me, i'm aromantic, i see all of these pieces and i go oh well that's because she's an aromantic lesbian. you know, there's plenty of little moments i can evidence but those moments can be used to argue for an alloromantic lesbian anthy too. romance is a very arbitrary thing and i think everyone should take their own approach to it unapologetically. of course, mine is that it's hellish and i want nothing to do with it, but im just one guy. and im okay with that. i feel strongly about this reading and it is personal, and id be dishonest to say otherwise, but i do also find that it's well-evidenced in the text. as one of my lecturers once said, don't worry about authorial intent, it isn't real <3

#and authorial intent is NOT real i really cant emphasise that one enough #like it's fun to engage with the stuff a writer/director/whoever thinks about their art #and it can be very useful #but it's not definitive. that's not the last word on the topic #like did be papas consciously write any rgu character as aromantic? idk probably not #but i find such powerful aromantic narratives and themes coming through in this show #in how it chooses to examine relationships and power dynamics and the pervasive nature of romance as a concept #how it is so easily unequal how it is DESIGNED to be unequal how it offers chivalry and safety to mitigate harm #which it directly enables. makes easier #and that doesnt mean that aromanticism is the only solution bc you know. some ppl do feel romantic attraction #but it's like ok let's rethink 'romance'. let's combat amatonormativity let's challenge the relationship hierarchy that privileges #families and romantic partners in such a dangerous dangerous way #and i see all of that in this show and it resonates so deeply with my experiences many of which pertain to aromanticism #and you know. this show made me accept that im aromantic. so i think that speaks to how strongly these themes come through #but i digress. i find it hard to talk about this stuff bc its deeply personal and quite arbitrary #and also every time i do someone sends me anon hate about how i hate gay people. which is so cool btw please keep doing that #i didnt realise that loving being gay and loving gay people and loving when gay people love each other made me homophobic /s #just to clarify for the second time that is all sarcasm im gay and aromantic and i dont have time for arophobia here #anywayyyyy #im aware of all the asks ppl have sent me. im working on it i prommy <3 #dais.txt #dais talks aspec

[arbitrarycategories]

Got married in stardew valley and I am completely overwhelmed by the fact that I can KISS my spouse!! Nobody warned me!! I can give her kisses just whenever and acodoekdbfd I LOVE HER SO MUCH

#stardew valley #going slightly insane but in a good way #arbitrary speaks

[yooniesim]

the people trying to gatekeep kpop from black people really don't know where kpop even comes from and it shows

#ceci speaks #text #nonsims #negative #delete later #i swear theres some surface level thinkers on this site fr #yall asses ever heard of a little thing called motown or nah #the musical influence and the trainee system all comes from the work of black ppl #not to mention all the black writers and producers that make kpop songs #kpop is multicultural at its core ok #and yall saying only Koreans can enjoy it is just ur own racism coming to light #just say you dont want black ppl in your spaces and go #also you can just dislike ppl without making up arbitrary reasons why its 'okay' to #everyone you disagree with doesnt have to be problematic in some manner for you to justify it #so stop making up shit and demonizing ppls interests and idk touch grass #ya freaks #sorry im used to it with me but seeing it happen to other blk ppl burns me up #leave them alone u corny unwashed basement dwelling weirdos

[apollos-boyfriend]

sam nook is one of my favorite characters because he just doesn't abide by any understandable regulations. he'll ask you to bring him thirty stacks of cobblestone, fifty-two torches, an inventory's worth of acacia saplings, dream's head on a pike, and your firstborn son, and when you get to the build he'll use absolutely none of said items. where do they go. why does he need them. king shit.

#icarus speaks #icarus liveblogs #his requests are so arbitrary i love them adlkfj

[pipskippy]

speaking of common threads btwn favorite characters i keep thinking about the alluka/nanika and falin similarities mostly the being treated as dangerous and wrong as a young child and isolated yet still being so so kind and healing….and especially the kindness and acceptance of the parts of them that people treat as dangerous or evil…in terms of older brothers of course laios’s reaction to falin’s chimeraness and aptitude for magic is very different from killua’s initial mistrust/misunderstanding of nanika but. im so thinking about it

#twewy spoilers #hxh spoilers #dungeon meshi spoilers #the allukananika alphonse rhyme falin etc archetype of little sisters that are so so niceys and have some kind of supernatural or monster-y #side. like its crazy how much overlap there is in their respective older brothers too like. guilt complex for having turned little sister #into Creature. guilt about not being a responsible older brother. #and this applies to fewer of the ones i mentioned but feeling responsible for younger sister’s death #and guilty about what they had to do to bring them back #i’m saying little sister even though i included rhyme who i hc as she/they nonbinary but little sister is not necessarily gendered to me #OH and that’s also why i include alphonse LOL #alphonse is one of those characters that could be any gender to me every group gotthe transgender allegory #<- another common characteristic that applies to this archetype #this is probably the most niche post ive ever made. haha #oh also a lot of them are blonde. ok now we are just getting into arbitrary pattern making mode its probably not interesting #pip speaks

[mantisgodsdomain]

We do think that Riz is a gynandromorph of some description, especially since damselfly sexual dimorphism tends to be pretty distinct and he's displaying a very unconventional morph for a damselfly of any flavor. He would have no goddamned clue what that would mean, of course, and he probably wouldn't care about it if you told him, but he's definitely got something going on there.

#we speak #bug fables #for reference its a Thing for damselflies to have mimicry in the form of Females Who Look Like Males #but its a one-way street. theres no equivalent female-mimic morph for males #which makes riz Extremely Notable since hes displaying a real clear female morph there #and though being transgender would be very much possible for him we prefer this option #especially since it also offers extra reason why he's got such a broad palette compared to his sister and his father #guy is Unusually Big for a male damselfly and just didnt think twice about it. he feels like the sort of guy who just #wouldnt care overly much for self-definition we think. hes got a job to do. do you think he cares about how rare his genes are? #for his sister there is literally no way to tell if shes transfem or just a mimic morph and tbh good for her #we'll. drop some comparison images in a reblog for the irl damselflies #but in general we favor this one both bc it appeals to us more and bc riz just feels like the sort of guy who wouldnt care much abt gender #like. even if he were trans he feels like the sort of guy who would tell like three people about his pronouns #and then just go about his day and either they tell people or they dont and he doesnt particularly care either way #hes got things to do. traps to build. yes hes a guy but what is the point of making a thing out of it when theres poachers to deal with #he feels like the sort of dude to be Cis Guy enough that hes entirely confused as to what ur talking about if u try and misgender him #no clue where youre coming from but youre wrong #anyways back to spear fighting 101 #(note: male and female used here as in the arbitrary sex categories. its the junk. we know its not accurate to being A People) #(its the terminology we've got in the back drawer)

[dennisboobs]

one day i will properly compare dee made a smut film and ptsdee and the differences in the way they handle their very similar subject material but i have shit to do early tomorrow morning so. for now.

do you ever think about how RCG-written episodes, no matter how bad (both character morality-wise and writing-wise) they get, will always have a degree of humanity to them. like. 11x04 has dee doing something that is So incredibly wrong and horrible to dennis. but the reactions to it don't match its intensity. 12x07 again has dee doing something absolutely fucking deranged, and the gang tells her how fucked up it was. there's actually an acknowledgement both from her and from the others that what she did was awful, but her motivation, charlie, dennis, frank and mac's motivations throughout the episode make sense. dee's insecurity is the root of it, she can't handle being someone's "rock bottom", and she needs to prove that it can get worse. 11x04 dee just decides she's going to be a bastard and tell everyone that dennis was raped at 14. we don't know why she does this, and she really has no reason to, other than to be an asshole.

#cw rape mention #cw csa mention #ada speaks #i was like. lowkey sick to my stomach after smut film bc like. jesus christ #i think glenn's acting carried and many scenes in that ep live in my brain rent free #but ptsdee does what smut film did SO much fucking better in every possible way #like yes it had to be established previously to work #but. as an episode i just think smut film is extremely weak on the dennis and dee half of it #iconic episode for frank but jesus christ the contrast between both halves makes me die #rcg has always had this. 'yes these are terrible people but they Are People' vibe #that i think a lot of guest writers misunderstand #its not just a show about horrible people doing horrible things #its about those horrible people being UNAWARE of how horrible they are #they still believe they're Good. they are just unbelievably bad at being good. #like when the guys argue over whether or not they can call the israeli businessman 'the j word' #its about. the arbitrary rules they put in place. oh you cant call him a 'jew' THAT way. that's anti semitic bro. #they are capable of recognizing when something is fucked up and occasionally engage in self reflection #the thing is. theyre selfish. and they do it anyway.

[pinkeoni]

is it okay that i think the position of the funkos are mostly arbitrary

#i say ~mostly because stonathan and dustin are next to each other and like yeah the general groupings are probably there #although i think this story speaks to generality more than anything else #the one where they were filming was not arbitrary since it said they were in fact shotlisting #the most i think they arranged them to send some kind of message is max facing down #but by god lucas being next to mike does NOT mean hes gonna be his relationship counselor LEAVE HIM ALONE!! #stranger things