#how fucking genius is that

[linusbenjamin]

We're perfect for each other. You're gonna figure that out someday.

#person of interest #poiedit #poi spoilers #tvedit #root #samantha groves #sameen shaw #scifiedit #nikolatexla #LAST EPISODE WAS TOTALLY INSANE #i was truly shocked like i paused the video and just looked at the screen for a while because what the fuck #BTW THE FACT THAT THIS WAS HOW THE MACHINE IMAGINED THEY WOULD BE??? SIMULATED THEM AS LOVERS?? WTF #no way this show aired in 2014 #i enjoyed every second of this episode especially the scene where the machine realized time ran out so she had to simplify the dialogues 💀 #pure genius

[katabay]

original thief series basso & garrett :)

ngl, it's about quality over quantity for me. an npc can have a total of three minutes of screen time, but if they have a cool name, they can live rent free in my head and I'll spend several hours trying to decipher drawable features from a blurry screenshot of pixels

there is a vague hint of a story here, and that's because every time I try to play thi4f, I get incredibly frustrated with how Not Fun the game play is. like, is the story good? well. but it has a PLAGUE. that should've given it instant 'I'll replay this once a year' status in my heart, but the game play sucks so bad that I've never finished it. I can't believe Not Fun gameplay beat out my obsession with narrative plagues.

anyway, the idea is basically if the original era had a game with a plague centric narrative and some other stuff I liked out of thi4f thrown into a narrative blender, with a heavy dash of horror thrown in because some parts of the thief games were scarier to me than entire dedicated horror genre games.

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app

#if i had a laptop and the skillset i would attempt a story mod because the thief modders who create whole mission stories #are GENIUS and also somewhat terrifying. love them! xoxox #anyway im actually kind of obsessed with parts of thi4f but its also like. not at that sweet spot of almost good enough to be fun #to talk about. which. for the record. has not stopped me from talking about it at length to people #the city itself actually fucking fascinates me. its almost alive and im SO mad that not a single part of that game is actually terrifying #it should be gnarlier and instead it feels a bit like it doesn't quite want to be trapped in the story it has to tell? #but between the level that has the bodies on the meathooks #and the scene with the bodies hanging from the rafters or whatever that was and garrett living in a clock tower #because the game is very much ALMOST about changing times and authoritarian violence and capitalism #(like. by virtue of how the story sort of spins out i think it misses it's mark on a lot of stuff here #in the sense that i dont feel like it actually wants to tell that story. it wants to. go in a different direction. or at least walk on top #of those themes instead of through it) #ANYWAY between all of those things. it does kind of live in my head rent free. they did create a compelling setting #SHAME THEY DIDNT WANT TO ACTUALLY EAT ANY OF IT #unrelated but i would've given thi4f a 10/10 if they kept garrett's fucking nail polish from the concept art. cowards. unforgivable #thief the dark project #i still have no idea how to tag the game series as a whole RIP #sorry for the dedicated dark project fans. if you know what the general series tag is. please let me know #garrett thief #basso thief

[whaliiwatching]

dumbasses ft daughter in the modern era

#spider man: across the spider verse #spider punk #spider noir #hobie brown #noirpunk #and #DING DING #its her everybody its the star of the show #she's such a little nightmare cat #peter's so inordinately fond of her it's stupid <3 #(this is how all cat owners are) #me posting an HOUR EARLY??? no way #this one's a bit bland but i like the cleanness i guess #and look this time i remembered my fucking watermark #peter's tiny speech bubbles are supposed to wink at silent movie caps #thanks ken! im stealing your genius #bear peter in a goth fit >>>>>>>> #technically he's supposed to be in color here but trust me nobody wants to see that shit lol

[vypridae]

ok but hear me out here . demiromantic pansexual valentino, and biromantic demisexual vox . i rest my fucking case

#GUYS IM A FUCKING GENIUS #iwas just thinking to myself how i saw this tt about how theres not a lot of aro allosexual representation #and i was like HOW CAN I MAKE EVERY ONE OF MY HCS INTO EXACTLY THIS REPRESENTATION #and thus this idea popped into my head #xanchats #staticmoth #valentino #vox #hazbin hotel #(this was the hc i was talking about in my latest post. am i right or am i right) #val could also be grayrom inhavent decided exactly yet #or sometehing else cuz theres so many labels . need to look them all up and figure out my specific hcs 🫶🫶🫶

[andiwriteordie]

*clears throat* get ready for the most ridiculous thing i’ve ever conceptualized

not to get all up in my holly wheeler bullshit again but i’m gonna need you to imagine some kind of chaotic world in which holly in the 1990s watches home alone when her big brother and his boyfriend are home on thanksgiving break 

and then something happens where holly is home alone while everyone is out at work or doing something else and then things... get really strange.

there’s a faceless monster outside her window, and suddenly all the phones are not working, and the lights are super fucked up, and the last time holly remembers seeing anything this insane was when she was really little? and there was that weird wall at will’s home? or the trees were moving that one fourth of july?

but holly’s stuck. she can’t go outside or get a hold of anyone to help her.

so what does holly do?

she pulls a kevin mcallister.

and holly home alones the fuck out of this demogorgon.

#holly wheeler #byler #tagging this byler because god knows you are my people #byler comes home before mike's parents and holly deadass has the demogorgon like #half dead on the ground #number one they're like what the fuck we thought we dealt with this shit #number two how the FUCK did holly do this #holly is an evil little genius and i stand by it!

[swigllier]

sometimes i go crazy thinking about zolu and seeing people analyze them makes it worse and i need to remind myself to breathe

#zolu #breathe girl #there’s jsut so much fucking chemistry between them and AHSHDJJFKALDHKAJSB 😄 #i’m going insane #one piece #why is oda lowkey a genius???? #idk how ppl think zosan is better than zolu like #sorry anyways #bububu #they changed my brain chemistry #i’m not okay #i just cant #goodnight

[mister-celery]

@seemoreseymoursbay week day 2: romantic ship!! (so sorry for being late to these prompts omg)

honestly i was floored when i found out this was a thing people ship its so funny to me! enemies to lovers but make it nine year olds?? thats hilarious dude im so here for it

#also the concept of chloe lowkey having a crush on louise and being so mad about it they are mortal enemies #she messed with rudy to get louise’s attention #just imagine dude #funniest thing ive ever seen #celery art tag #and imagine they GOT TOGETHER???? #it would be like when gene dated courtney and tina + louise freaked the fuck out #if gene and tina ever found out louise and chloe were a thing they would DROP DEAD #and same honestly #comedy genius #smsw romantic #smsw #bobs burgers #louise belcher #chloe barbash #chlouise #? #wtf is their ship name #chlouise sounds right #how obscure #i also dont have a bobs burgers oc so i migjt skip to day 4 and be actually caught up #idk tho

[symptomofgout]

the narrative of kaveh being an idiot is so baffling to me because he is, quite literally, canonically considered a genius…? why is the popular consensus “6000 IQ alhaitham and his lovably stupid roommate kaveh” when every npc commenting on kaveh refers to his intellect & talent, the literal god of wisdom says kaveh has an “almost-perfect grasp of what it truly means for sumeru to be a nation of wisdom” (whereas she questions alhaitham’s wisdom in her line about him), and alhaitham’s own story profile calls kaveh a genius multiple times??? like the whole point is that he’s alhaitham’s intellectual equal despite having entirely separate worldviews and demeanors, which frustrates alhaitham to no end — ‘how can someone so smart do all of these things that, to me, are so evidently stupid?’ the takeaway from their dynamic should NOT be kaveh is dumb, but rather that empathy and emotion aren’t actually the opposites of logic and intelligence, but sadly both alhaitham and the realm of academia as a whole are too blinded by their own definitions of logic to fully realize that.

tl;dr kaveh is not dumb by any standards and i will prove it

(under the cut: quotes/screenshots/etc proving this + more. please spread the gospel and dispel ignorance. amen)

some npc voicelines (there are more but i’m lazy):

these are pretty self-explanatory — kaveh is a widely-renowned scholar, architect, and engineer throughout sumeru. he graduated from the akademiya with flying colors, students were desperate to take his classes, etc.

nahida’s voicelines:

both are intelligent but only one is wise: kaveh. alhaitham is too restricted by his narrow definition of wisdom (read: what he deems ‘logical’) to look beyond himself and grasp that there’s more to intellect and knowledge than pure cold rationality. he can’t comprehend that empathy and intellect aren’t fundamentally incompatible — in fact, they’re best when put hand in hand. kaveh is one of the few scholars capable of valuing emotions, empathy, and artistic endeavors, while the rest of the akademiya closes themselves off to that entire realm of knowledge from the get-go. this is what makes kaveh uniquely wise, and what alhaitham lacks. until you understand that emotions and logic can and should coexist, you won’t be successful in the true pursuit of knowledge.

last but not least:

alhaitham’s profile (worth noting that profile stories are pretty much the most reliable source of information on characters’ true beliefs and opinions — their voicelines are still them putting on acts in front of the traveler, but these stories are told from the perspective of an omniscient narrator and are likely closer to the truth):

“two geniuses.” and even after their falling out, “neither of them will deny the other party’s exceptional brilliance” — meaning alhaitham considers kaveh to be exceptionally brilliant. point blank. in the text bro

hilarious line — it’s basically alhaitham saying he doesn’t understand how someone with kaveh’s talent and intellect could have a personality/worldview so different from haitham’s. ‘how can someone that smart be so annoying!!!!!’ and ofc by values we know it’s referring to kaveh’s idealism, empathy, and affinity for the arts

alhaitham considers kaveh to be “another genius,” someone who is so much his intellectual equal that he’s “an excellent mirror” for alhaitham. it’s like an experiment for him — the initial question is “how can someone as smart as me care about all of these things i’ve always believed to be worthless,” the subjects are kaveh and alhaitham, the controlled variable is their intellect. because their intellect is the same, alhaitham is able to study their differences (can’t attribute said differences to varying intellect). alhaitham would never say it out loud — and luckily he doesn’t need to bc his character story tells us — but he’s deeply fascinated by kaveh bc kaveh’s very existence is a threat to haitham’s worldview, & he’s letting kaveh stay with him bc through kaveh, alhaitham learns about not just himself but the outside world and humanity as a whole, and as a scholar, there’s nothing more valuable. (also because he feels comfortable with kaveh [“he’s a familiar face”] and they’re both lonely [“similarly lacks familial attachments”] lol these two are never beating the We Know You Don’t Actually Hate Each Other allegations but that’s a different point so i digress)

IN CONCLUSION:

this is all just the TEXTUAL evidence — people saying “kaveh is smart” — and doesn’t even include all of the obvious implicit signs of kaveh’s intellect (no one who graduates from the akademiya w honors and teaches classes there could be anything other than incredibly intelligent, al “i don’t do anything that i don’t want to do” “i’m not going to bother explaining it to you because you won’t understand” haitham not only puts up with but actively seeks out debates with kaveh which he absolutely would not do if he didn’t respect him or consider him to be of roughly equal intellect, look at the debates he has w alhaitham on sumeru messageboards and TELL ME those messages sound like they were written by an idiot or itto or something [you cant], etc etc etc).

and also this is all from 3.3 (+ 3.4 alhaitham leaks)! we don’t even know kaveh’s rarity yet, that’s how far he is from being playable, but there’s already this much information on just how smart he is! it’s the main thing we know about him — 1) he’s smart, 2) he’s passionate/driven by what he feels is right! why does that keep turning into “LOL HOTHEADED HIMBO”??!

okay look. this is all so extra i know. BUT. i must set the record straight now (god knows it’ll only get worse the closer we get to kaveh’s release) because this sudden-onset mass illiteracy within genshin players is going to send me to an early grave. feel free to use as a resource and educate the ignorant so kaveh does not end up reduced to a one-note meme dumb guy when literally that’s just… not even in the game. i mean at least other annoying OOC fandom interpretations have basis in the game but genshin literally tells u every time it gets the opportunity that Kaveh Is Just As Smart As Alhaitham Because Cold Rationality Does Not Equal Wisdom/Intelligence and losing that would be such a crime because it is by far the most interesting n promising thing hoyo has done with new characters in ages! like, not only are they funny and entertaining, not only are they fascinating incredible foils for one another, but they’re used to make a much-needed argument against the prevalent hegemony of mindless rationality and our “logical” society’s illogical fear of emotion/empathy. but yeah sure, theyre just itto & ayato 2.0, i guess. god. the lack of reading comprehension among genshin players is literally an epidemic

#frustrating me to no end. miss the entire point of their dynamic and characters as a whole why don’t you #literally this isn’t ‘shipping goggles’ or anything it’s just … knowing how to read. not looking for subtext just literally reading the text #kaveh #genshin impact #genshin #genshin kaveh #genshin impact leaks #alhaitham #haikaveh #kavetham #kavehtham #genshin meta #i hope ppl see this bc it Needs To Be Said but sadly it will probably get like 10 notes. BUT STILL. i will try #fr the narrative needs to change i don’t think i can take five months of people on reddit characterizing him as th watson to hthm’s sherlock #yeah maybe if watson was a fucking genius too!!! #long post #(under the cut lol) #100 #500

[tobisiksi]

the disastrous life of saiki k its only a comedy anime because we see everything from kusuo's pov and the things that's happens in the episode are just a normal day for him so he sees everything like normal and even comedic

I just KNOW that if it was from someone else's pov the anime would turn into psychological horror

#JUST LOOK AT THE TIME LOOP EPISODE OMG #he treats everything as a comedy or just as an annoyance cuz is the everyday thing for him #but damn #ku wont acknowledge his problems #at least he wont acknowledge them as slmething seriously he will just call them a bother #if it wasnt a comedy ppl would also acknowledge more how weird his family is #dont get me wrong btw #i love them but you cannot convince me that kusuke's behaviour is right.... #and abt kurumi and kuniharu #you cant convice me that they dont have the fault of kusuke's behaviour #They must have taught Kusuke that it is not okay to modify your brother's power limiters so that when he removes one his darkest secret will #-be revealed to the world #COME ON GUYS #kusuke explained that in front of these two EVERYOEN SAW THAT #WHY NO ONE ACKNOWLEDGES HOW FUCKED UP IT THIS?? #these two didnt said anything #they were just surprised for two seconds but nothing else #again dont get me wrong #they have good intentions and everything but i think that theyre not fully capable of having kids #no one is ready to have kids but in this case there is a genius with psychopath tendencies and saitama w pink hair #there is a lot of things that could go wrong #even worse if they cannot pick up some fucked up things like what i mentioned before #theyre trying his best tho #(at least kurumi is) #but its not enough #saiki k #the disastrous life of saiki k #kusuo saiki #kusuke saiki #kurumi saiki

[leclercsbf]

scuderiaferrari ciao leclerc and ciaolos sainz

#f1 #charles leclerc #carlos sainz #CIAO LECLERC AND CIAOLOS SAINZ #ABSOLUTELY GENIUS PUNS #but also. they are so so so so so dear to me #they’re so fucking cute just ciao-ing all over the place #and the way charles sometimes says ciao consecutively… killing me. absolutely killing me. how is he this endearing #falls to my knees… my babygirl #mi cielo #i love them i love them i love them #qatar gp 23

[saionjeans]

what i love about mikage is that we are constantly being told that he is an aloof genius who nobody can understand because his mind is simply so much more advanced than everyone else’s, but we also never see him do or say anything actually intelligent, and all we really do see him do is desperately long for affection and companionship and do everything in his power to strive to preserve the genuine human connection he seeks.

with miki we are actually given a reason to believe that he is a child prodigy: he’s good at piano, he’s good at math, he’s knowledgeable about eggs. i’m not saying that’s in any way definitive proof of his “genius” (anthy is also good at piano, utena is also good at math, and knowing the basics of what an egg is isn’t really anything to write home about either) but like. we can believe that he’s smart for a child.

akio positions himself as something of an astronomer, but we are also provided enough evidence into his astronomical insight to realize, before he even admits that he doesn’t really care about stars, that he’s not very knowledgeable about astronomy. and that makes sense for his character too, because why would he care about having knowledge that he cannot use to exploit and dominate others?

but mikage is neither shown to be intelligent nor unintelligent, we are merely told that he is such a genius that it isolates him from his peers, more like a robot than a human. and so it doesn’t actually matter whether or not that’s true, because all that matters is that he’s special in this way, and that conditional power he is afforded through his status as genius is what matters to his role within the narrative.

the figure of the genius is not an exceptional figure in and of itself, but only due to how such a title is positioned in relation to others, and the referent (the ontologically meaningless designation of “intelligence”) is actually beside the point. and what’s more, to be afforded that “specialness” is actually harmful, because it insists on isolating you from your peers for completely arbitrary reasons.

genius is not a pre-discursive, discrete quality, but merely another notion used as a tool to isolate, groom, and exploit people from a very young age within a hegemonic capitalist paradigm that values production over the human cost of the labor necessary to produce it, and/or the patriarchal paradigm that values an idealized fantasy of power over the violence necessary to maintain that system.

not that i’m excusing killing one hundred boys or whatever, but is it any wonder he saw no other way to move forward than to burn the entire edifice down?

#u #mikage #manalysis #analysis #akio #miki #‘or whatever’ bc talking in concrete terms about what mikage did or didn’t do is so nebulous to me #like did he even kill people……. who can say #those episodes fuck w my brain lol #but like. the designation of genius is smth i always find so fascinating #i love how empathetically it’s approached w mikage #like it doesn’t MATTER whether or not he’s a genius because what MATTERS is that such a status is isolating #and he craves connection even as everyone constantly establishes that he must not want it!!! #but he does!!!! he does!!!!

[tothechaos]

If people want an unexpectedly physically strong gray-haired character who can beat ass Wendy Oldbag is right there.

im printing this out and framing it

#youre so fucking right anon how does it feel go be a fucking genius #asks #ace attorney

[happystarzarchive]

i think im So Fuckin Funny huh .

#the world of mr plant #twomp #argos twomp #my art #my thought process 4 this post:: ‘ishould draw something making fun of how he always goes hogwild on his tea’ #‘make the cup really big . or just make him small . and drinky . HOLYSHIT argos drinkybird im a fucking Genius’ #so yeagh . drinkybird guy

[cosmicdorito]

"hozier my cottagecore lesbian bog man" shut the fuck up

#hozier #sorry youve got me in a mood about him #like yes hes a white man!!! but he knows that!!!! #hes using his privilege and power and position to talk about these things!!!! #if you dont listen to nina cried power and get the sense of like fighting cops what are you doing #he uses his place and privilege and fame combined with his lyrical genius to talk about social injustice #it just so happens that his style is very acoustic indie and the cottagecore bitches eat that shit up without a second thought #he is trying to make people aware of how fucked up the world is!!! #he is literally screaming 'im your favourite indie white man so please listen to what im saying!!!' #read that last one and tell me where the cottagecore is!! its not there bitch!!!!

[venusasnb]

slay (2024) // pietà, william-adolphe bouguereau (1876)

#dude this movie FUCKS. it's so stupid it's so genius. loved it #i guess mama mothered or whatever. she's so good . a single mom who works two jobs.. #and olivia.. ohhhhh. beautiful. profound. how do you make it better. it's already great #olive** #also dusty 😭😭😭 was about to bawl my eyes out bc of him #slay 2024 #rpdr #2 is my lucky number

[ssaalexblake]

People get weird about calling the doctor either smart or stupid under the tenuous logic of either 'they're a genius, of course they're not stupid look at the things they do!' or 'look at this stupid brain-dead thing the doctor did! they have no brain cells whatsoever' and manage to avoid realising that the smartest people in the world are also the stupidest and the stupidest people in the world also can be pretty damn smart as well.

The doctor is a moron, totally devoid of brain cells. Also a genius. It depends on what metric of intelligence you're using. They can be both of these things at once without it being even slightly contradictory.

#remembering when i had to walk through a guy how to make a cake stand #it took three steps #it had instructions that he was looking at #this man is by intelligence metric an actual genuine genius #he's also so fucking stupid i swear #it's like people saying ofc the doctor could cool well they can do chemistry #for real that plot in house where he can cook bc he knows chemistry ruined all of you #you need Way more skills in the kitchen than just chemistry #like common sense and many other things #the doctor has none of that