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breadmecoshy · 5 months

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Why are you looking at me like you care?

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rookdaw · 7 months

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monster X monster hunter

#baldur’s gate #bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #astarion #wyll #I AM SOOOOOO NOT NORMAL ABOUT THESE TWO #IMAGINE BEING PERFECT FOILS OF EACH OTHER #BOTH TURNED INTO MONSTERS AGAINST THEIR WILL #imagining young wyll trying to court astarion and just being so genuine about it #as one of his first loves he wants to do everything right but is still overall (fairly) new to the whole thing #vs astarion who is much more cynical after 200 years of seducing victims #he knows how to play someone’s heartstrings like anlite and is overall very detached from the whole thing only #doing it to make aure wyll wont murder him or something #but then selune forbid it he starts to develoP FEELINGS FOR HIM KSDBBSJAJA #and then just as astarion starts to fall into love wyll almost falls out of it as he realizes astarion was LYING to his face the whole time #about liking him #and then there is DRAMA and a secret slow burn underneath what you THOUGHT was a fast burn #AHEM. anyways.#im gonna draw more of these two cause wyll is soooo slept on #pictured this as early in their meeting/relationship which is why wyll doesnt have horns yet #also *anlite i meant to type *a lute but shaky fingers #rip no tag editing

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cynical-canidae · 3 months

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Dear Haters, Fuck Off 💛

#check replies for transparent <3 #it's perfect for discord sticker #cynical-art #doctor who #the doctor #thirteenth doctor #13th doctor #art #meme #some people cannot handle her autistic swagger

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babbimetal · 2 months

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SHUT. THE. FUCK. UPPP

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stoat-party · 13 days

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“The Lone Wanderer’s actions led to the Brotherhood becoming a tyrannical, overwhelming force on the East Coast” - Tragic. Unexpected. A reminder that the main character is not all-powerful. On the other hand, it doesn’t erase all the good the Lone Wanderer accomplished.

“The Sole Survivor either allowed or helped the Brotherhood to become a weird anti-sex cult that kills all ghouls, sorta enslaves children and kills them on a whim, and spans the continental US. It’s based in Boston BTW.” - Wh-what? In 2/4 possible endings that shouldn’t even be possible. And isn’t the Survivor a paladin/sentinel? You’re telling me they had no say in this? Even Maxson was specifically against the weird cult stuff. In nine years this happened?? I guess that’s… potentially interesting.

“The Courier’s life work exploded offscreen” - NOW YOU’RE JUST MESSING WITH ME TODD

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professorhayforbreath · 3 months

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my blog probably gives the impression that i think the show is bad as a whole, but the reason this show frustrates me so much is because it's definitely NOT 100% bad

like... the movies are bad adaptations. everyone knows it. they have some great moments (an embarrassing amount of which are better than the show lol) but overall they are widely considered blatantly bad adaptations. it's easier to make peace with that

the show, however, is far less consistent and i find it much more difficult to wrap my head around. there are parts that are bad and i'm happy to say that with my chest, but underneath numerous questionable-at-best writing choices, there are glimpses of really, really good stuff. the first few episodes had so much promise—percy burning blue jellybeans and praying to sally, the consensus song. these are brand new additions but they're good, they capture the spirit of the story and characters successfully

and sprinkled throughout the rest of the show are other strong choices! for example in the last episode i really liked that they set the betrayal scene during the fireworks, it created a fantastic ambience. i liked that grover left camp at the same time as percy and annabeth so the three of them got to part ways as a trio on half-blood hill

there are good changes being made, but they're almost all small in the grand scheme of things. in my opinion, the bigger, more consequential things are where they missed the most marks, and that prevented me from fully enjoying the show as a long time book fan

when it comes to writing nothing frustrates me more than wasted potential. mediocre writing is one thing, but mediocre writing that could have clearly been so much better is INFURIATING. i don't dislike the show because i wanted it to be a 1:1 recreation of the book, i dislike it because it's just okay when it could have been great. it so EASILY could have been great and i don't get why it's not. a lot of the writing choices are just baffling in their mediocrity, and sometimes technical weakness, when compared to the well written and effective source material. i wish i could have been a fly on the wall in that writers room when they were making some of these decisions, seriously

the cast is phenomenal. their budget is more than sufficient. they marketed it as a "redemption from the movies", as the adaptation that would finally give fans book accuracy. and the show we got is... fine. it's all right. it's not all that book accurate even though it was advertised as such. there's plenty to like but it comes hand in hand with plenty to dislike. it's only natural for people to be disappointed

i know my critiques can come off as venomous but please never mistake my harshness as hating for the sake of it. i adore the original pjo books so i really wanted to adore the show as well, but unfortunately i can't get there yet. "yet" being the key word because there's still plenty of time for this show to pick up the slack, and for that reason i'm glad it got renewed. i don't have the most faith the writers will listen to the feedback but i'm rooting for them to prove me wrong

#going forward i'm going to try to be more diplomatic about this #i'm a cynic and a hater at heart <3 but even i'm annoyed by how much of a bitch i've been lately lol #pjo show crit #pjo tv crit #pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo show #pjo tv show #pjo adaptation

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bonefall · 5 months

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do you ever worry your own writing might come off as misogynistic though? it seems deceptively easy

When you have anxiety, PTSD, OCD, or multiple of these things, every move you make is something you will self-doubt. It can become endless if you let it, and you can be frozen by absolute indescision.

Embrace the void and reach enlightenment with me; There are many ways to read a story, and no writer can pre-empt every possible interpretation. Not even myself.

If they think my work comes across as misogynistic? Let them. Salty amoebas are often wrong on the internet, but the block button and xkit are beautiful transwomen who are also my friends.

#Honestly tho the existence of terfs is enough to make you realize #That theres some dumb assholes out there who will cynically leverage powerful phrases to try and intimidate you into silence #I think you would need to have some salty coconuts or do an ooo biiiigggg stretch to think BB is misogynistic #This is the melting down about women blog #This is the blog where I regularly take canon books and make them about women instead #I saw a vaguepost about me just wanting one dimensional softgirls #While I was in the middle of showing Fern how to get away with murder by burying two bodies in one grave #And writing her obsessive and unhinged justifications as she digs her claws into her little brother's shoulders desperate to make her-#-senseless violence. The WASTING of her sister's sacrifice. Into something with meaning #If it's wrong to write girliemurder then I don't want to be right <3 #Bone babble

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mangoob · 9 days

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Look! Everything is fine! And they all get along!

They are watching SpongeBob <3

#I love to be delulu <3 #dftm #don’t feed the muse #muse arg #happy meat farms #hmf #alex bale #ramona bynes #jared warrenheim #jared hmf #antonio g #antonio geist #conspiracy carl #carl mayhew #victoria campbell #wesley harold #mark mayhew #the cynical critic #anthony williams

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kosmic-kalamity · 4 months

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more doodles based off of an au idea i doodled here (words r typed out under the cut)

i just might be getting attached to this idea,,,,,,

clay

- he/she

- had returned to branch only a few days before the escape from the tree; the two got separated, and he believes branch to be gone

- [she] went grey for a few years, but recovered over time with viva's help

- seen as the weird hermit troll due to no longer singing + living on the edge of the village

viva

- she/they

- poppy was lost in the escape from the tree, and king peppy never recovered; she had to step up as queen earlier on [in life]

- is constantly on the verge of going grey, but keeps it together for her people

- the snack pack, instead of being their friends, are just cooper's friends; cooper is like a [little brother] to them

#☆scattering stardust☆#trolls #trolls 3 #trolls band together #trolls clay #clay trolls #trolls viva #viva trolls #i wasn't planning to make a trolls au but i can't help it lmaooo #trolls au #also detail i forgot to write down is that clay and viva would already be friends in this au instead of starting off on bad terms #like poppy and branch in the first movie. these two would've had time to bond over losing their families n shit #oh yeah and idk how clear this is but when i call it a roleswap i mean it's both in terms of physical and narrative role #like the physical role swapping is clay n viva being with pop village instead of the putt putt trolls/vice versa w/ branch n poppy #but viva takes branch's cynical role and clay takes poppy's more optimistic one? i guess? i'm not good at explaining #putt pop swap au

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brainworms-all-night-long · 4 months

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An amazing team up to be sure but boy oh boy I sure hope the child which suffered alone for his whole life and turned to villainy because of a percieved betrayal by the one person that called him friend won't be "taught a lesson" by the power of friendship and how great its to be surrounded by allies and at the end discarded because that's what he deserves!!!

#sonic prime #sorry sorry managing my expecations amd also had a bad day so Im a bit cynical #i mean. nine is destroying the shatterverse yes buuuuut #nwm i will keep my rants until jts out #just making a theory to be disprooven of course!!#miles nine prower #sonic the hedgehog #prime sonic #silly brainworms #sonic prime spoilers #sonic prime season 3

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deadcellmate · 4 months

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fwiw I think the reason why BOLAS 2 took so long to release wasn't because it took them two and a half years to write a single new book, but bc they at the very least also outlined a book 3, so I (perhaps harboring under deep delusion) think we're not going to get the same insane wait time for book 3

#cynically I'm positive that the reason why it got the green light for a book 3 is bc this is prob the only book #where a certain subset of the fandom (i.e. Tumblr) might actually consider getting VIP for a sequel release #but anyways yeah that is my prediction #bolas #bolas 2 #blades of light and shadow #playchoices #choices stories you play

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luthienne · 1 year

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Also to comment on the previous asker's tirade: a very interesting thing about Sansa is that she's very genre-aware, but for the wrong genre. Like, in the books, it seems that the world-picture of a great many characters is jaded, cynical, "down-to-earth", "pragmatic". And whoever adopts this view gains power from it. Tyrion, Tywin, Littlefinger, the men of the Watch, the Knights of the Kingsguard, the Hound, the ironmen, Arya... They derive their power from their "awareness" of "how the world works" which revolves around selfishness, fear, greed, death... To an extent, Sansa's fault, to these people, is the fault of her father: thinking she lived in a better world.

She's still the girl raised on courtly love and virtuous knights, and they hate that she doesn't believe in "The Real World". They see her as too stupid to understand that world, or refusing to join it out of selfishness... In both cases denying herself power.

But it's part of what makes her a great character, 1) the tension between how she lives the world and how she wishes the world to be, something which a great many characters have all but given up on 2) the fact that she isn't really interested in power. She plays the game with Littlefinger because there's nothing else to do, but she'd rather be home with her parents at any given time. She wanted to be a queen, but now she wants something more human. And 3) that she's essentially Emma Bovary getting to live the stuff novels are made of, and she doesn't like that either.

But that makes her intolerable to men because she doesn't try to "achieve" stuff, she's not on a mission, she has no goals, not even pleasure. She's just a teenage girl trying to live after losing everything... She's "unproductive" she doesn't respond "optimally" to stuff, she doesn't care about "the grand design" of Littlefinger's schemes. These men think that if they were dropped in the world of Asoiaf they'd become rich warrior-lords from their jadedness, or change history. Sansa not "min/maxing" her life is an insult to them because she scorns their entire value system by existing as a teen girl.

To me, that makes her the most interesting character of them all, because she really is alien from all the other characters. She is watches them caught in the cycles of desire and suffering, ambition and self-destruction, and has yet to participate. Whether she ends up playing or stays removed, the journey to getting there will have been so interesting...

!!!!!! you articulated this so perfectly <3333

#northwest-by-a-train #replies #genuinely i appreciate you all so much for your thoughtfulness in adding to this discussion <333 #i especially loved your point about the way she inhabited the same world as her father. & tragically that world was not the world they #were thrust into. & i do think her continued insistence on believing in gallantry & virtuousness & fairy tale reversals of fate #is part of what makes her so interesting. bc she doesn't succumb to cynicism despite what she survives #basically — exactly what you said <3 #sansa stark defense squad 🤺#asoiaf

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cynical-canidae · 3 months

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She eated soap. Based on this Pin.

#They're very proud of their shirt #he is also proud about eating soap #doctor who #the doctor #thirteenth doctor #art #meme #can I draw non-shitposts #no <3 #cynical-art #13th doctor

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compacflt · 5 months

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So Miles is pitching for a Top Gun: Rooster and I dont think we need a sequel tbh but if we do get a sequel to TGM what would do you think it would look like/you want it to be like?

i don’t care. the storys over.

Let’s do an indy 5/cars 3 situation (gotta keep the IP alive) where mav is in an old persons home with dementia and multiple replaced joints and divorced but somehow the navy still needs him and just him to train the new 20 year old female protégé (maybe amelia for tie-in bonus?) after rooster volunteered to fight in ukraine in 2022 and got shot down and killed a week into the war… And somehow it’s maverick and only maverick who gets behind the yoke to save the day (OMG Tom cruise wins against all odds again)

fun for the whole family and it makes a lot of money 🥳🤑

#how cynical can we make our cash grabs #more or less cynical than tgm already is?#some days i remain unconvinced by tgm #not to be the jaded 20 year old convinced it’s so over all the time #story’s been over since 1986 #this is a hot take i think but mav’s character did not develop at ALL in tgm. he just atoned for past mistakes which is NOT the same as dev #his arc is OVER!#send the dead horse to the glue factory it’s nothing but pulp #(common compacflt hypocrisy) (i also can’t stop writing about these guys)#parroting marisatomay’s assertion that miles teller is a good actor but he does not have movie star juice. he is not gonna get my butt #in the seat for top gun 3 unfortunately. only the airplanes will do that.#top gun maverick #pete maverick mitchell #bradley rooster bradshaw

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swinging-stars-from-satellites · 8 months

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poems for Grac(i)e - (for @imissthembutitwasntadisaster on her birthday)

Maggie Smith, Good Bones // Gerard Way, How It's Going To Be // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // Griff, Vertigo // Elizabeth Bishop, One Art // Taylor Swift, You're On Your Own, Kid // Kim Stafford, At The Student Poetry Reading // Fall Out Boy, Baby Annihilation // @/daisies-on-a-cup // Stephen King, It

#yes this is just a revised and expanded edition of that post I made a while back. I found more poems that stuck with me #you're my escaping the narrative beloved. that narrative will never catch you. we're learning from the ones who've already made it out #which is why baby annihilation is on there even though it's kinda cynical and a bit angsty. it's the fact that it's even on the album #every time I read the student poetry reading poem I think of you gracie. just btw. I love you. happy birthday #<3 #web weaving #oh also one more thing: actually higtb and yoyok are very similar songs to me and I'm emotional about it

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gods-favorite-autistic · 13 days

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Which bad kid is your favorite and which one do you think you’re most like?

Favorite is 100% Riz, his sleeping habits and overachevierness are so me, but most like me is probably Kristen on the whole can’t take things seriously love love lovvvvvving pretty girls and pretty socially awkward front

#although riz’s sleep schedule is just a teensy bit too similar to mine #and there’s definitely an argument to be made for fig a little bit #but kristen is probably most like me overall tbh #would love to see other people’s opinions on it too though!#nothing to be said on the whole religious background front #but definitely the cynicalness of religion and its zealots #thank you for the ask anon! <3 #autism (mads) speaks #mads answers asks #fantasy high #fhjy #dimension 20 #dimension 20 fhjy #d20 #d20 fantasy high #fantasy high junior year

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