#the way he says 'i dig it'

[theminecraftbee]

incidentally for the people who aren’t zedaph watchers I have to express just HOW MUCH the crevasse is a step forward for zedaph building. season six he. didn’t have a base really if I recall correctly. in season seven he had an undecorated cave he put silly machines in. season eight he at least DECORATED but it was sure still a hole in a mountain. season nine it was a base he did a BUILD with! still a hole in a mountain. season ten is a STEP UP it’s a hole with NO MOUNTAIN REQUIRED,

#hermitcraft #zedaph #I SAY THIS LOVINGLY AND I HONESTLY LOVE HIS BUILDS #and his s9 base was gorgeous and a great monument to Zedvancements #but it’s SO FUNNY. predictable king who builds the same way I do: panic and dig a hole. #I wasn’t around for s5 to see how that fits into this trend. I suspect it was also a hole in a mountain tho. #although this isn’t fair of me. he ALSO had a game show. that’s basically the same thing as a base.

[arthursfuckinghat]

"I was gonna say you're like a son to me.. but you're more than that."

"It ain't that complicated!"

How quickly that shoulder pat of comfort turned into a condescending one.

#he makes me feel so emo #this life was never meant for you but your fate was forced #the way dutch (and hosea) talks to arthur like he's stupid will never sit right with me #like they've been by his side over 20 years they KNOW he isn't stupid because if he was he would have been gone a long time ago #not only is arthur incredibly emotionally smart but he's a trained conman vault breaker gunslinger horse rider you name it #the fact that his own adoptive parents break him down like that hurts #it's a manipulation tactic on dutch's end - break your victims self esteem to make them chase your praise and approval #hosea I believe has just gone along with that kind of attitude but in a different way he just likes to jest lightheartedly #arthur doesn't see the difference though and it's understandable but he takes it to heart #the worst part is that hosea sees through his tough guy act and has called arthur out on it #his act is a defence mechanism to protect himself from being too vulnerable - in arthur's mind #and it isn't a sudden thing it's very likely something that has built over the years given the life he has lived #and hosea notices he knows this #but they still jab at arthur #oh it hurts #is he your son dutch? or is he your guard dog? your personal workhorse? #playing through the second time is opening my eyes more and more #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #mick squeaks #mick rants #mick gifs #arthur morgan #dutch van der linde #liveblogging #you guys gotta understand - arthur seeks and longs for dutch's approval he'll never say it but it's the key motive behind his loyalty #and arthur *rejects* dutch's comfort #he doesn't *want* dutch to pat him on the shoulder because he knows dutch is digging them an even deeper hole #he doesn't want that touch he craves #it's so insanely monumental for such a small scene because it shows us how arthur feels without telling us

[fictionadventurer]

What was the point of Scrooge's trip with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come? On a structural level, it makes sense--three is the fairy tale number, and you can't visit the past and present without also including the future--but on a character level, it doesn't quite seem necessary. Showing a man that he'll die alone, unloved, and unmourned seems like the strategy you take as the last-ditch effort to convince a guy that he needs to change his ways. But that situation doesn't apply to Scrooge. He started softening immediately after he first arrived in his past. By the time he finished with the Ghost of Christmas Present, he was fully onboard with the need to reform, so the Ghost's vision of his future seems like unnecessary cruelty. Why show him all this when he was already planning to change his ways?

A few things come to mind. One is that this vision of the future wouldn't have affected Scrooge unless he had already changed his ways. A cold, hard businessman could have seen his lonely death as just the way of the world, might have viewed the people who stole the clothes from his corpse as just people doing what's practical in this world. He needed to relearn the value of the intangibles--human connection, respect for others--to see the true horror of the lonely death and the vultures who defiled the dead man.

But why the horror? Can't he reform without being threatened with doom? It's possible--but it's also possible such a reform would be temporary. After all, Scrooge started as a friendly, loving young man, but retreated into himself and his business out of fear of poverty and fear of the way the world looks down upon poor people. Even if a reformed Scrooge started on a course of Christmas charity, there was always a chance that the enthusiasm would fade, and the worldly fears would start creeping back in. The only way to beat those fears is to give him something to fear that's even worse than poverty. He needs to see the horrible end that his selfish ways would lead to, so he won't be tempted to slide back into them.

There's also the fact that seeing his death makes him ecstatically happy to find that he's alive after the Ghost is gone. Had Scrooge been spared the vision of his future, he might have been happy to find himself on Christmas Day, but his joy would have been nowhere near the manic glee he experiences after coming back from the future. Now, he doesn't just get a new start--he gets a second chance. Coming back from his own grave makes him mindful of his death, but it also makes him hyperaware of the fact that he's still alive. He isn't in the ground yet. He still has time to do good and make connections with others so he doesn't die alone.

Seeing the past reminded him of the innocence he'd lost. Seeing the present reminded him of the people whose lives he was missing out on. Seeing the future reminded him that death is waiting, so it's important to live virtuously while we can. All three are important because all three brought him outside of himself and taught him to value the wider world, just in time to live through another Christmas Day.

#a christmas carol #charles dickens #once again i've ponderously worked my way to the explicitly stated moral of the story #but i had to work my way there because stave 4 left me unsettled #had i been scrooge that trip probably would have squashed any desire i had to reform #the ghost *doesn't say* whether or not the future can be changed #what if this is just proof he's doomed no matter what so why bother changing? #fortunately scrooge was much better than i was about logic #namely: no reason to show him this future if it *can't* be changed #the point of these ghosts is to save him from marley's fate #plus we did have the ghost of christmas present's implications that future shadows can be changed #it's kind of interesting when you step back from familiar stories that just go this way because it's how they're supposed to go #and really dig into 'wait a minute. why did it go like this?' #it usually winds up with me figuring out that the writer knew what they were doing #but it's also nice to see the scaffolding that got us to the story

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

Ugh everyone dunking on Steven are soooo cringe 🙄

Shane and Ryan are grown men who stood by this decision, so please dunk on them too lmao.

#watcher #sorry i think it's funny to dunk on steven and his tesla and expensive lifestyle and finance bro ways #i just think it's unfair to forget that they let him do that!!! they looked at that and went 'yeah i'll stand behind that' #so #let's dole out the dunking accordingly #but i do get why ppl hone in on steven specifically because like #the optics of going 'we're strapped for cash!!! anyway here's our new show about me traveling all over the world and eating gold!' #are not great good buddy ol' pal #they are in fact EXTREMELY hilarious #to be clear i'm not saying go and harass them #and in fact most that i've seen are people making the same sorts of gold-flake tesla jokes which i think are understandable #considering the aforementioned optics #i just think people hand-wringing over all the 'hate' steven gets are forgetting that he's living a life 90% of his audience can't afford #*because* of his audience #ALREADY #ya dig??

[jonny-b-meowborn]

Okay so Laios is a dog therian for sure. Or wolf. Definitely some kind of canine. I think he's a dog but wishes he was a wolf

#look in the previous ep he literally pretended to be a dog to save everyone and IT WORKED #and hes known to have a great dog impression #AND he turned into a dog in his dream to dig into Marcille's dream #AND Marcille remembered him as a doggy in her dream #so #i think the way Marcille say him is the real Laios #and the way Laios pictured himself when digging is his idealized version of himself #but like #that guy is definitely a dog and you cannot change my mind #hes just like me #therian #otherkin #dunmeshi #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #laios touden

[puppyeared]

AKA... the CATS!!

#the owl house #the owl house spoilers #toh #toh spoilers #o titan where art thou #I KNEW THEY WOULD GET ALONG. LETS GOOO #ppl digging up the raine and luz art i made last summer like OP how does it feel to be right LMAOOOO #i hope they regroup with the hexside gang this week. please i want to see the cats grow in numbers #also!! very excited to see luz's palisman!! i was thinking it would be a bat because of that aesops fable with the birds and the beasts #the way the fable goes the birds and the beasts were at war and the bat would say its a bird when it sided with the birds but it would also #say it was like a beast (i think a mouse?) when it sided with the beasts. anyway i just think it would go well with luz reconciling her #life on earth with her life in the demon realm? but id also be happy if she gets a bird so shes like an honorary clawthorne!!! #specifically a blue jay to go with hunters cardinal? but im just excited overall to finally see her palisman #also i think that bat queen was the collectors palisman considering how big he is in kkkohd #esp because the collector must be really fucking old if the bat queen cant remember her owner AND we didnt know who the collector was in s1 #my art #fanart #the owl house fanart #toh fanart #toh 2b #the owl house season 2 #toh raine #toh luz #luz noceda #raine whispers #o titan where art thou spoilers #HISSSSSSSS

[reigningmax]

The "Daniel is only hyped cause he laughs and smiles a lot" is genuinely the worst take you can have about this lmao.

Daniel Ricciardo is, along with Lewis, THE most recognizable face and name in motorsport outside of the F1 fans bubble. Therefore, he is extremely valuable in terms of marketability. He is also an 8-time race winner. For that to be dismissed and to say he's average as if the past 2 years erased all his accomplishments is insane lmao.

Being an accomplished driver AND one of the most marketable athletes in your sport makes you valuable as fuck.

#my post #and i am not a delulu daniel girlie lmao #i say it how it is #this move is gonna need to prove a lot #and i feel bad for nyck not getting anything from anyone #but the way some *max fans* are acting is sooo dumb lmao #you can not like him #you can think he's gonna flop whatever #but to dismiss his accomplishments and his power in the sport? #do you hear yourself? do you not know who he is? #i am a delulu max girlie and i go to war for him #but he is NOT on the same caliber of marketability #outside of dutchies and hardcore max fans #which is why max and daniel as a duo is so powerful cause they balance each other out #and daniel can bring out the best in max #the max we the hardcore fans get to see *very rarely* but others dont #come on now lmao #the think pieces are so weird #and the constant digs are also weird #you know you can black list his name #right??? #ha ha so funny daniel flopped at mclaren ha ha yuki is gonna outperform #some of you need to learn when your jokes go from funny to annoying as shit

[zer0point5ive]

adam who knows the door is wide open, knows he could leave at any point, knows that lawrence wouldn’t stop him, couldn’t stop him and yet. and yet .. adam who looks at the fresh crimson stain on lawrence’s shirt collar, the red beneath his nails he hasn’t quite managed to scrub away yet and wonders if there’s any universe in which he’d run to the cops, to anyone. adam who knows there isn’t. lawrence wouldn’t stop him but adam wouldn’t run. adam who despises everything jigsaw stands for, tells lawrence as much, tells lawrence that he’s gonna be the first to dance on that bastards grave when he finally kicks it but who still stays with lawrence. despite it all. because he’s lawrence, because he’s adam’s. because they’re so inextricably intertwined that not having lawrence around now would kill him as surely as reaching inside and pulling out his own beating heart. he’s everywhere and he’s everything, living in the spaces between adam’s ribs and wrapped around his brain like a live wire. running would be suicide and besides, adam’s not gonna let him go, can’t. not now. adam who would absolve lawrence of just about anything as long as he’s by his side, as long as he keeps coming back, as long as he switches the light on when he gets home and cups adam’s face oh so gently in bloodstained hands

#lawrence who wishes he would. just a little #lawrence who looks at the smear of blood he leaves on adams cheekbone and asks why #adam who just shrugs and says ‘because’ which is simultaneously not enough & too much #youll never recover from that kind of devotion or whatever man who even cares. sound of me crying #thinking about codependent chainshipping in a way that feels like digging my own grave #i need to walk around for awhile #sorry adam being given a flashing neon sign that says exit here nd choosing to ignore it because lawrence isnt on the other side oh i am #Soo normal #its about being selfish in the most self destructive way possible #how can i make this about dog adam devoted to the point of no return #nevermind i already did apparently #chainshipping #adam faulkner stanheight #lawrence gordon #📹

[feralsteddie]

Okay just saw a post that was talking about how Steve would at least have an idea about bisexuality even if he didn’t know the name of it bc of pointing out Vickie could still like boobies thing

And I absolutely agree, I’m a Steve knew he like babes and dudebabes all along truther, BUT

Steve also could’ve known it was something Vickie could do, but not himself.

When I was a kid I knew trans women and drag queens, I spent more than a little time with them, and I still didn’t know you could be trans in the other direction until someone spelled it out for me. Obviously, that’s a bit different, but Steve could have the idea that, yeah, totally, Vickie’s a girl so Vickie could like both, because in his head it could just be different.

He grew up in a small town in Indiana in the 80s, it wouldn’t be that he was stupid, wouldn’t be a hit on his intelligence, it’d just be something he didn’t know and hadn’t had the chance or resources to learn about yet.

#steve harrington #listen!!! #i say this bc even the difference between the 2000s and now is astounding #like my fifth grade babysitter was a drag queen!!! I had a whole person right there was a trans girlfriend and the pieces still didn’t click #even though I already knew something was off with me I didn’t connect those dots and didn’t really know how to voice that #nowadays people have internet and library resources to figure this shit out way more than I did #and there just more visibility in general #and that’s just like a fifteen year jump #in the 80s? where before Rob Steve would’ve only heard the queer community talked about in slurs??? #unless he went and found himself a community- a place that wasn’t biphobic too which is hard to come by even now #he wouldn’t know! #and that’s not a dig in him!!! #sorry I have… a lot of feelings #especially about this #pyreposting

[supercalime]

I’ve been lurking in the 911 tags for only a week and I’m already exhausted of most b*ddie shippers holy shit

#the annoying ones know who they are #this isn’t a personal attack #I truly don’t want them to become canon out of spite #why even tag your hate in the goddam tag dedicated to another ship #Tommy’s tag has a lot of hate and people talking about eddie how there’s clues etc etc #I haven’t been deeply involved in fandoms in the last few years for this exact reason #when it becomes too meta it kinda ruins it for me #people digging through interviews and trying to find evidence in situations that weren’t intended that way in the writing drains you #sorry to break it to you #but Bucky is into tommy and was since the beginning of meeting him #yall going #well actually #he’s in love with eddie but doesn’t know and misplaces it with Tommy #is tiring #I don’t know if b*ddie will be canon but not everything has to be about romance with them #they seem to have a connection that goes even deeper than romance #having them be a couple just kinda irks me #they don’t need to be two bros sitting in a bathtub five feet apart but they seem like soulmates in a way that I don’t see as romantic #I say as an aromantic person too #deep connections can be just as intense and interesting if even more than coupling up #obviously not tagging the ship name cause I’d be lynched if I do #and again this isn’t about the actual ship it’s more about the fandom and how they feel entitled to claim theories as facts #lety rambles #tommy kinard #tevan #tuck #911 #911 abc #911 show #bucktommy

[kaeyapilled]

i am still not over the fact arlecchino is referred to as "father" by the house of the hearth kids btw. the gender of it all

#i cant articulate this ugh #its just. the idea that she plays not the role of mother #where nurture and compassion would typically be expected of her #but the role of father. where a more stern and i guess distant sort of love might be typically expected. Yeah #i also dont hate the fact she doesnt seem to be abusive to the kids. i know i said i wanted her to be irredeemably evil but i really dig th #s #i actually really like the direction they seem to be taking? where its like. #shes still The Fatui. shes still using orphaned kids for military missions #but she doesnt go out of her way to harm the children. id say she sort of goes out of her way to *not* do so #AGH IT MAKES ME INSANE!!!! #the fontaine siblings' voicelines about her made me utterly insane. particularly freminet's #leaks skip if u dont wanna know but when he says she doesnt like crying so he avoids shedding tears in front of her at all costs (augh) #but still will say that things got better after the house director changed and she took charge #and that she literally told him that he has to value his own life instead of prioritizing self-sacrifice for loved ones' sakes. or somethin #which i take to be good advice for freminet in particular who has some concerning suicidal tendencies going on in there #anyway yeah arlecchino i am obsessed with you #my posts

[skippygiraffee]

I have Leon brain now

#no thoughts only him #champion leon #pokemon sword and shield #been like this for months now and he's entered the blorbo hall of fame for real #the way I had to dig through so many screenshots on my switch of just HIM to find this specific one to use was #eye opening to say the least

[s0fter-sin]

thinking about the way ghost doesn't hesitate to start killing shadows when graves betrays them but soap only takes one hostage

you can almost hear the voice in his head telling him it doesn't have to be this way; they can still talk it out

"i'm calling shepherd"

his first instinct when confronted with betrayal is to play it by the books; to go up the chain and sort it out democratically. that goes against everything we've seen him do; he’s quick to drop his enemies and bucks authority at every chance except for the one time he's confronted with the barrels of his allies' guns

he wants a peaceful resolution; for the first time we've ever seen, he doesn't want violence to be the answer

there has to be another fix, a solution that doesn't end with him killing the same men he's been working with; his friends

nothing's happened yet

it doesn't have to go this way

but ghost has been betrayed before. he knows the way this ends; either with him six feet under or his enemy

he doesn't hesitate

it's only when they knock alejandro out that soap shoots; when they spill the first blood and cross a line they can never come back from

only when ghost orders him to run and he has to cover his retreat

and somewhere along the line, between civilians’ screams and taunting voices, between his shaking breath and ghost steady in his ear, that naivety is stripped away; his trust turned to teeth that he uses to sink into throats of men he'd have given his life for

"be careful who you trust, sergeant; people you know can hurt you the most"

he's learned the price of trust

just like ghost did

but unlike ghost, he has someone to guide him through the aftermath

"good advice, It"

#i might crown myself the ceo of soap meta at this point i love digging into this boy #but it seriously fucks me up how much he tries to de escalate the situation #invoking shepherd like hes trying to remind graves of who funds him and the power he holds #the consequences he’ll face if he goes through with this. just stop and think it through first #only to be stricken silent when graves drops ‘general shepherd sends his regards’ #he doesnt say a single word after that #ghosts the one who picks up the lead for him ‘he knows about this?’ #he can still function through his shock and the gut wrenching betrayal bc he’s been through this before #and he knows freezing will get him killed #but soap doesnt #he freezes #getting shot is something he wouldve been through before but being shot by an ally? #at that moment he isnt sergeant mactavish #hes johnny and hes in shock #and thats why ghost yelling for johnny doesnt reach him #he only breaks through when he calls him soap. when hes forced back into a soldiers mindset #thats all thats keeping him going. he isnt johnny a man whos been betrayed by a friend #hes a soldier following direct orders to keep himself alive #i can only imagine the after #when he lets his rage run out and is faced with the vulnerable and painful betrayal #but ghosts there to help him through that too. there for johnny the way he wished someone had been there for him #coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt #cod mw2 #john soap mactavish #soap cod #simon ghost riley #ghost cod #soapghost

[moonshynecybin]

Okay but what is vale’s reaction to the motogp Instagram account posting that in the forced coming out au. Internally I mean. Does he do his best to ignore it? Is he so deep in denial that he’s patting himself on the back for being a good actor? What narrative is he building in his head?

coming down on jorge lorenzo (decidedly winning the idgaf war in all years) sending it to him and vale externally commenting two little love hearts and @ ing marc's insta publicly BUT also internally being like. im gonna have to run away to some uninhabited island in the mediterranean and live in exile like napoleon this sucks so bad

#hell world. forced to perform in ways that are not comfortable to him #truly i think the biggest part of this au for me is the torture of fame in addition to all the rosquez stuff. #liek really dig into vale's need for privacy and innability to have it and how his persona is leveraged to manage it #how does he function when he has to do that about something so personal like marc? i think not so good. #theres a reason he doesnt say as much about him. marc wants you to know when hes suffered. vale wants you to think hes teflon #asks #callie speaks #motogp #rosquez #forced coming out au

[toerrishumansodontbeone]

[the radiant emperor spoilers]

Hey do you guys think about how Yuchun becomes a reflection of Zhu when their whole time together they had both been regarded as small ugly bugs, both coming from nothing and becoming what they are at the end of the story.

He cut off his own hand,, and zhu saves him with basically no time to spare...just imagine that fuckin reunion.... Imagine these two side by side when the world finally sees them.

This book is just mirrors all the way down!!!!Damn!!!

#zhu and ouyang insane platonic soulmates?no #everyone is everyone is everyone is everyone #insane how much mirroring there is in the sequel #i could find more and better ways to say it and im 100% certain theres more to yuchun n zhu if I took the time to dig it up #but u get my point #he who drowned the world #the radiant emperor #and much more to say about yuchuns replacement of xu da too #vermin chat

[knxfesck]

It's really fucking funny to me how you can see Drift's Nice Guy Persona being carefully crafted and eventually moved on from throughout MTMTE. This panel is like level 1. Acts of violence? well I mean. you can't just stand there and look menacing right. So he goes full throttle with the huge smile and everything. I bet he watched a marvel movie to find that quip. I'm sorry Drift everyone probably thinks the crystals are having adverse effects at this point.

And the fact that he knows it's pretty obvious and is just kind of hoping nobody notices and they don't because at least it's not Big Bad Decepticon so he's in a sunk cost situation. The act is bad but its also way too late now to drop it. At least in the world of Drift Self-Justification.

Nice save there buddy. Only 3 seconds delay! 👍

In all honesty getting kicked off the Lost Light likely allowed him to exhale and reflect on why exactly he was doing this, and how it was tangled in his own concepts of absolution and redemption and in hindsight, kind of stupid, even if it made sense at the time. Taking the fall for Rodimus fucked up a lot of things and enabled Rodimus' issues with responsibility but it did at least (forcefully) give Drift an opportunity to slow down and get himself back together that wouldve never happened on the ship or at least wouldve been a much slower process. Anyways, thanks for coming to my "let's make fun of Drift for being a really bad actor when not in high-stakes situations" meetup

#thinking thoughts etc etc #made sure to get specific with the acting dig bc I hate when people make generalized assumptions plus #drift strikes me as the kind of guy who's very good at acting/freestyle lying. Not in a way where he relies off of it or it comes very #naturally like starscream per say but you don't live through the dead end and be a successful decepticon commander wearing your thoughts on #your face #so I imagine he's great at it unless its something really minor in which case his brain's like What Are You Doing this is Not Necessary #so he's always fighting it over that bc reputation is important but everyone on the lost light is so goofy his habits arent #kicking in right #lmao #drift idw #drift #transformers idw #txt #analysis