#still does not feel relevant

[markscherz]

"Scherz" is one letter away from the italian word for "joke"

Considering the whole "mini frogs are puns lol" thing, how does it feel being a Charachter with an Actual Narrative? <- someone with Protagonism (if i recall correctly) that would REALLY LOVE FOR THE CAST TO EXPAND. PLEASE, I CANT DO THIS ALONE. I JUST WANNA MINECRAFT-

"Scherz" is zero letters away from the German word for "Joke". In that it is the German word for joke. As I was so often reminded in my youth. SUCK IT HATERS

Well, as someone who successfully survived the years since 2019 when we published Mini and the Gang™, and found out that they may have, like, 50 more years to live, it is a little frustrating to have peaked at 27. I guess I have 50 years of trying to chase and reproduce that elation. What madness will this result in? Stick around to find out!

#protagonism #I am not sure I understand the last two lines of this ask #but here we are #I have only had a few moments in my life where I felt like 'oh yeah this feels like it could be from a movie' #and honestly more of them were thrillers than I personally care for #I have nearly been hit by lightning or falling trees on too many occasions #occupational hazards of working on montane rainforests #but yikes #anyway what does this have to do with minecraft? #I was in the minecraft beta back in 2011 #and watched all of the original Yogscast series #but never really got into the game itself #still does not feel relevant #about me #answers by Mark #rainbowgod666

[uncanny-tranny]

Love disabled people who just lie about their disabilities to nosy, intrusive questions. Sorry, yeah, I lost my arm in the wash one day. It's funny how that happens! Oh, I got back pain from saving nineteen children from a burning fire department <3

#disability #sometimes lying is just. funny. SORRY. #look like... whether you lie about why you're disabled you're still disabled and it shouldn't have to factor into how you're treated... #...if it isn't relevant to your care needs or care plan. #like. if you lost your arm does it matter if you say you lost it in the wash like a sock or tell your actual story... #...like either way you still /do not have an arm/. that doesn't change if you lie or not #anyway. huge defense for a post that probably didn't need said defense #sometimes you just feel like lying in such a grandiose way that people don't know if they SHOULDN'T believe you #i think my lie will be that a powerful necromancer preformed Emergency Bone Shaving on one leg only... #...and he used the bone shavings to raise a skeleton army that looks like My skeleton but only on the legs

[witchspeka]

It's always "Shou and Ritsu need to blow stuff up with their minds for mental health reasons" or Ritsu and Teru or even Shou and Teru!

But what about Mob? When does he get to blow stuff up with his mind for funsies? For shits and giggles? He didn't go through all of those meltdowns and character development for nothing, let him go ham on a junkyard car or something smh

I believe in Mob's narrative given right to fuck shit up sometimes

#im hungry i should do homework i should also finish all of my other drafted posts BUT I AM LAZY #ive been starting to write fic tho at least thats productive. fic thats kind of relevant to this actually hm #listen i just want more Mob content where he does smth reckless or stupid with his powers he deserves it #or just in general tbh i need more content of mob being kinda mean or having arguments with ppl like to a healthy degree ok #but i still want him to. yanno. lash out and stuff. experience emotion. have him get angry over petty stuff #the first mp100 fic ive ever started writing/drafting had mob and ritsu having a proper fight post canon #i just need it for my OWN mental health. let them have dumb sibling fights and have mob express his annoyances #itd be funny and cathartic. for me at least. ill finish that shit one day its been assembled and disassembled but ill figure it out #eventually #let mob feel and express all of the ugly emotions he didnt allow himself to acknowledge for years pls #its my favourite thing #anyway. #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #shigeo kageyama #cine te a intrebat

[spielzeugkaiser]

Perhaps some Cherik if you're fond of Xmen?

Or Hua Cheng and Xie Lian from TGCF for that juicy love story?

I feel like a sommelier, but ships instead of wine.

9/12 - Don't come into my house an make me care about Cherik in 2023 😭😭 Seriously this was my first ship ever, this is where I learned to sail!! And at the time I didn't really draw yet, I'm. Excuse me I feel a need and emotions 🥺🥺

#x men #charles xavier #erik lehnsherr #x men days of future past #it was this and not first class or their old versions because i enjoyed charles depression look in this movie + his relationship with logan #also don't get me started on that movie I WILL cry it is brilliant #god this whole prequel trilogy came out TWELVE YEARS AGO #and I'm still softee #also look at them and then look at my favourite tropes and then stare into the distance because OH #I didn't think of cherik and years and I was instantly gobsmacked by love #also why does it feel that x men in general never stops to be relevant like seriously

[crawlingpen]

"use commas" this "learn how to spell" that. you fools. the very core of linguistics is the change that you so despise on account of lacking any sort of knowledge or foresight. you imbeciles. we the linguists laugh at your little commas and dots that you throw around in your playpen. you think it matters? you think any of this matters? the only thing you should even slightly care about is if you can understand or interpret the core of the message. you hold up the punctuation system as you do the values of the past, thinking it sacred, much like a false idol. you will never be free if you dont stop policing the victimless crimes we've made up. you will never ascend.

#linguistics #language #mepost #every time someone fixes a spelling issue that isn't necessarily relevant a linguist loses their wings #we call your behavior prescriptivism and laugh at you behind your back by the way #this isn't to say let's not teach kids the official spelling rules #i just mean if someone's shitposting it's unnecessary #shitpost #i'm rambling #love u all #are you still here reading this #check out my other posts and make me feel loved #hey have you guys ever heard that song 'would?' by alice in chains? #it sounds like it's a 2000's videogame soundtrack dont you think? #i just think it's neat #oh god are they problematic #i should've googled this #well i guess let me know if they are #hey does anyone wanna be friends? #it gets lonely out here in the tags #i mean message me? #i cant promise you the best skills in the art of conversation #but i am known to hold one or two in my time #the conversations i mean #anyways thats all

[lyril]

i think my headcanon is that bob's burgers is actually still in like, 2011-2013.. . they make modern references on occasion (gene makes a joke about the fidget spinners fiasco in a later episode i watched) but. i feel like they just belong in that time span y'know. it's like their natural habitat. all that truly matters here though is that the breaking bad burger of the day can still exist

#talk #cartoons #bob's burgers #since season one established a lot of stuff #i actually headcanon that it takes place a year before the current seasons #so it's spring 2011 and then tina turns 13 #and then by the movie its spring 2012 #and that leaves room for some holiday episodes to be canon but not all of them at the same time #going into summertime #it's still a lot of. stuff! but tina is still at wagstaff for now which is the actual like relevant thing to a timeline #like literally does anything else matter except whether tina's group is in high school yet or not #i feel like it doesn't #they're like holding up the status quo because they can't write school episodes with the kids seperated #br1ghtestlight's posts got me thinking about this so i maintain mr frond is a little younger than bob and linda

[crash-bump-bring-the-whump]

In the spirit of that reblog, could you tell me more about Luis? He's the primary whumper in lots of your writing and many of the war mages seem to sincerely loathe him, but then Mariano is shown to have a really trusting relationship with him and Luis clearly cares about the war mages at times. I haven't quite strung together the complexity of it all yet~

Ohhhh my god yeah this ask has activated my Cannot Shut The Fuck Up Disease so let's GO.

Luis is absolutely a complex whumper and hard to easily grasp. He has nothing but love and care in his heart for his mages. He's trained literally every single one since they were 18, and you can't not form a bond of some kind with someone in that time--and all of them know that he loves them. They know he would rather die before seriously, legitimately harming them on purpose without reason. They know he gets zero actual enjoyment out of hurting them.

Unfortunately, they're all special ops soldiers. People who, sometimes alone, are put in situations where they face capture and torture and unthinkable suffering. So Luis has to prepare them for these possibilities. He's seen what happens when you aren't prepared, back when he was one of the very first war mages on his own squad.

He's seen people give up and die, people he loved dearly. He's lost mages, Dimitri and Laredo's old squad, because there was an accident and (in his eyes) they didn't have training and clear guidance to fall back on (I will get to that in the stories though, it's something that informs the "you have to save yourself" standing order he has in place). Luis is someone who fears loss, especially loss of bright, young, talented mages. So he tortures them in a safe area with his own two hands, and teaches them how to read a torturer and captor, and how to mentally recover from the immediate aftermath, and how to escape even if it feels impossible.

He trusts his mages to follow his orders, and they trust that if they do what he wants, he'll treat them well. It's a basic sort of thing but it's necessary for their relationships, and generally he's very fair with not punishing them too harshly for silly stuff so he legitimately does build a good rapport with them all. If they get the training room, or are threatened with death, it's because to Luis what they did was just that serious.

Unfortunately, he does still butt heads with them, and he does still threaten their lives if they decide war crimes aren't something they want to do, all on top of punishing using their worst fears. Over time, no matter how much you love someone, that sort of abuse sours all the good feelings. The good feelings don't go away, bc when they're good they're good, but it makes things complicated.

Dimitri trusts Luis to not freeze him to death over simple disobedience, but he's afraid of him, and he hates him, and loves him, and if Luis approached him with an apology and changed behavior after prison? Dimitri would forgive him, because he was forgiven after making changes and working on himself.

All of the war mages feel similarly, really, because Luis' warmth and care isn't an act. They know that like them, he's also receiving orders that he can't just disregard. They may hate him sometimes, and they may disagree with him on fundamental stuff like "hey, perhaps stopping the war crime stuff could improve our lives in the long run", but they're all stuck with each other in a shitty, traumatic situation, so they make it work.

BASICALLY with Luis I'm exploring complex, complicated feelings about someone who has power over you, sincerely loves you, and who hurts you anyway bc I just think it's interesting! :)

#meta #Ask game #Ask games #The leader #Also Luis was the lamb on his squad #Just a fun fact #That certainly would never come into play as he's training his own mages #Look I have mommy AND daddy issues so now the war mages don't know how to feel about Luis #They do but it's complicated #As it always is when love and abuse coexist #Abuse #abuse of power #I'm discussing frankly really rough stuff and why Luis does what he does and why his is how he is so like be warned #I also talk briefly about navigating forgiveness when someone has horrifically abused you and you still love them #:) all of this will be relevant don't worry

[paunchsalazar]

I don’t know if I have what it takes to do this, in terms of talent and skill and willpower, but if so I have absolutely no idea what to do otherwise

#I’m okay with being a just kinda alright artistically but being just alright and unemployed can only go on for so long and the gap grows #I feel so stupid but also any other route I can imagine feels false… #I had something like a dream for a little bit maybe that’s it #and i don’t think that complacency is the whole of the problem but it certainly isn’t helping.. but it’s hard to feel motivated.. #even those who I feel like are giving it their all and leveling up at rapid speeds are just as unemployed.. does it even matter #but am I wasting time by not trying harder? I have a good amount of work + relevant experience.. still not enough #whatever me and a few hundred others so it goes #I just don’t know what to do with the days and worried with each day I’m screwing myself over for the future w each choice

[guideaus]

this might just be how its translated, but why does he clarify this lol

#personal #hgsn #'i wont hurt her' is simple enough. says what wont happen. 'actually i cant' feels kinda like 'i couldnt even if i wanted to' #like... DO you 🤔 #him taking away his ability to fight does mean something but also its probably more meaningful later if he still cant but chooses not to #but the insides bit is plot relevant so #idk if pacifying him w snackies after is effective. she liked him more than he liked her after the one meeting

[jils-things]

since i have laras permission to post shit he made heres another favorite old art done by her ☝️☝️

this literally summarizes everything there is to know about these guys

#love this art too hard because like #1) stevaide kisses (which is something im so shy to do) #2) gold and ruby are there #3) gold is angry and ruby's innocence is protected /jjjj #4) oc friend is present (pokelara) (he's babysitting them I think HAJAAJSJSHSJJ #im not sure why but i just felt compelled to make gold this opposing force to not like stevaide at first #i like to think gold thinks people like him are stinky bleghhh and definitely thought steven was a team rocket mf (they all wear black) #so he was immediately against this #he didnt care when jaide (hypothetically) went uhm so there's this guy (i dont think she'd talk like that BUT HYPOTHETICALLY!!!) #but when he saw the pretty boy it was so joever for mister St.even Stone #but eventually he accepts him and they have a funny dynamic going on (where steven tries to make gold like him) #gold actually does start to like him because he actually feels relevant. we all know how the hgss arc went down #still i think gold is still too high and mighty to kinda cave in and go yeah i love my brother in law but he really does appreciate him #and of course - to see someone love jaide. he's happy for her (and like how jaide is happy that gold has his own circle of friends AAACCKC) #WHY AM I SUDDENLY TALKING TO DEEP ABOUT THIS IM #FUCK IT IM STILL TALKING #ruby probably doesnt mind the pda (because he adores them and doesnt feel embarrassed about it) until franticshipping confession happens #because I fucking love the idea of ruby watching his mom just gently mwa his dad and then hes like OH GOD WHY AM K THINKING OF SAPPHIRE EW #(hes in denial ok how long did this boy take to be fucking HONEST WHILE SAPPHIRE TRIED HER HARDESTTO CONFESS MF) #HE WOULD FIX HIS GLASSES AND TURN AWAY. OR COUGH. AHEM. MOM PASS THE DRINK PLEASE (gettin them to stop fucking sweet talking at the TABLE) #SHSBDBBSSJDJSHS OH MANN SEE THAGS HOW MUCJ I ADORE THIS ART BECAUSE YOU CAN GET AN IDEA OF JOW EVERYONE IS HERE SKSJDHHSEJS #💚 for me #lara tag #ruby.fam #gold.fam #stone family tag

[izzibeeb]

as I get nearer and nearer to senior year I start to wonder. is anyone ever going to explain to me what a college essay is or are we just supposed to figure that out by ourselves

#it’s not an argumentative essay right ? because. it’s not an argument #is it still five paragraphs? do you have to cite evidence ? #I feel like every prompt I’ve heard of is like ‘tell us about a life-changing experience you’ve had’ and ummmm #I have never ever written an essay for a prompt anything like that #how do you format that? #someone once told me she got distracted in the middle of her college essay and accidentally wrote a short story. what #how does that even happen #WHAT is going on in that essay #beebs blabbing #DO YOU HAVE TO INTEGRATE RELEVANT QUOTES?? ARE THERE SOURCE DOCUMENTS?? #HELP?

[spielzeugkaiser]

why didn’t lovechild!au geralt ever go looking for jaskier?

That is a good question! I think there are various things at play.

First there is Ciri – which he did take in shortly after they separated. Since I took wild hunt Ciri for this story (when they meet later) this does change her age quite drastically. It deages her quite a bit (if Milek is around 14 and she is ~24) that means Geralt took her in when she was nine. And I think that does change things. His focus was on her.

Then there is Yennefer – I think she wanted to encourage him to look out for Jaskier, but she is also majorly pissed at him. I feel like their dynamic changes a lot because she is aware of Milek. (It’s way cooler, for a start.) It’s not her intention but... Geralt feels even worse because of that? She makes him feel like he did something unforgiveable. Which makes avoidance a bigger topic on his side. And after a while… I dunno. When Yen and Geralt had that talk on the dragon hunt, that this life they lead doesn’t fit and work with a baby – Geralt was not wrong. And I feel like, with time, and what Ciri goes through too, Yen comes to realize that it might be better if he doesn’t know (for now). So maybe she doesn’t outright discourage him to look out for Jaskier, but… She certainly is not encouraging that idea. (it’s messy.)

There is part of Geralt that feels like. Jaskier will come back when he feels ready (he always did) and if he goes out to find him, he isn’t welcome. It doesn’t help that Jaskier is suddenly very hard to find. Geralt wants to respect his wish to not be found.

(little does he know).

And then there is also A LOT of plot happening.

#he can't be blamed for the time when he had amnesia #he can't also be blamed for the time he was dead MHH- #a relevant plot point appears? maybe? 👀 #also I have to say it: I want Jaskier to meet Regis so bad #hMMMMM #listen I think Geralt is sad (and poutes a little bit) and is just! an awkward guy sometimes when it comes to emotions! #but the biggest thing is Geralt '0% self worth' of Rivia #this man needs some sign that he is wanted or he will never impose #and the timeframe in which he WOULD have easily gone off to apologize is somehow gone #it's been too long #he still wants too #Geralt is 100% still beating himself up about that #once again #little does he know #that feeling is gonna get so much worse

[rawliverandgoronspice]

perhaps I have found a title for the animatic project................ I'm thinking Thralls of Power?

#thoughts #animatic project #I'm still.... playtesting it in my own head if that makes sense #but I may like it #I do have some problems with it tho #Thralls might be a little too extreme or lean a little too heavy in a direction that I'm not sure actually encompasses all the themes #but at the same time it does carry A Lot of thematic relevance #and you immediately get it's going to be ganondorf heavy #while being also bigger than him and encompassing far more than him #two other dumb issues I have with it #is that the short version would be ToP which is. Hilarious for a number of reasons. #and also my other ongoing project's acronym is teop #so top and teop do feel weird #and also very funny

[drones-of-innocence]

Hi Drones! Love your Mareach fanfics (literally top notch💯). I was wondering, what are your thoughts on the movie (assuming you’ve seen it😅)? I have a few thoughts on it, but would love to hear yours!

Hey there!! I appreciate the ask! (And OMG thank you for reading my fics, that's so sweet of you 😭)

I have finally seen the Mario movie and I do have a lot to say haha, and I'm cool with sharing my broad thoughts this way, but if you're looking for a more in-depth discussion then I'm happy to discuss more in a PM!!

Just a brief disclaimer; my opinion reflects only my personal preference! I don't have any problem with disagreement or anyone who feels differently.

I will say the movie was a lot of fun! It was so surreal to see the Mushroom Kingdom on the big screen, and to hear such familiar melodies in cinematic arrangements. It was downright magical, actually. There was plenty to laugh and be amazed at, and so many references that had me grinning the entire time!

About the plot though 😅 There are pacing and some narrative critiques that I've seen so I won't say anything beyond that. The most important thing for me is I believe in the merit of a children's movie being all fun and silly, but I also really feel like this film went out of its way to avoid social commentary at its own expense. Not for no good reason; I know Nintendo does everything possible to keep the Mario franchise as family friendly as possible. But in terms of an impactful story, it fell sort of flat in my view. I feel as if it could have benefitted from some kind of social commentary beyond it's shot at subverting the damsel-in-distress trope.

(That in particular felt like performative feminism in a sense. Maybe it wasn't, maybe it was a sincere attempt at empowering an iconic character. But the default answer in a lot of media to empowering women these days seems to be "make her strong the way that the men characters are." A girlboss, I guess. It feels performative for me because it reaffirms with the idea that strength in character can only be relevant/seen within masculine qualities, and writers can just say "but it's a woman!" while continuing to disregard more feminine examples of strength. It's like a Get Out of Jail Free Card to acknowledging gender inequality.

Like, the problem wasn't that she's a damsel-in-distress; the problem is how pervasive the trope of damsel-in-distress used to be across the board. Except now, pop culture has sort of swung the other way. The problem isn't the girlboss character, the problem is that the girlboss character is perceived as the only correct way of writing "strong women characters." It's just sort of missing the point. The problem is still the same; women characters are stuffed into the same small box of behavior, attitude, and ultimate role depending on what's trendy at the time. I love the damsel-in-distress trope. I also love the girlboss. But it can be tiring to see that same story over and over again, feeling as if there are only a few options for writers to portray women, and realizing that it represents a sort of confinement of understanding for what women are allowed to be in real life for social acceptance, too.)

I get the desire to avoid politics and social issues. I really do, but in my position (studying social sciences), I see social issues as unavoidable. To go without acknowledging them is to ignore them, and from a story perspective, to go without them also kind of makes it boring?

I've seen the argument that it's a children's movie, therefore it doesn't have to be complicated. That's absolutely valid. I wish I could go back to having no thoughts lol. But it's my personal preference to watch a film that makes me think and consider the world from another point of view. And in response to that argument, all I can really say is basically my favorite genre is children's films that have social commentary. (See The Iron Giant, Wall-E, The Little Prince, Megamind, Beauty and the Beast, literally any given Studio Ghibli film. All of these have something to say about society contained within them.) I kind of wish the Mario movie had an interesting point to make in that context, but it didn't really, and that's okay. That's just why it's not one of my favorite movies.

That being said, there is plenty to love. The character designs were absolutely adorable. The Mushroom Kingdom was more than I could have ever dreamed of, and the way Mario and Luigi's brotherly relationship played out was just so beautifully written 🥺 I love that this will undoubtedly expand pop culture's regard for Mario, and maybe draw others into my silly little corner of the internet where I just sit here and publish my fluffy Mareach fanfiction 😆

#Mario Movie Spoilers #Kind of? #Not really anything specific #But anyway #Like I said I do have a LOT more to say #And I'm still having debates in my own head over it #Like how important is it REALLY to have social commentary? #Does struggles for family approval/validation/acceptance count? #(Not enough imo) #Not looking to be controversial #But this is one of the few things I feel mildly qualified to talk about #“ACTUALLY I've been writing Mario fanfic since I was ten so 🤓” #CLEARLY I am a relevant authority on this topic /s #It's literally Mario #It's not that deep #(But I want it to be) #(And that's my problem) #(So I will continue to make my own goofy fanfic over here) #(mine does have some social commentary sometimes) #Just saying I would be down to help write the next film lol #@ Nintendo and Illumination #Sorry for this preachy take but I do have opinions haha #Diary of Drones #Thank you for the ask!!!

[hephaestuscrew]

Doug Eiffel is just a guy who makes people say "idiot" /affectionate

#W359 #Wolf 359 #Doug Eiffel #Episode names in alt text #There are differing levels of affection in these quotes #but that undertone is there #I particularly love 'our idiot' and 'our moron' #because it seems like such a familial phrasing #maybe cos it reminds me of when people say 'our [name]' to refer to family members #which I know is a dialect thing that's not relevant here #but still... #He's not just any idiot #He's *their* idiot #Affectionate insults kinda feel like a family thing anyhow #He's not really stupid #but he does do plenty of things that merit him being addressed like this #the empty man posteth #Hephaestus found family

[marshmellowtea]

idk i guess my philosophy when it comes to damien and mark has always been like.....damien isn't a bad guy, really, i do think he has good intentions most of the time, but given the environment he's in and how much money and power he has access to, it makes sense to me that he'd occasionally stoop to underhanded or scummy methods to get what he feels like he needs or deserves. meanwhile mark is also not a bad guy—though he certainly tends to be more selfish than damien—but he's been severely hurt and has never been properly supported through all of it due to a combination of the time period he's in, the people he's around not fully understanding him, and his own self destructive tendencies. oh, and house entity also. that's very much a factor here.

#markiplier #who killed markiplier #actor mark #damien the mayor #marshy speaks #....does it surprise anyone i still have a lot of thoughts about this series? it's kind of surprising me ngl #i'm firmly in lila territory interest-wise but wkm is always going to occupy a special piece of my brain ig #anyway once again 'actor has trauma from even before wkm' truthing #as well as 'damien is not super innocent' truthing #i wish i had something to say about will here to complete the trifecta but idk i guess he just doesn't feel super relevant here #and besides i never really did figure out what i was doing with him character wise #even with all my thoughts about his and mark's tumultuous love-hate filled brotherhood #i think he's also. primarily traumatized. as a motive to why he's Like That #along with the stress of being outside the class that his friends are in #i'm still a 'will was a child of one of the iplier servants truther' as well i really think that makes the most sense #anyway i guess i'm getting sidetracked. just. yeah.