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Learning that someone loves a character you hate, for the exact same reasons that you hate the character for, is honestly so wild. Tastes really do be different, huh.

My nails-on-a-chalk-board are your symphony.

#Tastes #Fandom Life #I genuinely am fascinated by this every time

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made this post transparent

#hey can I have an all bully Lord of the Rings remake? #this makes me want to see Lord of the Rings but it's all bunnies #bunnies are the best animals ever

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"I know if you still have feelings, all right? My bank tells me!"

New favorite Fantasy High without context quote just dropped

#Fabian Seacaster #Fantasy High Junior Year #FHJY Spoilers

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EVERY time Brennan brings up something related to the Seven, I squeak and vibrate in my seats like TECTONYA last episode had me go THAT WAS THEIR QUEST!! (how has Zelda not told them about this, her and Gorgug were still dating back then and she was also close friends with Fig and Adaine?), now the SOCIETY OF SHADOWS??? The fucking losers who tried to recruit PENNY!!

Like, THAT'S MY GIRLS!! He keeps talking about my girls!!!

#The Seven #Dimension 20 #Fantasy High Junior Year #Tectonya Karkovnya #Penny Luckstone #FHJY Spoilers #also the Penny-Riz pipeline has me so devastated #that they never got to interact as PCs so far :(

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Okay, so, her murdering Buddy isn't a dealbreaker. Characters who have killed can still be interesting and likable. (I'd argue, sometimes that even adds to the characters.)

But her Villain Origin Story being... that... her parents are boring? That's so lame and Siobhan is right. Just murder them if that's the problem and frame someone else, make up your own conspiracy that caused their death.

Devastatingly disappointing, honestly. I had expected more of her, I really thought the reason she hated Riz would be... interesting and weird but in an exciting way. Not "buhu his dad died and mine didn't that's so unfair", that's wild.

Hoping there will be layers added because this would be a let-down for me, personally, who has made up this whole thing in my head on how she can join the Redeemed Villain Squad after we learn the terrible thing that made her this way.

#Kipperlilly Copperkettle #Fantasy High Junior Year #FHJY Spoilers

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Murph: You GOTTA honor the cock

Emily: THAT'S MY HUSBAND

Me, tears in my eyes: I love them sm

#Brian Murphy #Emily Axford #Fantasy High Junior Year #FHJY Spoilers #they really are goals

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i think i am going to write it anyway, but i think it'd be interesting to hear people's opinions

#oh it just FULLY depends on what the setting of the story is #like an in-universe post-canon story might REQUIRE OCs actually #because you need bad guys. because the canon charas may require New Allies to fight said bad guys #just the way a new season/movie would go. introducing new characters. part of story-telling #you can't reuse those who already HAVE roles in the universe there #but I get wary if it's a full AU and instead of putting the canon characters Into Situations #the author chooses to fill every damn role with OCs? #which. I vividly still remember that one fic that was a coffeeshop no powers AU #and ALL characters aside from the main ship were OCs #the main ship's BEST FRIENDS were not their canon besties but the author's OCs #the people working at the coffee shop? ALL OF THEM WERE OCs. not a SINGLE other canon chara was used #and like. nah man I'm out. at this point the main ship are just ur OCs dressed up with canon charas' names #because you reinvented every single dynamic they have in canon to instead include your other OCs #so yeah. leeway on in-universe fics especially post-canon ones #but being really really REALLY wary of full AUs filled with OCs #also because the whole fun of an AU is to see canon characters Put Into Situations and you're... not doing the fun bit... #there's also the exception of next gen fics because yeah duh if I want to see these charas as parents they need a kid #also the gray area of they-theoretically-exist-in-canon-but-these-ARE-OCs #(characters who are dead before canon starts and only exist as the concept of i.e. The Dead Mom and you write 'what if mom lived')

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I physically, mentally and emotionally need today's episode of Fantasy High Junior Year to bring up Ayda again, and give me FigAyda feels again.

And that shouldn't sound like "gimme my shiiip ;o;", but to be very frank, I wouldn't be so desperate for it if not for Brennan.

If Brennan had just taken Ayda away from me and said "she's on a time quest with her dad" and that's that? I would still be pouty about him removing my favorite character of all of D20, but I could accept that that's how it is (especially with how he removed a lot of familiar characters).

But Brennan went out of his way and established that Ayda can and will reach out through time, with ridiculously large romantic gestures, at that.

It's solely due to that decision that I spent every downtime check waiting for Emily to roll for relationship and for me to get more FigAyda, waiting during every not combat or active investigation scene for something else grand and ridiculous to come up.

So yes, yes, I am asking for him to gimme my ship, but quite frankly, that's on him.

It's been too many episodes since she last came up, I need a sign of life (and love) from Ayda Aguefort, or I will combust.

#Ayda Aguefort #FigAyda #Fantasy High Junior Year #FHJY

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daily self-affirmations 💕

my podium is clean and not covered in spaghetti

i know that the 87th element on the periodic table is Francium

i am not trapped in the time loop

i know how to fix the ElectroBobbleWobble QZ

i am not trapped in the time loop

i have a sufficient number of boxes to reach the shelf of ducks

the wenis is a dance

i am not trapped in the time loop

the wenis is a dance

i am not trapped in the time loop

#very important <3 #Game Changer

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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

#I LOVE THIS MOVIE SM #all time fave <3 #Miss Undercover #(I blatantly refuse its English name <3 can't spell it for shit <3)

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I'm going to sound very old and very tired here for a second, but iIt is so dystopian to me to have ads on my computer.

Ads used to be on the internet. And that's that. The things that were installed on my computer did not show me ads.

And that goes even beyond the questionable practice that free versions of programs such as Avira now show you lil ads in the corner of your screen like once a day.

You used to have free games on your computer.

I was in the mood to play a game again, a very rare mood for me, and I opened the game center for the... first time since I had this version of Windows (as I said; very rare mood).

And there's ads. You play the "free" games that live on your computer and there are ads left and right and beneath it and between levels there is just a 20 second ad break.

You can go premium to no longer have ads.

That's dystopian to me.

When things that used to be fully free and just part of something are now riddled with ads and to get the ad free experience that, again, used to just be the experience, you have to pay.

And it's not even a one-time-payment.

Back in the day, you used to pay for something and then you owned it. You used to pay for a program or a game, and you owned a physical CD that you put in your computer to install the thing and it was just yours. It belonged to you, because you paid for it.

Now everything is a per month subscription, which is just so sinister because many look like oh, that's not that much money! Sure, I'll pay 1,99€/month to play games ad free. Every single month sums up, and it sums to a lot over the years though, for something that used to be free. (And I've complained about subscriptions before, in the context of Adobe, which isn't just dystopian anymore, it's actually plain evil to demand 25,99€/month to use a singular program, that you can now no longer buy to actually own.)

And I know - I know - you can find free games online to download or play in browser (already did that for mahjong) - but I'm talking about the principle here. The principle of getting ads on your computer, directly, and to have to pay to no longer have ads and use something that had been a part of the Windows experience since... forever.

#Ads #Windows #it's getting worse and worse

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I've heard that bit before in the tags and I've actually thought about it.

Two variants:

Zac opening YouTube to a cocktail tutorial actually filmed with the real Grant O'Brien, in the same manner as the fix-the-terror-machine bit on the Game Changer episode and following real!Grant's instructions

Zac demonstrating the cocktail making the same way Rashawn did on the Southern Breaking News episode by just randomly pouring liquids together that look like fun

I think Zac Oyama should play Grant O'Brien more often.

Next season for Dirty Laundry, I want him to play Grant for an episode. Not fill in for him, but fully commit to the Grant bits.

#Zac Oyama #Dirty Laundry

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The passage of time has been declared problematic

#we live in the darkest timeline #when it comes to fandom behavior #I do hope all of these people commit #to eternal celibacy because growing Old Enough For Sex #is VERY problematic of them and they should NEVER procreate #to expose future children to their fucked up world views #Fandom Discourse

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What do you think of the Hunters of Artemis as a concept? I think that's one of the many questionable things about Riordan.

Oh, at first I thought you meant the Hunters as a concept en large, but if you specifically mean Riordan's version of the Hunters, that is a very different conversation!

I loathe what Riordan did with the Hunters. To pre-dominantly turn them into pre-teen children to the point that people in this fandom went "it's weird that Reyna, a whole teenager herself still, joined the hunt with all the kids" like no, no, no that's not what the fucking hunters are.

The Hunters of Artemis aren't a bunch of kids!! They never were!

But Riordan's Christian interpretation of maidenhood - meaning a never-had-sex-before-virgin - really fucks them over so much. A maiden is an unmarried woman. That can, of course, include kids, but it also includes full on adults.

The Hunters should be a band of women, who escape having to get married - be that because they are lesbians, aroace, or just not interested in marriage at all. They were Artemis' way of protecting women.

Also just generally the way he treated the Hunters. We first met Zoe and Phoebe as the only named Hunters, then Zoe immediately died, Thalia and Bianca joined, but Bianca immediately died. He named Naomi and Celyn in Heroes of Olympus and then immediately killed them off, together with Phoebe. We should have gotten a oneshot story on Thalia's life with the Hunters that elaborated on them. But they were always just treated as expendable characters.

But learning about how Riordan made two wlw Hunters leave the hunt, because they were a couple, from what I gather about The Series I'm Not Gonna Touch...? If it were just about them wanting to get married, wanting to settle down, wanting to leave the hunt, that'd be different.

There's also something strange, to me, about making Reyna join the Hunters when he explicitly stated that she is ace but not aro. If she were intended to be aroace, to join the Hunt and get some distance, but as an ace, I find it incredibly weird that she had to flee into the "no relationships at all" group of people just because she doesn't experience sexual attraction. But that's more about his interpretation of asexuality than of the Hunters, I suppose.

#Hunters of Artemis #Riordan Critical #PJOverse

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Piece of advice: in this line of work, the only thing worth falling in love with is the work itself.

#no I love this set so much #it's so so pretty #the coloring is gorgeous #and all the different shades of purple #and MY GIRL #<3 #Lydia Branwell #Shadowhunters

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#June ATLA #Zuko ATLA #Iroh ATLA #NATLA #Avatar the Last Airbender

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#My Wife #Nyssa al Ghul #Arrow TV #Arrowverse #DC Comics