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ideas-4-stories · 2 days
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Buggy and Shanks must of been a handful when they were children. I can just think of all the crazy shenanigans that they did. Shanks had to shave Roger’s mustache at least once and Buggy must have been up to many pranks that were harmless and really funny.
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fizzytoo · 9 months
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little robot and her ducky goose sidekick will save the world another day!
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galaxyseclipse · 3 months
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“Don’t you want to be part of something bigger than yourself?”
“………..yeah, that doesn’t sound too bad, actually.”
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spooky goopy Four time! yay!
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eldritch-muppetshow · 8 months
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so here’s something terrifying in dalmo’s notes: the idea that leaders and castaways can become infected by the toxstool’s spores and thus end up as shambling fungus zombies
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rebouks · 1 year
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Norma: I’d love to know who called it in. Courtney: I guess it doesn’t matter. Norma: Maybe not-.. I don’t suppose either of you have any ideas?
Courtney: No clue. Oscar: Nope… Courtney: It could’ve been someone that got away, like Brynn.
Norma: Perhaps. Either way, that’s that! I know you’ve been through a lot to get here, but I think we can safely say it was worth it, don’t you? Oscar: What did you get on him-.. enough, I hope?
Norma: Now then, that’s not for you to worry about anymore, is it? Oscar: [sighs] It’s hard to believe it’s over. Norma: Well, start believing! There’s plenty wrong in this world-.. albeit a little less now, we ought to thank you for that.
Oscar: Hm… Norma: No fancy lawyer or wad of cash is gonna keep his ass out of prison, don’t worry. Oscar: Easier said than done.
Norma: C’mon, what’s next?! Surely you have plans now that it’s all over? Courtney: We’re getting married. Norma: Nothing as exciting for me I’m afraid, I think I’ll retire.. end things on a high note, right?! When’re you getting hitched?
Courtney: [shrugs] Oscar’s going to surprise me. Oscar: Soon? I don’t know, finding a cheap venue isn’t easy-.. cheap anything for that matter. Norma: You gave everything away, didn’t you?
Oscar: [nods] Obviously. Norma: You’ll figure it out. Courtney: We have a roof over our head, that’s enough.
Oscar: My parents own this place, we don’t even pay rent-.. yet. I’m working on it. Norma: A roof is a roof, I’ll let you get some work done though! I just wanted to share the good news with you in person. Courtney: Thanks for keeping your word.
[MUTED CONVERSATION]
Norma: It’s a genuine offer. Oscar: [snort laughs] Are you serious? Norma: Of course! Think about it, okay?
[Norma winks at Oscar as she closes the door behind herself, leaving him scratching his head in thought]
Courtney: Your papa has no idea what to do with himself now, bud. [Robin babbles incoherently] Courtney: You should tell him that yourself.
Oscar: Who’s telling me what? Courtney: Nothing-.. what were you two whispering about? Oscar: Never you mind.
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nucrests · 1 year
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Bailey Siblings ✨
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thedreadvampy · 1 year
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just like. bit late to the TMA2 party here but casual reminder that if you stay on that thing where you keep looking for throughlines and Clever Thematic Links between Mechanisms albums and Magnus Archiveses I will come to your house and beat you around the head with a 2x4 painted with the words THERE WERE NINE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THOSE ALBUMS
#red said#the mechanisms#reminded of this bc hereward just came up on shuffle and i remembered the multiple people being like#WHAT IS JONNY TRYING TO SAY BY SAYING#'HE LOVED HIS FRIEND MARTIN ' HMMMMM#and the answer is nothing#first of all bc i don't think Jonny was actually involved in Hereward although i may be mistaken#but mostly bc the person who decided that Hereward's servant who he loved was called Martin was a fucking. 12th century monk. you fools.#IT'S IN THE GESTA HEREWARDI IT PREDATES TMA BY ALMOST A MILLENNIUM#actually Martin might be a Kingsley invention I've never read the gesta herewardi I'm not a nerd#but that's still almost 200 years pre tma so the point stands#ANYWAY#that's not really the point the point is that people keep acting like there's some meaning to the parallels between Bifrost and TMA speci#specifically. and that may be true but that's not some master plan by Jonny because JONNY DID NOT WRITE THE BIFROST INCIDENT#Jonny wrote HIS PARTS in the Bifrost Incident but the rest of the band wrote THEIR parts and the story was mostly not Jonny's#so no he wasn't laying some masterful seeds and no they don't take place in the same universe#and no he's not the Genius Responsible For The Mechanisms it was a COLLABORATIVE PROJECT#with at least 4 or 5 ppl cocreating the bulk of each story and all members of the band putting a lot of themselves and their ideas in#and it is real fuckin grating having it framed as Jonny's Great Work when every person in that band had a similar level of creative input#Jonny's great. so are the other 8 people who made the albums
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pikkish · 21 days
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Yeah we've already talked about how outright stupid the lore n writing for modern Doom is, but tbh I can understand why they had to do something with Doomguy, why they had to make him The Specialest Boy instead of Just Some Guy. Do I like how they did it? No, I would've taken it a different direction. Do I think that hugo could've done it well even if he took it in the direction I would've? No, I have minimal faith in his story writing. But realistically, how many times can a guy singlehandedly accomplish the impossible before you have to acknowledge he's very much not Just Some Guy who happened to be at the right place at the right time? I think that, with how every single other person on the Phobos UAC base were killed in Doom I, doomguy stopped being Just Some Guy the moment he decided to do anything other than just lie down and die.
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cerealmonster15 · 3 months
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dropping everything to look up zodiac compatibilities. for fictional characters. for fanfiction purposes.
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bylertruther · 1 year
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i don't like season three when viewing it as a continuation of seasons one and two, but i do very much like season three when viewing it as the prequel to seasons four and five... hmmmmm.
#rewatching it bc i wanted to make another foreshadowing compilation post for myself regarding what will's actions will#likely be in season five re: vecna and lmao. so many things are just... it's like. it makes me laugh how In Your Face it is now#that we know all that we know. so many direct parallels both with dialogue and actions. mike/will/lucas/el foreshadowing their s4 roles.#the flaying of the holloways and the creels. the dormancy / activation shit. the building shit. the natural progression of their arcs.#the different ways that their characters approach problem solving and how we see tht reinforced by s4. it's so fascinating#genuinely i think idk it was just such a big culture shock i guess u could say from 1 and 2 that it was hard to digest on its own for me#but now that 4 is in the same vein it's like Oh. Okay. Yeah no. I get it now. That's cool. I'm forever bitter but I get it and respect it.#3 4 and 5 are a package deal considering they also said 4 was like part 1 of 5.#it also makes sense bc the point of 3 was that everyone was changing and building themselves in a new way and that#includes vecna so. just so fascinating how they link everything and how their vision is so consistent with certain plots and characters#like. the lucas max mike n will + el involvement is right there. the idea that they have to kill vecna and not just his puppets is right#there. that 2nd point starts in season two but three is where it really turns into an ''the end justifies the means'' situation#(especially for will which i think is something a lot of people overlook but—)#s3 is painful when considering their personal character arcs but fucking delicious when considering the overarching supernatural vecna plot#bc thts also when he starts his ''there is no stopping this'' shtick and actually enters the story#and he's fucking slimy lol. which i Love#anyway. omg first i defended mike in the rain fight and now i'm saying i kind of like season three who the FUCK am i!!!!!#crazy what feeling the need to defend a white boy's honor will do to you 😳
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ideas-4-stories · 4 months
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Buggy: Nothing lasts forever. Change is inedible. Shanks: *Trying his best not to giggle* Rayleigh: ... Rayleigh: Don't you mean 'change is inevitable'? Buggy: *Who has been using this entire conversation as a setup for the world’s worst magic trick because he thought of it in the middle of the night; spits out coins* No, I do not. Roger:
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a-x-ce · 2 years
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I HATE how Stranger Things season 4 made the conflict between Nancy and Jonathan dishonesty and a love triangle and not a continuation of their more complex conversation/argument in season 3 that was just settled with a simple sorry from Jonathan and nothing from Nancy since she got a pep-talk from her mom instead.
Season 3 spends so much time emphasizing how this small town is dying due to the mall coming in. We’re shown shops closed down and people protesting out in front of the mayors office after losing their jobs. All of Joyce and Hoppers earlier scenes together show us the store she works at is struggling to get by, the sale signs and discount pricing just to get people to come into the store. It’s emphasized again that the Byers/Joyce are struggling later when Hopper reveals Joyce is going to sell the house. It’s implied she’s doing that to escape the history they’ve experienced there (should’ve been a thought after season 1 happened...), but it can also be implied through these other elements that if her store closes down too she’ll be out of work, how will she support her family with no job?
That’s where elements of Jonathan’s story through the season picks up. Because he lands that newspaper internship along with Nancy, taking pictures for the paper. He’s mostly shown in the developing room, alone and just doing his own thing until Nancy comes in and tells him to come along.
Jonathan got a lot of flack from this season because the older men who work at this place are assholes, they’re sexist and awful and look down on Nancy ‘cause she’s a woman and an intern, not a reporter. She hates it but also not enough to quit because she wants to prove herself, and even after she’s told to let it go she doesn’t care even if it leads to getting fired because she’ll just move on to the next thing. She states all this to Jonathan who wants to support Nancy (hence why he goes with her every time) but is also cautious because he doesn’t want to get fired, losing his job while in the background his mom’s work is crumbling would be hard for their family (Jonathan wanting to help out financially is how season 1 started...)
Their entire argument boiled down to the fact that Nancy didn’t feel fully supported or trusted in her intuition that ended up being correct, while Jonathan felt Nancy didn’t consider him in regards to losing work, and therefore money, and how that effects both of them differently. Because Nancy ended up right it was Jonathan who apologized and the matter was over by the end of the season, but Nancy went on to have a whole conversation with her mom where she literally starts it with “maybe he has a point” because he DID have a point. But at no point in the rest of the series do we see them even talk about that argument from either side. But it was actually one worth diving into more? 
Because fundamentally that’s at the heart of the issue for Jonathan at the start of season 4. No idea what happened to Jonathan’s dream to go to NYU but based on what we’re give Jonathan and Nancy originally wanted to go to the same school, but it’s the school Nancy wanted to go to, but Jonathan ended up applying for other options, specifically the local CC. Why the local CC? For starters it keeps him close to his family, and secondly community college is cheaper. Do we even think for a second the Byers have any savings for Jonathan to go to college? Do we think he worked long enough at any of his past jobs to earn enough for college? Do we think Joyce makes enough money currently to afford to help him go to college? I think the answer to all of these questions is no. At this point he’d have to get a scholarship to even attend. Did he get one to the college him and Nancy applied to? To any other college? We don’t have that information.
I think the only thinking that was skewed was this idea that if he told her this truth, that he can’t or doesn’t want to attend the school she chose, she would want to attend CC with him and “throw away her dreams” but since they haven’t even talked he doesn’t know what she actually would choose to do. It’s obvious long distance is hard, hell that’s true for real life couples, but college is only 4 years, it’s a matter of whether or not they would make it work, or make different choices. They don’t necessarily have to go to the same school, it’s just better for their relationship, and they don’t necessarily have to break up if they choose different schools, they just have to be willing to work out the details of communication and making time for the other when they can. 
But it really boils down to two major things; 1: Jonathan is always going to prioritize his family, the last thing he wants is to abandon his mom and brother (and now sister too) and be a fuck up like his dad. Thanks childhood trauma! And 2. Finances/money/class. The Byers are poor, hell they’re still poor even in s4, Owens gave them that house to protect El, all of the money Hopper had was for El that was put into savings, Joyce went from a single mom of 2 to a single mom of 3! El literally wears clothes she gets from Joyce and Will, and we’ve seen that Joyce even wears clothes Jonathan has worn, so basically they’re a family of hand-me-downs. That has been showcased through all 4 seasons. We see Jonathan needs rides from Argyle ‘cause his car broke down and they couldn’t afford to get it fixed, etc. 
These are things Nancy just does not, nor can she truly understand because her family and financial upbringing and circumstances are much better. Her family is so well off her mom has been a stay-at-home mother their entire lives, they live in a two-story house, their family of 5 is well taken care of.
But that’s where I get the most annoyed because she COULD if they just let these two characters TALK to one another about literally anything for the last 2 fucking seasons. But the Duffers refuse, and by the time they might talk in season 5 it’ll be too damn late because the series is over. Robbing them of what could have been an actually interesting display of how two characters in love overcome these types of conflicts based on aspects of each of them that aren’t bad or wrong, just different. Nancy’s not bad because she’s from a wealthier more stable family just as Jonathan isn’t for being poor and from a less stable family. Nancy isn’t wrong for being ambitious, just like Jonathan isn’t wrong to want to support his family. Nancy shouldn’t have to put up with sexist bullshit or be held back, just like Jonathan shouldn’t be disrespected or devalued for prioritizing money when living through poverty. 
But no, we got a season of a love triangle instead :) very good, wonderful writing :) just *chef’s kiss*
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fayevalcntine · 1 year
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Taking aside whether everything we've seen is fully true or not (though I subtly doubt that since the writers have mentioned they will revisit a lot of the previous past scenes in season 2), the way Louis narrates is limiting on its own for both Lestat and Claudia. Omitting entire years' worth of time and only giving Daniel (and us) the barebones information through vital moments still leaves me with a lot of questions regarding Claudia in particular. Because sure, Daniel HAS the diaries, but who's to say they haven't been tampered with more than Louis even lets on? And specifically, when it comes to the 10 years overall after Claudia comes back, we see no diary in Daniel's vicinity. The only time we do see some is at the end of episode 7, of which one contains Lestat's final words, the other is about their trip to Europe after the murder. That leaves us with only Louis as the main source of information for this time period, but Louis isn't above solely giving Daniel scenarios in order to place Claudia or Lestat in specific roles through how he experienced them in the past.
Case in point, episode 6 has no killings from Claudia. We don't see her hunt, not even to go after a man or stalk him, we definitely don't see her kill, despite all episodes before or after that containing some explicit killings with her. I say this because to Louis, Claudia was his nurse/knight/protector/sister during this particular period of time. And even subconsciously, he ends up painting her as such to the point where we also don't even get much information about Claudia and how she even traveled in episode 5? We only get one piece of information about it with the train scene, but we still get absolutely nothing about how: 1) she even came to reading about vampires, 2) how she managed during her 7 years alone, 3) any basic information about her plans beyond her catching a train for going outside of New Orleans, or even about how she learned languages. The only information we even get specifically is regarding her horrible encounter with Bruce, but again, this later ends up serving more as an apparent parallel to Louis' later situation with Lestat than it is even about Claudia, who suffered through an assault.
I would also argue the same thing in regards to the 6 years they spent alone together, as well. Louis wants Daniel to think of Claudia in a better light, he makes her out to be his savior and the only person that seems to want better for him, yet at the same time leaves out any further details about the years they lived with each other (and not with Lestat) in Rue Royale after he recuperated? Why? And this isn't even to argue that Claudia may not have been as perfect, rather that Louis cuts out so much context as to how they were like with each other after she came back that I end up getting only so much information about Claudia solely when it comes to how it affected or was connected to Louis.
Louis is telling the story here, and even with Claudia's diaries (which Daniel now knows Louis has tampered with), we only end up seeing what Louis wants us to see. This is why I hope season 2 changes some of this because I would really like to just know more about Claudia and her own feelings regarding all the later situations with her and Louis.
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neriyon · 2 months
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Not all who wander are lost - Central Shroud
The Mirror Planks │ Bentbranch │ Gabineaux's Bower │ Everschade
"Our first meeting? Hmm... I was called to heal one of the Wood Wailers posted at Galvanth's Spire. Fairly ordinary case - the man had been mildly injured by some pack of critters, and instead of leaving his partner to guard the road alone it was easier to send one of the cojurers to tend to him.
When it was time to head back to the city, both he and his partner kept warning me of some diremites that had been causing trouble on the road near the West Vein. Diremites weren't really that troublesome, but they were pretty insistent, so I promised them I'd take the detour through the Jadeite Thick to ease their worries a bit.
Walk back home was rather uneventful, but closer to the city gates I could hear some faint groans few yalms off the path. Remembering the diremites, I pushed through the bushes to take a look - and found an beaten up elezen man on the ground.
I healed him and kept him company until his legs felt strong enough to carry him back to the city. Not like I could have hauled the man back to city myself... he was almost twice my height, and had a lot stronger build than me. From his training as a lancer, I learned during our chat. Draevoux Chevalier, he introduced himself. A duskwight who, like me, had left his home to study in Gridania. Unlike most elezen, he was happy to chat about pretty much everything - even the thing that led him to get injured so badly.
Drae, as the man had asked me to call him, had been looking for stronger foes to test his lance on. He had started a fight with a treant sapling, apparently not knowing they were pretty strong despite their generally calm behaviour. Not the brightest idea, but I had to commend his bravery."
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carcarrot · 7 months
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i did tell you people i met a they might be giant right.
#I DONT THINK I DIDDDDDD like an insane person i left out one of the most bonkers moments of my california vacation#saying it now makes it seem like im making this up and the following story will seem made up but dude just trust me.#im fucking. ok sunday morning the morning of Thee Concert and i (used to waking up at 4-5 am) have been awake on and off since like 6 am#my friend? asleep.#now i enjoy waking up and falling back asleep for a couple of hours however by like 9:30 im starving i need BREAKFAST#like the very nice friend that i am i dont wake my friend up i let him sleep and leave him a message on my open laptop screen#because the fucking hotel room doesnt have a pad of paper?? so i leave my modern post it note of a message#saying that im going out for croissants and coffee#because im an idiot i severely misjudge how hot it's already gotten in los angeles in july#ive chosen to wear jeans (bad idea) and a long sleeve flowy black shirt (worse idea)#i also dont look my Greatest because my friend had been telling me dont wash ur hair before we curl it for the concert!!!#so this is my hair after flying in and everything the day before (It Needs To Be Washed)#im following google maps to the coffee place as i brave the streets of los angeles on a sunday morning#hollywood boulevard around the chinese theatre is insane btw. insane. but being from new york i am unfazed (well. a little fazed)#i am Sweating. its already gotta be 80 degrees. im also reaching critical hunger levels. but i continue on my journey#google maps leads me down a sidestreet and tells me to turn down some alley and im like well thats not right.#so i turn to go back the way i was headed and find another way to get to the coffee place#as i turn and head back up theres a guy going down this same block heading in my direction#i look at him and im like hey that guy kinda looks like oh my god it actually is him. mr john l of tmbg fame#and so i have a split second decision of like do i sayyyyyy something do i just ignore him while geeking out#somehow i decide to be bold and im just like gdjgmm hi excuse me i recognize you uh do you mind if i could get a photo#he was very nice and suggested we move into the shade and i took the photo trying to turn off google maps before i did#and i was like aa im seeing you in concert 2nite love your music thank u! and we went on our way.#i think i kinda like. stopped for a moment before i went on to the cafe and was like. that just happened??????? insane. but it gets better#i do finally get the coffees n croissants btw and get back to the hotel after melting in the heat#and my friend who likes tmbg better was losing his mind once i finally told him#so the following morning after our spars concert insanity we have breakfast at a diner and then head back to our hotel#and he's wearing a tmbg shirt he got and im in a spars shirt and as we're walking back a car horn honks near us#AND ITS BOTH THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS IN A CAR and they say hi and are like we like your shirts!#and my friend and i are like losing it but trying to be cool and like oh thabk you we loved your show hi! so theres my insane story
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kyeterna · 1 year
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Of cycles, regrets, and grief
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