#but still i feel like i couldve just skipped this one

[thecoolertails]

she really marries this prick

#my posts #i would treat her right. i would treat her better than this #what. who said that #archie sonic posting #issue 61 #this issue didn't need to exist! the like 2 page karl bollers + steven butler teaser story was the highlight #and nothing happened #mike gallagher returns to the writers chair to give us... barby koala slobbering over an 8 year old (again!) #in a story where we dont actually get to experience like any of it #and while harvo can make some good covers and pin ups... this issue was fucked up looking #i think it was seriously rushed or something #which is like whatever thats not their fault #but still i feel like i couldve just skipped this one

[elisemeitner]

watching house is a trip but hearing the writers early opinions is so funny "he's not autistic he's just an eccentric jerk" "house isn't in love with wilson they're both straight" not only did you write an autistic bisexual you also gave him adhd and complex ptsd.

#💖.txt #yes the man who avoids eye contact for everything except manipulation and cannot sit still despite massive amounts of chronic pain has #zero autism and adhd. also ik the show /kind of/ suggests he has trauma but man do they handle house's childhood trauma terribly #like maybe its just me but i think getting thrown into an ice bath for disobedience is plenty reason to skip ur dads funeral! #i get other characters not taking house at his word bc. his word means jack shit! but i feel like they easily couldve had wilson express #more sympathy about the situation. like he knows house dislikes his dad for A Reason #he just doesnt know what the reason is #but its so funny how many times writers make an autistic character and then WITHIN CANON reference that they have traits associated #with autism and then go no??? theyre just supposed to be weird :) #anyways no one does baiting like house md. and no one ever will they perfected the art

[tinylittlebab]

:/

#ugh. i was supposed to go to the store an hour ago #my sister was out so i cant get there and im v upset cause i couldve been skipping around the garage while they were gone #im glad the main thing i have been coping with for the past 7 years is daydreaming and that i skip around while doing it #exercise tends to be difficult bc im hypermobile and a lit of excercise tends to make it worse which is really really bad #like. no amount of control and feeling good vc im starving myself is worth making my joints even worse #one of my shoulders already likes to partially dislocate just whenever and like. it hurts and sucks and i dont wanna make that worse #well. ill have lots of time to skip around soon bc the person with the car is gna be gone for a few days so the garage will be empty :D #i can use it at night when they are here but its less fun and i burn less calories so i prefer when its empty #i usually use it while both ppl are at work but they dont work friday and saturday so it tends to be bleh those days #idk. im glad that my favorite thing to do also burn calories bc i enjoy it unrelated to my ed so its less stressful #i was debating not eating till 7pm but i have such a headache ao i think ill eat some fruit. idk. my sister knows im relapsing so she might #suggest we eat something while were out. idk how she does it but she usually convinces me to which is good i guess #im not happy abt it bc i wanna starve myself but that is objectively a bad thing to be doing and even if im not happy abt it its still good #when i eat stuff. id be more fussed abt it if i knew how much i weighed but i dont have a scale #part of me is like. i dont wanna restrict until i have a scale bc then i cant watch the numbers go down #i know for a lot of people qhen they first start dieting they see quick drop and then it goes very slow and i wanna see that #im just. i dont even care much abt being skinny rn im mostly looking for the nice feeling i get when i watch the number drop #idk. maybe my sister will catch on to how bleh im doing today and suggest i buy something yummy but hopefully not although i do appreciate #when she does that. it feels nice to have someone care abt you

[a-court-of-moonlight-and-ire]

I finally read again today, chapters 34-39 this time

Usually I read these books in german while on the bus but today I forgot my book, but fortunately, I had some time to go to the library and they had it, but only in english. And since I was sitting at a table with my phone, I was able to take notes live as I read, and I'd like to share those with you rather than doing what I usually do and trying to sum up all of my thoughts a few hours later

Chapter 35:

the fact that NO ONE in the summer court recognized Feyre is absolutely ridiculous, it really is like her accomplishments from the first just vanished, no wonder so many people recommend just skipping ahead to MAF i bet that would make the reading experience wayyyyy less frustrating

shes cursing herself from being so out of shape despite Cassian's 'lessons' and that reminds me, at the start of ACOMAF her internal monologue and other characters kept remarking on how thin and frail she had become and I dont think its come up since she started staying at the NC permanently, great mental health rep girlie

"I let instinct, no doubt granted from Rhys, guide me forward." Come onnnnnnnn, can Feyre not be cool on her own for one (1) moment

"Amarathan did not break that kindness [from before UTM]." no, but Rhys sure did

Once again, Feyre is horrified at her violating Tarquin's mind, rightfully so, and yet she continues to hang out with His Majesty, The King of Violating Minds

Rhys tells Feyre that she "thinks like an Illyrian", which is very strange to me given that Illyrian women are literally not allowed to do anything other than housework and Illyrian men are seemingly all violent misogynists whom Rhys hates

Chapter 36:

"I'd bet they wouldn't have handed over that book" but you didnt ask them though??? Like, they couldve just told Tarquin about their plans, he seems reasonable enough, even if Cresseida and Varian dont agree, he as high lord should be able to override their opinions easily and if that doesnt work out THEN you can go ahead and steal it. Sure, maybe they wouldve trippled security and/or thrown them out of the SC but that should hardly be an obstacle for The Most Powerful Highlord In The History Of Prythian and his eldritch girl best friend

Okay, so Rhysand did pack illyrian leathers for her which is nice, but still, I see no reason why Feyre had to wear dresses for this (and be okay with wearkng dresses when she absolutely wasnt at the start of ACOMAF) when the NC clearly has more feminine fashion involving pants

Theres lead in this vaguely medieval fantasy world?? And theyve had for like centuries?? That seems weird to me I'll have to look into that i think

Okay, so Feyre shapeshifted into Tarquin and she says that she didnt let any part of herself that wasnt Tarquin shine through while she opened the books locks, but those shapeshifting powers are Tamlin's though. That has some very interesting implications but tbh idk if I trust sjm to have thought about it that much

"I am summer; I am sea and sun and green things" that just sounds kinda silly, also I feel like it shouldve been "I am sea and sun and golden sand" given the beach vibes that the Summer Court has

Chapter 37:

note to self: lookup what Leshon Hakodesh is exactly bc theres no way its not some random mythological term that sjm is just dropping into her world [edit: its just the jewish term for 'the Holy Tongue', im not gonna question the implications of that any more than im gonna question the existence of Nyx as a minor goddess or something in this world]

Rhysand doesnt tells anyone jackshit and Cassian is ready to stab Amren if she dares go against him, why are these jokers friends again?

Chapter 38:

granted, its been a while since I read this book and my memory isnt the best, but why exactly does Rhysand need to keep the 'why' of their mission secret? wasnt their mission just to find the cauldron before Hybern does and prevent a war with prythian and the human world?? I guess maybe Rhys doesnt wanna reveal his secret goodness or whatever, but he couldve just had Feyre act as some kind of emissary to the rest of Prythian, like, just have her pretend this is information she found out by herself at the Night Court and have her relay it to the other courts, Feyre has saved them before they have no reason not to listen to her

"'I think Tarquin wanted to be my friend.'" question, is Tarquin/Rhys a thing? Obviously Rhys doesnt deserve Tarquin but idk, there could be something there I think. they have some nice aesthetic contrasts

why would Feyre say stuff like "mother above" when thats not a deity she believed in for most of her life? Like, I already talked about how Feyre clearly had the impulse to pray in ACOTAR she just didnt do it because the names of the mortal gods have been long forgotten, but idk, I feel like her starting to embrace fae religion warrants more exploration. and fae religion in general warrants more exploration tbh

"'Its not the end of the world if you [make a mistake] every now and then'" hello??? Feyre, he made you steal from a man that has been nothing but kind to you for no reason and now theres a bounty on your heads!! And lets not forget that Rhys, Amren and Feyre are all highranking politicians in the night court, youre lucky the SC is too occupied with rebuilding itself to declare war on your asses

I keep saying this, its so infuriating how well Feyre and Rhysand already get along when theyve spent like, 2 or maybe 3 months if Im being very generous, worth of time together aside from their time UTM

god Feysand flirting is the most straight bullshit to ever straight bullshit I feel like im gonna die

Shes thinking about buying RED "lacy things" when that was meant to be a trigger for her, did no one edit this

"a sensual male voice chuckled with midnight laughter" istg the prose is so much worse in english

Feyre having to make herself focus to not look at Rhysand dick after he just had a horrible nightmare has the same energy as Bryce Crescent City thinking about how hot and muscular Hunt is while he just completely shut down because he had to kill someone

"The hole in my chest that was slowly starting to heal over" can you BE more unsubtle

Chapter 39:

Rhysand tattooing the symbol of the nightcourt onto both his knees because he "will bow for no one and nothing but his crown" is actually so funny, i wish he did more cringefail bullshit like that

I think out of all the inner circle relationships, I like Amren and Feyre the best so far and I absolutely do not believe that Cassian cares about Amren at all, much less sees her as family, that guy would kill her in a heartbeat if he could

forgive my aromanticness, but I really dont like the thing that Amren and Varian have going on, cant there be ONE character that doesnt have some stupid romance subplot in this world

Oh, so Mor telling Feyre very little of any specific plans they have is fine, but if someone from the spring court does it theyre the worst person ever

"[Cassian told me] that my family was full of bossy, know-it-all females" oh but hes sooooo much better than all those other illyrians who are all sexist brutes

Why are Beron and Helion the only ones with a last name

"[Strolling through Velaris with Mor] was perhaps my favorite, and the female certainly excelled at finding ways to spend money" are you fucking kidding me, are there actually people who consider a book with this kind of blatant 'women b shopping' bullshit to be feminist?

"'I wanted to protect my people, change the perceptions of the Illyrians, and eliminate the corruption that plagued the land'" wow Rhys and youve done such a good job at all of those things in the 500 years youve been on the throne

"[Tamlin] resented being High Lord — and maybe... maybe that was part of why the court had become what it was" ???? girlie what are you talking about, the spring court is fine right now it doesnt get destroyed until ACOWAR. which is also you fault

so Feyre is once again wearing a chiffon gown for political reasons when she could very well be wearing pants and shes completely fine with that. great

And Mor is wearing red and Feyre is completely unbothered by it, why give her a trigger like that if it just stops mattering the second shes out of the spring court

#hope you like this glimpse into my twisted mind as i read this book #anti acotar #anti sjm #anti acomaf #flames and darkness liveblog

[savefrog]

So the video on the inverted mickey thing goes on and on about how its a story that REALLY exposes Disneys corporate greed.

And then the only example of that the video gives is. A rule that if your coworker dies in a mascot costume you have to like. Keep working next to them?? Weekend at bernies them?? Thats the only example the video gives and its. Not a particularly strong one.

Like ok the set up for the inverted mickey thing, the earliest event in the timeline according to the video is an incident in which a huge crowd of people are crowded into a bomb shelter in the park, begin a mass panic and then vanish suddenly, replaced by a spooky guy.

Honestly I like this as a scary story without having to use gore. I still believe the Spooky Guy addition is just. Too much. You couldve just stopped at everyone vanishing.

But like...how the fuck does this tie back to the supposed message of corporate greed the video is telling me the creepypasta has???

And it wouldve been so easy to write it like that. To talk about how the bunkers were not built to handle the number of people or that the gas masks were made cheaply, etc. There werent enough staff hired to help and there was crushing incident that caused people to begin to panic. So easy.

What this incident does set up is the concept that people believing hard enough in something makes it real. They believed they were going to die, so they did. And this event leaves a strange entity. And thats what has caused the scary mickey to appear.

And this concept is cool! I like the idea of a mass tulpa! Its like fucked up Santa magic! And like you could make it about how people's views of disney have soured over time as the company's greed has fucked over more and more people - people whose houses have been bulldozed, people who worked as cast members, people who were sued. Over time the greed begins to corrupt the "tulpas" once made by a mass belief in "Disney magic"

But the video doesnt give any indication of this at all! Just saying they "randomly got corrupted" . Okay!???!?!???

It makes me feel like the author absolutely was not thinking of making this some deep commentary on Corporate Greed like the video wants me to believe. Either the video skipped over all of the symbolism is keeps saying there is SO MUCH of or the story is bad at creating a powerful parallel......or the video is just coming up with a deep-sounding label to slap onto what was just "oooh i got a cool creepy idea"!!! Which like...I dont have an issue with! It doesnt have to be deep. But dont School Essay Bullshit your youtube video without even providing flimsy evidence 😭

#dullblogging #like i cant judge the creepypasta itself yet bc i havent finished reading it #but i can judge the illusion of it the video has crafted for me #and oh my god the video makes it out to be an absolute nothingfest #while hyping it up for things it just. assumes youll agree with #like yeah no duh disney is greedy #how does this CONNECT to the STORY??? #i dont think it does honestly!

[just-being-leonest]

Live thoughts about season 2 episode 1

I am exhausted mentally so have fun deciphering what I’m saying

Transition from 0;48-0;49 was abrupt

why haven’t we heard about siblings before?

“cease this bitch crying” the curse is unneeded. it doesn’t fit with the kingly vibe of the character. he’s an asshole father yes but hes also supposed to be a regal king. you don’t need a curse there, it breaks character.

the circus bit with just blitz and fizz seems... kinda dumb and nonsensical? maybe something is just flying over my head but that scene feels empty and not in a good way

hold up... so i havent finished the episode yet (at 5;21) but did stolas’s family fucking own blitz? if so that makes stoliz even worse of a ship and even if they didnt that power dynamic is so fucking off. 

the balloon animal scene is... interesting

blitz having an abusive and manipulative father doesn’t excuse the fact he is now an asshole that ignores boundaries and uses people. a great example of this is bojack horseman

why hasn’t it been mentioned that they fucking know each other from childhood before? 

“I’m so good at daddy-ing” the only funny quote from helluva boss

“The living world” so are... demons and imps and shit not alive or smthing?

yeah no hes not a good boss. 

imma be honest, maybe it’s me being aromantic and not understanding love and shit, but if the person i liked as a kid came over and stole a bunch of shit from me, tricking me into helping them, 25 years later i wouldn’t still like that kid.

OKAY DOES STELLA FUCKING LIVE THERE OR NOT

LIKE SERIOUSLY EPISODE SEVEN

STOLAS SAID OCTAVIA WAS AT HER MOTHERS

IT WAS LATE AT NIGHT

WE CAN ASSUME SHE LEFT WITH OCTAVIA

SO DOES STELLA FUCKING LIVE THERE OR N O T

edit: apparently this was a flashback which. wasn’t made clear. at all

edit edit: SHE STILL FUCKING LIVES THERE????

also is no one gonna stop and think that Stella was also forced into this marriage?

like oh no shes an asshole kid

so is blitz

okay nitpick but the glass was empty when she threw it against the window why did it leave a red stain. 13;37

WAIT THIS ISNT PRESENT DAY

TF YOU COULDVE MADE THAT MORE CLEAR

Also the power imbalance here isnt sexy its disgusting

✨manipulation✨ and ✨power imbalance✨

“i barely remember your name” bitch why tf you lusting after him still-

sex repulsed ace just became more sex repulsed 

i skipped through the... i dont want to call it foreplay. ive read better foreplay in smut fanfiction written by virgin 12 year olds.

“thats the sound of a fucking divorce” SO WHY IS SHE TRYING TO KILL HIM

calling anti depressants happy pills is classy. stay classy viv. 

im not listening to the song i have no energy nor time for that bs i have an episode of welcome to demon school iruma-kun that’s begging to be watched after this

DOES

STELLA

FUCKING

LIVE 

THERE

OR

NOT

OKAY THANK YOU FOR THE ANSWER

Can you not kick her out

or just 

idk

fucking

move

YOU HAVENT GOTTEN THE DIVORCE YET

also random thoughth but yes i do consider stella abusive

funny how all the female characters in helluva boss with any sense of story purpose are either dicks (or framed as such in the case of Verosika) or are just there as props to give the male characters some semblance of a character

all in all

episode was confusing

and characters werent v realistic

3/10

#helluva boss critical #helluva boss critique #helluva critique #helluva critical

[oursonwithagirl]

no because the duffers KNEW what they were doing when they made the milkvan make-out scene to can’t fight this feeling by reo speedwagon.

“i can’t fight this feeling any longer, and yet i’m still afraid to let it flow”

what is mike afraid of? his and el’s relationship is super codependent by this time and it’s shown that he’s willing to do the “normal couple things” with her.

“what started out as friendship has grown stronger”

the funny thing is that milkvan’s relationship didn’t even really start out with friendship. it COULDVE, if mike wasn’t egged on by his friends to make it mean something more and didn’t kiss her within the first week of meeting her. you could argue that these two even skipped the friendship phase.

“i only wish i had the strength to let it show”

his affection towards el is blatant at the start of season 3. and even in season 4, he is super showy with the couple things he does. what is mike hiding?

“cause i feel so secure when we’re together, you give my life direction, you make everything so clear”

no, just no. mike’s whole relationship with his girlfriend has him nervous he’s always gonna make the wrong move, in which he has to constantly confide in others in order to get some peace of mind. honestly, him and el’s relationship is a key cause of mike getting his priorities mixed up, not like it makes his life clearer.

“i can’t fight this feeling anymore, i’ve forgotten what i started fighting for”

mike hasn’t been fighting with a feeling for el. i think he’s loved her, at least platonically, for a while now, and he knows this. he’s willing to risk his life for hers. but there hasn’t been any change in this feeling that warrants him to not fight and let it free all of a sudden.

all of these lyrics make sense when you view it as a song about mike’s feelings towards will. it’s hard to think of it otherwise. like they could’ve chosen another 80s love song but they used one about hiding feelings for a friend. if there isn’t a reprise of this song in s5 but for the correct relationship, i’m crawling into the duffer brothers’ walls idc.

#byler #mike wheeler #mike wheeler i know what you are #stranger things #stranger things season 3 #will byers #duffers sleep with one eye open

[narwhalandchill]

ok misc stream thoughts!!!

ANYWAY livestream over nice 30 pulls of aventurine funds for anni!!!! they didnt do anything insane but honestly it was kinda cope to expect them to, ratio for free was clearly a more of a spontaneous move and hes available throughout anniversary anyway so the "another 5*" were.... a little over the top im sorry wjkjwdjkwdjk altho i wouldnt have complained obviously. a free himeko or sth couldve been on theme for the cosmodussy event but eh cant be helped

im actually glad for the skippability of the reruns 😭😭 like i have luocha n jingliu (+ LC for latter) so by skipping acheron for now im gonna have a nice time getting aventurine and most likely his LC (2/3 of his 4* LC selection is so sad tho), love that fucker hope he gets to do proper mayhem in story too. cool death talk please dont actually die yourself for real for real tho i will be sad. like i do think its based of aventurine to pull off a stunt that appears to be what we in the business might call a certified chapter 5 komaeda moment but. ahahaha nooo dont actually die youre such a funny hat man .

(also sick boss form is sick but . bootleg FL im sorry aventurine. they hit perfection already and theyre never fucking topping the galaxy cape cyclops eye beak mask drip i swear JSWJWJDKWJKDWJK but also yes me biased? in favor of that ginger? i could never)

but it seems ill have a solid time getting aventurine and saving up for now??? since i dont think im too interested in robin or boothill either. i was kinda worried topaz' rerun would be in 2.1 for IPC antics with aventurine bc i am kinda curious abt pulling for her but now its gonna be 2.2 at the earliest so. Phew

the stream ran a bit too long lmao but like overall i tend to like the dev discussions so most of it was still neat, altho downside of dev streams is that not knowing chinese i cant just like. afk and listen on headphones and go get water or something 💀💀 and they were definitely dragging stuff out on purpose no way they werent but eh. people will live its just bideo game livestream. and like these folks do hard work on the game they can yap about what they do sometimes its only right lmao

leakers public shaming session was definitely a jumpscare but i do genuinely empathize w shaoji on that one. like. ive always been one for kit + banner leaks first and foremost and story leaks just. i dont care for them much. ive had my share of looking at them occasionally but i definitely agree with the way story leaks either by themselves or when misconstrued and misinterpreted really fucking mess with the intended experience for any given story and how that must feel like shit for the writers. like if story leaks stopped happening altogether id be perfectly content. and thats just ppl who look at story leaks on purpose cuz. im not going to even begin w how like. yes the leaks subreddits and most big leakers do spoiler warnings and keep the story stuff spoilered. but then theres literally the entire rest of the internet where shit gets spread untagged and without warnings the second they are posted anywhere at all and how that fucking ruins peoples experiences. like its 1 thing to click at a spoiler tagged post knowingly and get ur experience messed up with. but when u dont even want to see it its rly fucking bad and i v well understand condemning all story leaks (even those properly flagged) just on that basis alone. but yeah actually felt bad for him there and see where he was coming from for sure, even as a consumer of leaks

ok well that sure was a wall of text. didnt expect to write that much JWJKWJKDDWJK but ya

Anyway. biggest priority is holding strong w skipping acheron as sick as her animations are but def looking forward to her teaser and the animated short. like . even with the black swan dykery. (that was a fucking jumpscare too). i dont need her rn. despite how cool she is 😭😭

& also have to say im v happy they clarified their stance on hi3rd references like. the way theyre going abt it is absolutely how it should be going. hsr by nature is more directly linked to hi3rd like honkai is in the name but its such a dumbass idea (like some fan takes out there....) to want the stories of hsr depend on another games lore. rewarding old fans with easter eggs and tidbits is perfectly fine and im even interested in seeing where they go with acherons obvious raiden situation - especially knowing theyre not about to ruin their own story with "it was hi3rd all along!" (not that i ever rly thought theyd seriously blunder that bad lmao 💀) . so yea thats neat

i think story wise im not gonna say much of my thoughts bc unfortunately i have clicked on like. a leak or four. not the major stuff i dont think but enough that commenting on stuff w some of the things im aware of in the periphery is going to tint stuff . but im still excited to see where things go!!!

AAND OH. ACTUALLY i do have one more thing . so the multiple POV thing being actually implemented is SOOOO good im so fucking happy theyre committing to it being a thing 😭😭😭 like SO many story pitfalls can be avoided by just letting it be that TB doesnt need to be fucking everywhere a major thing happens as the centerpiece of events so we as players can see it. like it gives a way of showing different events and sides of characters in a much more natural manner its sooo good that theyre implementing it already. like this alone has me in such high hopes for the story going forward. like yea theyve branched from our POV before already and in penacony as well but expanding on it even more is 100% the correct way forward

last thing: god they did jingliu so dirty in her concert illustration. WHAT is she wearing 💀💀💀anyway yeah lesgo 2.1 its cool

i lied real last thing: siobhan . siobhan i would do anything---

#i have no clue who to get from the 4* selector also. my hanya is e4 now so no need to get that. yukong e6? but i havent rly built her at all #ig i could still get her but w the way i have sparkle and ruan mei and bronya and the 4* harmonies built already its. ehh #gallagher is the new unit so i might just get him for collection purposes but i dont think ill rly have much use for him #guinaifen eidolons??? shes e2 now and e4 is the good one for energy so it could be a step on the way #ill need to build her for burn dmg for kafka against fire + lightning weak eventually anyway. now shes just debuffer ult spam build #anyway. neat stream now i need to eat the stream was long and then i wrote this djjkdjkwdjkdjkdwkj #rambles #hsr #long post

[kindestegg]

It bothers me seeing some people complain about TOH going a ‘boring’ route for the Collector ‘without moral grayness’ just because they hadn’t been imprisoned for killing anyone or destroying anything (as far as we technically know at least). The clues were already there in 2B that the Collector wasn’t malicious and probably didn’t even hunt Titans to begin with, plus it reminds me of that past fandom trend of ignoring the psychological impact of Belos’ abuse on the Collector, and reducing him to funny murders iPad kid.

Also, it feels like said people are ignoring the fact that, a more sympathetic side to the Collector being necessary here, they still very much did turn people into puppets. Like that was a thing that still happened in this episode. Besides, there arguably is a ‘moral grayness’ to this well-intentioned kid who still ended up betrayed, used, and punished, even by King to an extent, finally snapping in retaliation and betrayal. Idk it just feels like they’re complaining the story didn’t go in one direction for his character VS another, when both routes are equally compelling.

(holds hands with you and we skip over a field of flowers into the sunset together)

but really, you worded this pretty well and in a way i have also been thinking for quite some time!! really, its something ive considered making something about in the future because it fascinates me endlessly: there is just something so strange to me about the fact that to some people recognizing collector is a kid or that he has a complex backstory and is more layered than "sadistic selfish shadowy entity" means "ruining his character"

on the one hand i get it, sometimes people just want a mean old crazy villain who has no qualms in doing whatever just for the hell of it because they want to have fun, and i get it!! i really like villains like that- hell, part of the reason i even got interested on collector when i first saw them in hollow mind was because i love characters like that so much!! the bill cyphers, the discords, the quackerjacks, the dimentios, the jevils, the ecolos, i love all characters like that!!

but like... come edge of the world, hearing luz go "that collector kid" and going "OH SHIT THIS IS A CHILD" was game changing for me because?? you really dont see characters like that often that are also kids?? and idk about you but that was exciting to me! because it explores such an interesting path of like, how do you begin to approach an antagonist that IS so sadistic and self serving but also is STILL growing and still young and has still potential to be good?

old time followers of this blog will KNOW i have already talked all about that though... so what else can i say?

i will say i absolutely agree with you there on the cues being there. while i dont think its fair to say that it was easier before to infer he really didnt do ANYTHING, there were at least a lot of indications carefully laid out to make us empathize with them and understand their situation. like, isnt it interesting that at the start of o'titan, they couldve shown collector saying anything at all, since he thought he was all alone monologuing to himself, and they chose to have him talk about how lonely he was and then plead for king to stay with him? and then, as if to follow up on that, clouds has him doubting whether belos is his friend or not sounding genuinely concerned! we know from these clues that collector is a kid, that he is lonely, that being inside the prison has messed with his mental health, and that belos is unsurprisingly a terrible friend that is making him worry if he will uphold his end of the bargain.

all of these puzzle pieces were put there deliberately, including kings connection to collector, to first let us see a different side of this character and understand him better, and then second to also let king do this and prepare him to be more likely to want to consider collector as someone he could approach, even back in kings tide! because having that previous mental connection allowed him to wonder if collector could be reasoned with, and it worked! he stopped the spell for him! and like, once again, the writers utilize what time they have to quickly establish that the collector would rather play with king and holds no anger towards him or desire to hurt him! this is again, important as an indication that collector is not like we thought!

the whole "murderous ipad kid" started rubbing me the wrong way too, while i am brazilian so the "enzo gabriel" memes were endearing to me in a way, it became really frustrating seeing as how EXTREMELY few people back then seemed interested in exploring the tragedy of a character so young mentally having been stuck in an eternal unchanging prison and how that fucked them up, and how it being BELOS who he was stuck with was even worse! or even, hell, explore the fact he seems to not have wanted to hurt king and how their connection makes them perfect foils to each other and how they could be friends in a better world! but most people just saw him as a one dimensional murderous child (if even a child at all) and either ignored him completely or if not, had him do incredibly uncharacteristically violent and extreme things. and like, yeah, sure, this IS the kid who helped with the draining spell and was excited for people dying, but also like. come on buddy, if thats all there was to him, they wouldnt have tried to establish this other side of him during s2b.

and you are so correct on the puppet thing like!! that is STILL fucked up! even if he isnt physically torturing or hurting people, that is still not a good thing to do and it is terrifying to imagine losing control of your body and even consciousness for god knows how long! and collector doesnt care! he thinks that just because he is playing pretend and that this is how the game is played, that it doesnt matter that he is doing this. that is messed up! and it reminds us that this is still the kid who laughed about people dying, laughed about the grimwalker deaths. him being a sad and lonely kid with a compelling backstory doesnt change that. it just adds to more layers to his character.

i think you are on the nose when you say that it is just because people are disappointed they wanted a type of character and got another. though it is puzzling to me seeing them be unable to admit that they were wrong and that they did miss the cues early on and move on, instead complaining that it "came out of nowhere". i will say i think the BEST argument for them is that his character feels rushed and that it is confusing to add him into the series when he is so similar to so many other characters (caleb, hunter, luz, king, etc), because then yeah, i agree, it is a really odd late minute addition, specially considering he only exists because of the shortening, not in spite of it. and to that i can only say: i think collector wasnt a character added with logic in mind, but rather with pure pathos. dana and the crew wanted a fun out of left field super silly character that was entirely self indulgent and so they added him just for themselves, and as result, he is neither fully well fleshed out nor is he the most unique in terms of metanarrative role.

then again one COULD argue his role is more one of giving king a foil and someone he can further his own arc through, as well as giving better exposition to the history of the titans, but... yknow. ive already talked enough.

#'long post' #sorry it got long i do not know how to summarize myself that well when it comes to this dfgjsdf #but yeah i just! agree! he is a complex character n ppl need to accept that #Commander's answers #toh spoilers

[spiteless-xo]

Im so sorry this ramble is so long but here u go🙁

The absolute terror that came over me when i saw the email notification for the new chapter😭😭😭ok before i read im gonna put my final insights here,, ive literally been scrambling around my house procrastinating reading it bc im TERRIFIED and honestly im so sad its ending,, ive been reading since like february??? I think???Idk atp but i cannot express how much ive loved this story i wish it couldve just continued forever🥲🥲

Ok my predictions are that this will not be a one way path ik tiff is evil and likes to fuck w our feelings😞 i think smt twisted like reader picking eren but eren not picking reader could happen BC HE REALISED HIS SELF WORTH MAYBE😭😭but im not intricate enough to actually use that to decide but i honestly am at a loss i have no clue,, its an honest gamble but i do think eren is endgame??? Help i have no clue😭 but i do remember someone analysing the smells? Vanilla is more home and comfort so like a foundation? And citrus was for summer and things but i was thinking how summer is a temporary thing where people live out crazy activities for the sake of it but the whole thing abt it is that its temporary like we always have to go back HOME to our foundation aka vanilla aka eren????

Thing is ive been eren for endgame since DAYY ONEE i only almost switched up once during the arc with erens confession (idky😞) but other than that ive stayed loyal LMAO idk if im just being delusional tho convincing myself I think she'll end up with eren but

ALSO my other point right

I wanna take this back to tiff bc she IS the author😋 from what ive seen in her tumblr,, a lot of the reader owns resemblance to tiff?? She's mentioned a lot how the readers job is based off her irl experience in an office and some of the readers habits shes claimed to have herself i remember she was saying how people bashing the reader made her think like 'wait thats kind of me tho’ i remember it too vaguely to quote but ANYWAY off the basis that the reader is in some aspects (not all) a projection in some ways?? Its gonna influence,, we ALL know tiff is a strong jean girl😭 we love that and so u'd think jean would be picked BUT in between chapters i saw a few tumblr posts abt her growing liking for eren? I wont deny that she is DEFINITELY still a jean girl but i think for some form of variation in her work bc i think as far as i know she only has one other eren story on her ao3 and so i think her growing crush ok eren may be enough to win her over for just this fic even if jean remains her favourite?? I have like ten million other theories but i need to read the chapter now i will be back😋😋 (im so scared im shitting my pants)

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Im back!! its been like 6 days since i read it but i just didnt have time to write out my reaction after bc i was so fucking immersed i lost track of time and was late to meet up w my friends💀💀💀anyway it was such rollercoaster omd😭 the letters from jean we’re honestly so cute and i think the year time skip made everything all the more realistic in her choice bc she frl needed that break😭 OMD AND THE WAY I WAS PANICKING when that girl came out the elevator istg i thought it was mikasa,, with all generic eren fanfics if theres ever a third party to make the reader jealous theres some unspoken rule to never use mikasa for some reason and i was dying thinking it was gonna be her😭😭 commonly people use historia so when even a mention of eren having a new gf came up my mind shot to historia i swear i was worrying just as much as the reader💀 anyway back to jeans letters i was honestly like getting a bit swayed that i wouldnt even be upset if reader ended up w jean and especially considering how offstandish eren was when reader went to see him at first he was like not following up on anything like he was rushing to see his stupid gf (it was armin🎉🎉🥳) AND THE READER WAS SO CUTE FOR THAT GUNDAM (tysm tiff its such a silly headcanon that eren collects those and builds them i can see it HELP) and i think it was so cute seeing the reader and sasha as bsfs more bc i think there was long periods of time that that relationship w sasha wasnt as strongly shown so its so nice AND OMGOGMOGM LEVI????? U made the dynamic w them so well how he has that small bit of warmth telling her she can work there whenever she needs its the cutest thing ever i love it more than ever and the way levi talks abt petra UGH u made everything so endearing, and istg the reader has never been real until this chapter bc she is so right saying that a bunch of paper doesnt change him bc I KNEW AS SOON AS HE SAID HE NEVER LEFT TITAN AND BECAME BASICALLY HIS DAD that he was not gonna be endgame,, i always had the theory that titan and the kirstein status is a metaphor for the status jean has from the reader bc shes loved him for so long thinking hes someone that hes really not,, jean was painfully aware how he could make any mistake at work and have no punishment similarly to how even if he hurts the reader she will always forgive him so if he couldnt avoid reaping the benefits of his kirstein status then it means he’d continue to take advantage of the reader but thing is this status dissolved when she took that year away from him which is why I appreciate how realistic it all is logic wise,, Eren evidently changed and omg i wanna know abt the pictures on his wall bc when reader was first there there was mention how there were no family pictures or any sign of him really living there but when she came back there were pictures,, i was trying to figure out the meaning but i cant get my finger on it😭 my guess is that he found more purpose in life?? Idk bc that seems so vague and farfetched i was wondering what ur intentions were with that🙆‍♀️ and i had a theory AGES AGO that piecks ‘bad bf’ before jean or smt was zeke?? Bc knowing how zeke was in that gc and stuff like that it sounded like smt was gonna link together? I just think the added details abt piecks past was left unfinished so i was also wondering abt that😋 anyway ugh the ending was also so cute usually i hate when characters dance in fanfics but it was so cute and fitting for the moment like THEM AT THE POINT omg i loved it i love u thank you SO MUCH tiff for an amazing story i hope u have a good day bb❤️❤️❤️

omg thank you for a such a lovely message 🥰💗🥰💗 i’ll hide my response under a cut here because it’s long

reading since february!! omg that’s like the beginning! i think i dropped the first chapter on valentine’s day

“tiff is evil and likes to fuck with our feelings” 💀💀💀 yes.

ugh the smells!!!!! that was my biggest slip up frfr 🙈 i said way too much when i responded to that ask because i was so excited someone asked!! and you guys were all right of course. eren was home and jean was just temporary (like the summer season)

lmao ok literally. i was still a hardcore jean girlie when i started writing tbaw and even after i decided it was gonna end w eren. so throughout writing tbaw….. i literally fell in love w eren jaeger 🙈 and i almost fell out of love w jean!!! tbaw!jean is so awful he almost ruined jean completely for me

hehehe yes yes you’re 100% right w jean. he’s so used to taking advantage and never getting punished (w reader and titan) that he doesn’t really see a point in changing because tbh his life is pretty good?? but then when reader spent time away from him, her blind infatuation w him wore off and then when he tried to pull that same shit again, she’s like nah bro.

ok this is probably not clear at all, but the deal w eren’s apartment is that in the beginning it’s very sanitized and show-homey because he feels distant and detached from his friends/family after the death of his mom and becoming close w zeke. he’s like internally ashamed of the way he’s acting because he knows he’s in the wrong so he’s almost punishing himself by distancing himself from everyone.

and then after a year when he’s changed and the pictures are on the wall, its because hes worked his way out of that hole of self loathing and is happy with the person he is now. so he’s able to feel more comfortable, even in the privacy of his own home, and having his mom “watch over him” in a sense, and cherishing his previous relationship w jean and his ongoing friendship w armin, etc etc.

yes!! pieck’s bad bf was zeke! i was originally going to have her have a bigger role in tbaw to show like how eren’s past behaviour can affect people, since she was a victim of that treatment when she dated zeke. but i scrapped it because it would’ve extended the story so much and also i didn’t really like writing pieck lol

so there are like lil bits and pieces about the pieck/zeke relationship and how the way he treated her makes her seek validation in men, but it’s super underdeveloped in tbaw.

thank you again for such a lovely comment!! i’m glad you enjoyed it 🥰💗

#tiff.ask #tbaw.fic #aot #usuibu

[mikoran]

ok @theonebyler made some posts about season three and its inspired me to complain about the season because oh lordddd

fair warning this is very disorganized and long and im terrible at expressing my thoughts in words but i need to rant (i said some of this stuff in the tags when i reblogged one of the posts but shhhh)

also this is all my opinion!! if you have a different perspective, thats fine, and im open to other opinions and interpretations

now i will give season three some credit, it wasnt totally unwatchable and upon my most recent rewatch (where i didnt skip season three for once since i wanted a refresher), i did find that it wasnt as bad as i remembered and i could in fact watch it and be entertained, but god do i still have a plethora of problems with it

first and foremost, milkvan. for the first two seasons i thought they were cute, yknow little crushes and sweet moments, but god did season three ruin any chance i had of ever liking them. they made out and argued and thats literally it. it was so obnoxious and uncomfortable half the time and they didnt even properly resolve the argument. sure, we got that shit with the m&ms, and even though mike explained himself earlier during the sauna test, he still deflected blame and that shit lasted for half the season. they never properly talked it through and they just sorta threw a band aid on the root of the problem (which did plant the seeds for season four, but it was still unsatisfying to watch since it was treated like a proper conflict resolution). mike was just generally unbearable the whole time too, and he was just a dick who deflected blame and was totally different from the sweet kid we knew the seasons before. i love mike, but thats only if i just straight up ignore some of the stuff in season three

while, sure, some of mikes behavior could be reasoned by internalized homophobia and a variety of other issues hes got, that doesnt excuse his shit about "the female species" and the fact that, even if he didnt like el romantically, he can still, yknow, talk to her. i know hes a kid and all but the way they treated it this season was so unbearable

plus theres the stuff with mike and max fighting over els independency. specifically the aspect of her powers, which just kinda comes out of nowhere. like them having mike be all worried about her overexerting herself and blurting out that he loves her feels like damage control since max was being wayyyy too right about el being her own person aside from mike for the audience to stay on milkvans side. its like they needed to find some kinda last minute way to get the audience to still think milkvan was good in some way, if that makes sense. and while i do think that el and mike are going to break up and that her independency is in fact where its going, the way they handled this specific part felt so... weird

staying on the trend of annoying characterization, hopper. he felt like a totally different person and like a caricature of himself. he was a jealous man child the whole time and him getting jealous over every man joyce talked to got old reallyyyy quickly. plus the whole him being an overprotective "stay away from my daughter" kinda dad since, while i understand his behavior, its very stereotypical and you know damn well him getting upset with mike wouldnt have happened so aggressively and be framed so comedically if it was a mother with her sons girlfriend. i love hopper too but its like even his mannerisms and shit changed that season and he just was not himself

lucas also got on my nerves, since he was constantly promoting mikes shitty behavior, and he was also just sorta sidelined a lot of the season. he wasnt really lucas, he was more so some guy who just sorta propped up mike the whole time and didnt really have another purpose. we couldve gotten more elaboration on lumax or something instead, but they instead were practically just were nonexistent most of the season

speaking of nonexistent, will was sidelined like the entire season. he was a walking upside down alarm and had like a few moments where he came up with an idea but other than that, nothing. he was just sorta there and didnt do many meaningful things despite his importance to the supernatural shit going on since they decided to focus on annoying relationship drama for half the season instead of supernatural things being as prevalent

jancy also kinda annoyed me with the needless drama they had, drama that never even got properly resolved. when they have that talk in the elevator, jonathan admits that nancy was right about the rats, but that wasnt the root of the problem. the main argument they had was over how nancy didnt get how important the job was for jonathan since he came from a poorer family, and how jonathan didnt get how hard nancy had it dealing with the misogyny of her coworkers. the main fight was never about the rats and if the story was real or not, and they never properly address the actual problem. and having a moment where they actually talked and understood each other wouldve been great but we never got that

in hind sight we really never got many proper resolutions to conflicts, which could be argued to have snowballed into problems we see in season four, but its still annoying how they were handled and have yet to be explicitly addressed

the whole thing with karen and billy. no further elaboration needed.

billy getting redeemed in a way. yeah yeah he did all his shitty behavior cuz his dad sucks and he was separated from his mom, but thats not an excuse for continuing the cycle of abuse or the racism. billy sucks and i wish they never had him die as a hero

the main dynamics of the party get like permenantly skewed this season. instead of keeping the core party together and showing how close they are, we have dustin separated the whole time and all the focus with the rest of the party being relationship drama and only damaging their friendships. id love to see some more inner party dynamics shown but theyve gotten too caught up on other dynamics to ever elaborate or explore others and it makes you realize that some characters have hardly even interacted. like i cant think of a single time dustin and will have interacted one on one despite the party supposedly being so close

the stuff with the main supernatural plotline was really... weird. like that stuff with the chemicals and the use of rats felt so out of nowhere and was kinda forgettable. and they never really expanded on them??? or like anything the supernatural plotline did that season?? they were just there and then stopped mattering or having much importance despite the questions they raise. the stuff in seasons two and four are all a sort of "ohhh that makes sense" and connect very clearly but... why rats?? whered this shit about chemicals come from?? what???

while i do love the vibe of the season, it doesnt work very well with the context its got of the first two seasons. its such a stark contrast and drastic shift in tone that it feels like a totally different show and it sticks out like a sore thumb and it bothers me a lot. the season was much more comedic and lighthearted for a good deal of it compared to other seasons, and while i cant complain about something being funny, it just doesnt work as well with the type of show it is

they never really brought up a lot of important plot points from the first two seasons this time around. like i think els mom came up once closer to the end of it, and i think we see barbs picture like once in the last episode, but otherwise they just... stop being important. stuff like that makes the whole season feel disconnected from everything else since it just doesnt flow the same way that seasons one and two did

i think that should be everything (though chances are ive missed stuff) but tldr the humor and a bunch of shit felt so like straight and stereotype based, a lot of the conflict was handled weird, and compared to how seasons two and four flow it feels less like a continuation of previous seasons and more like some tacked on addition with shit thrown in that doesnt make much sense

thanks for reading im going to bed now

#stranger things #stranger things 3 #st 3 #every time someone says season three is their favorite im like #??? #are we watching the same show?? #the duffers are great writers but couldnt they have tried a little harder on this one please #i feel like i need to apologize for this whole post just cuz of how long it is #and how i dont feel like my points made sense but oh welllll #stranger things 2 #st 2 #stranger things 4 #st 4 #was i too mean with this #i feel like im being mean #and dont get me wrong i did like stuff this season #but mannnn it makes it hard #anti mileven

[cowboy-robooty]

Let me show you the world of my hell hole of a playlist

Obviously I need to share the good word of the Sonic Vocal Tracks like dude i will make you sit and listen to all of them if i have to but my personal favorites are “This Machine” from Sonic Heroes, “Find Your Flame” and “Im Here” from Sonic Frontiers, “Live & Learn” from Sonic Adventure 2 and “I Am… All of Me” from Shadow the Hedgehog. They are a little more metal/rock ish sorry if my music terms are off but yeah you will be screaming you will be so pumped

Also literally just any track from any Lupin III media is so fucking good omfg. So Jazzy and upbeat you will feel so radical. My favorite intros are from Part 2 and also “Superhero” is a transcending experience I lives in my head rent free. Yuhi Ohno’s work is honestly just so good just skip immediately to his entire discography

Ok im sorry im a hardcore MARINA and Girls Love Shoes fan its just who i am inside. I need to come clean. Girls Love Shoes’ “Supamedicine” is my godsend its my holy grail. MARINA always drops bangers the people know her not much to say than that.

Also some random out of pocket ones. Any minecraft parody ever, any pop song from the 2000’s, animation meme songs that haunt you for life, the living tombstone and specifically She Wolf but nightcore. Just night/daycore / slowed down/speed up just to get a little cray cray.

Alot of my own music taste is just a bunch of Punk Rock and other random artists scattered about, sorry if you already listen to these guys </3 My entire playlist is a tonal nightmare its older than most average playlists. Been going strong since like 7th grade

DONT WORRY LOL MY PLAYLIST IS AIDS TOO ive had it since i got my first phone in 6th grade because i like to put all the songs i like ever in one playlist and hit shuffle on that ^_^

SONIC SHIT: I LIKED THIS. ROBOOTY WAS A FAN OHHH YESSS... DONT WORRY IDK HOW MUSIC TERMS WORK EITHER LOL BUT THIS IS GOOD. **nods head** ITS LOUD ITS GOT A VERY FULL SOUND I LIKE IT A LOT YESS!!!

LUPIN SHIT: DUDEEE I FUCKING LOVE THE LUPIN SOUNDTRACKS TOO!!! I FUCKING LOVE JAZZY SHIT ITS SO GOOD ITS SO FIRE I LOVE IT I LOVEEE WHAT LUPIN IS IN I ALWAYS DO BE PLAYING THAT LUPIN OPENING ON TAIKO!!!! I need to check out yuhi ohnos discography properly.... i always am slacking ok

GIRLS LOVE SHOES: i listened to supamedicine and it was pretty good! it was pleasant i was like **nods head** if my buddy put it on i wouldnt go "well... if you wanted to go to teen sex cove you couldve just asked 😏" but id be like **nods head in approval** and then continue talking about how my soundcloud almost got deleted for reposting yaoi christmas carols. anyways secret.. im actually not really a marina fan. like primmadonna and oh no is okay theyre like 5/10 to me but idk i just aint into her shit

RANDOM SHIT: IM NGL I DIDNT LISTEN TO A LOT OF MINECRAFT PARODIES BECAUSE THEY WERE PARODIES OF POP MUSIC AT THE TIME AND I HATTTTTEEDD POP MUSIC LOL. i think some are ok like dont mine at night but i cant really think of any others i liked. i still am not really big on modern pop in fact i kind of hate like a lot of it lol im a hater by birth 💔 I ALSO... **says this on the cross** HAVE HATED ANIMATION MEMES FROM THE MOMENT I WAS BORN TOO. i used to get so mad id be like THATS NOT A MEME!!!! THATS A SHITTY LOOPED GIF THAT HAS NO JOKES AT ALL!!!!! idk i never was an animation meme kid.... i always looked up to newgrounds animation and like people who made full mv parodies of vocaloid mvs or cola shake dance yknow but i liked those because i think theyre different from animation memes. its a completely different vibe and i think that comparing shit like burihamachi or the pappara baby boy thing to animation memes is like comparing manga and comics. theyre the same thing in principal but COMPLETELY different vibe yknow? anyways yeah i was a hater and refused to watch them in my lifetime... 💔💔💔 I LIKE THE LIVING TOMBSTONE THOUGH I LOVEE THE SONG CATS OUGHHH THATS SO GOOD.... i never listened to them a lot i only know like 3 songs lol so erm i dont consider myself a living tombstone fanboy since i think id be considered a poser 💔 LOOK IVE ALWAYS LIVED UNDER A ROCK IM ALWAYS SEVENTEEN YEARS LATE TO EVERY PARTY EVER!!! I NEVER EVEN LIKED FNAF I WAS INTO THE NIGHTGUARDS BUT DIDNT CARE ABOUT THE GAME THE LORE THE ANIMATRONICS I LITERALLY DID NOT GIVE A FUCK I NEVER WATCHED A SINGLE MATPAT VIDEO OR LISTENING TO ANY FNAF SONGS!! i was an asdf movie and newgrounds + niconico douga kid ermmmmm anybody like danjo danjo? anyways i do like nightcore! i love listening to nightcore of 80s songs ohh yes... i only listen to out of touch nightcore 😏😏😏

sorry for long tangents but yknow how robooty empire is. THE KING LOVES TO SPEAK! THANK YOU FOR THESE RECS ESPECIALLY THE SONIC SHIT I BE LIKE OHHH ME LIKEY 😍

#ask

[moonlitlex]

i AM very pumped about david and catherine being in the 60th dont get me wrong this is the first time i've been excited about dw in years.

however

comma

it should've been paul. they should've had paul mcgann as the doctor. they couldnt get jodie or ncuti so they should've gotten paul. come on. that dude got one movie and like 5 minutes of cameo of screentime. he deserves more screentime. they honestly didn't even need to do the backwards regeneration thing. they could've just done a thing where we randomly skip back in time to watch some never before seen 8th doctor adventures. wouldn't be that weird. and i want paul to have more screentime.

seriously like eight is SO fun and funny and like paul literally still does dw stuff w big finish and i really feel like he'd be down for filming a couple of specials and like he deserves it. he has SUCH little screentime and genuinely as someone who enjoyed the movie. thats a terrible movie. you couldve given eight good writing.

#alexis.exe #dw #doctor who 60th anniversary

[autumndragons]

i adore totk it skyrocketed to one of my favourite games very quickly and its the only thing thats been keeping me sane this last week but man that game is a full time job. like im sure when i played skyrim for the very first time i had a similar "my god, there is so many things to do" feeling but in totk it feels a lot more put together than skyrim? like you could skip half or more of the content in skyrim and not really lose much of the story/lore because its all pretty self contained for each part, but in totk a lot of stuff comes back to a central story in one way or another. like i took a break from the yiga clan stuff (theyre also gathering zonaite etc and have a bunch of lore in that area) after getting my fifth battery to very briefly do part of the 'main quest' (zoras) and then got distracted looking for the sky tablets (backstory on the old kingdom) and like. none of these things are completely self contained?? they all give lore for the grander setting and the main story! and im sure its designed that you can just go right through the main story, and maybe also get the tears, and be fine, but. i want the worldbuilding!! i LOVE the worldbuilding in botw/totk!

like dont get me wrong im having a great time flying my little bird plane from sky island to sky island hunting down the tablets now, but then im like. i need to finish the yiga thing. josha wanted me to find something around there too. sidon needs my help. i was supposed to get something from robbie's old lab. oh that typhlo ruins quest is probably updated now. oh theres a dragon tear- its not the next one i need and i should do these in order i'll come back later. i forgot i still have the last great faerie to unlock. ive used every single map pin and i dont remember what any of them are. is this one on the surface or in the sky? oh hey a new chasm-

idk. its just a lot. im having a great time but im like 58 hours in and ive done one (1) sage but i also have 14 hearts, an extra stamina wheel, and five batteries? lmao

totk is everything i couldve wanted and thats both a blessing and a curse

#txts #totk spoilers #just in case #i started like two weeks ago and im already over half my time in botw #tbh i mightve ended up spending more time on botw but i mostly got back into it because i wanted to play totk #i only got like three of the memories but they sucked to find #the tears are a much better method of telling the story like that #anyway i keep having to tear myself away from the depths LOL #i fucking LOVE THE DEPTHS MAN #its such a foreign experience they did SUCH a good job with it #also the miners helmet gives me species euphoria #anyway im going to unpause the game now and go get that stone tablet ive been staring at on the map the whole time typing this lol

[regalityandcoffee]

We Were Robbed: The Biggest Missed Potential of the Nexus Invasion

Aka Regal should've been on team WWE with Bret. It's rambling time babies!!!!

Aight. Let me give you a recap of the beginning of the invasion because holy shit is this story is convoluted and because holy shit it's been twelve years.

Heres a good full Nexus video.

The year is 2010, right? It's a wild ass time. Bret Hart is Raw GM (Yeah, bet you didn't remember that either, huh?) Season one of NXT finishes up.

I just think he's neat ♡

Okay, Now. The day is June 7th, 2010 on RAW the main event. Cena vs. Punk for the WWE championship. It's going well, it's vibing, the fans are going coo-coo bananas (props if you get that reference).

And then, it happens. IT HAPPENS. Wade Barret, NXT season one winner comes down the ramp, spectating until the other members creep down.

And they beat the kentucky fried fuck outta EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING. Cena, Punk, Jerry, they tear up the ring they hurt announcers ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE.

It's the next week, June 14th. Bret fires Wade Barret.

And later the same night, Cena comes out, and confronts the Nexus on the mic. In the ring. Alone. And of course, they come outta the crowd, circling the arena like sharks. It looks like he's fucked. But guess what? Lawler, yes freaking Jerry "the King" Lawler, slides in to back him up! And then Evan Bourne, And then....WILLIAM REGAL????

THERE HE IS THERE HE IS

Yup! Regal was apart of the locker room team that went to help Cena!

But wait? Why is he defending Cena? isn't he a heel? Yes! At this time, it was months after ECW ended and his run as Skip Sheffield's PRo on NXT ended so he returned to RAW as a heel, still chilling with Vlad, former Ruthless Roundtable member. He even backs up big time fellow heel the Miz against the Hart Dynasty, which by the way, is pretty much the only time we ever see William Regal and Bret Hart in the same Arena at the same time. (I know. I know.)

Okay. So. Crazy. What happens after that?

Nothing. Jack squat. Well, actually, not exactly nothing. You see, the Nexus attacked both Bret Hart and V*nce McMahon, leaving the show without an authority figure. So guess who replaces them?

The fucking anonymous GM. Yup. This is where it all started.

Okay, so where does Regal come in again? That's the sad part. He doesn't. You think it would make sense for at least half of the team that later combats the Nexus along with Cena and a returning Bret at Summerslam would be composed of the Pros from that season, right?

The Season one Line Up

Well.... We did kind of get that.

But, uh, Stuff happened.

But hear me out. here's my idea: Regal should have been on team WWE.

We could've finally had Bret and Will in an actual match together!Think about it. This could have led to a face turn before he went to NXT. He can still be a villain! There are faces who do scummy stuff (*cough* Edge *cough*) but how interesting would have been for Regal, just coming out of ECW, to keep up the momentum after helping Cena and decides that since Skip was his pro, he feels weirdly responsible? Why else would he have helped Cena? They don't particularly like each other.

It could also be respect for Bret. either way, the more he helps, gradually...he could realize he liked being apart of a team. For once he's not the common enemy people are fighting against.

Anyway, injuries happen, yada yada, this is our team.

Now don't get me wrong, the match still SLAPPED.

But imagine Will confronting J*richo who at first didn't care about any of this at ALL.

"In case you've forgotten, Barrett was your rookie, and now he's leading the group destroying our show! Don't you feel even a tad bit responsible?

"Nope."

"Well, I do."

He joins forces with Cena, and then a returning Bret. Along with the members of the final team we got at Summerslam.

A REGAL FACE TURN. BRET AND WILL ON THE SAME TEAM. WE COULDVE HAD IT ALL FOLKS.

TLDR: The Nexus invasion fucked but would've fucked more if Regal was a part of it and we finally got him and Bret in a ring together.

....Okay Bye ♡♡♡♡♡♡

#william regal #bret hart #the nexus #history lessons #fantasy booking

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I think a poll is probably the easiest way to do it, I think you made the right call, and feel free to skip this one if it is not a conversation you want to poke at... but my take on the Doctor Who ship situation is that it's a matter of degree? Like a show like "you me her" is explicitly Canon polycule, three+ people in a relationship ongoing, all of them in relationship with each other... And then you have leverage which is that except that one arm of the triangle isn't explicit on screen but with like coding in place and fandom sentiment and word of creator etc...

So if the ship is a like long-term focal point of the piece of media, that seems easier to assess it as a polycule...

But then when you have a situation like Doctor Who or I'm sure other pieces of media on this list where the attraction between the participants is either Canon or heavily coded etc But you do not get to see them function very often all three together... Often because of the genre of the piece of media? Does that make them not count as the polycule for this purpose then? Because we don't see that potential relationship whether it's coded or explicit come to fruition?

I'm not someone who has ever watched much Doctor Who, so I don't know for how long Jack and Rose and the doctor travel together... Just that I know that Jack has kissed both of them, which is about as explicit as mamy pieces of media can hope to get... So is the question then like does it count if we have evidence that the attraction is reciprocated on the doctor's end? Or is it an issue of duration/ completion/ time spent in relationship since it's just, assuming it is just like a quick moment, the clip I think I've seen.

Basically, do we need to see the polycule function on screen (or on the page etc) together at the same time for a certain duration? Or is it just a question of whether all members of the polycule wanted to be in the polycule whether or not it was able to happen?

its not really about screentime, and the doctor doesnt need to reciprocate the feelings because if only rose does it could be still be a V relationship. the thing is idk anything about either of them being interested in jack, i kno2 jack kissed them so its obvious he at least is polyam and likes them, and ppl said smth about a dance scene being an analogy for sex which i dont rlly get cause i never saw the scene (i also dont watch dw)

so my confusion is mostly like, is it hinted in canon that either 9 or rose feel the same way? or does it look like its one sided from jack? thats a genuine question because i like i said i havent watched doctor who and the explanation for the why its implied canon made me confused. it sounds one sided, but i couldve misunderstood! which is why im asking you all

still cant see results so idk how its going but thank u anyone whos voting on that

#polyasks