#a better version of our best

[ljf613]

Genuinely obsessed with the three unnamed kids from HTTYD: Homecoming.

Why are you like this, small children?

LOOK AT THEIR FACES

This one kid never uncrosses his arms and it's GREAT

"What is that weird old guy doing?" (Also, when did the blond girl put on a copy of her friend's shawl? Did she pull it out from somewhere when we weren't looking?)

"Should we maybe get him some help?"

"Let's just get out of here." "Yeah, sounds like a good idea." (And I stand corrected-- he DOES uncross his arms sometimes.)

Is that the same kid in the back right? I think so. And look, he's sitting with some other, smaller child! Is that his brother, or is he just being nice and looking after a younger boy?

Alright, I think that's the tall girl in the middle left (four rows back), wearing that same red shawl. And there's the pouty boy in the front right (to the left of the child who looks like their head is sitting on top of a lantern), next to the same little boy as before-- and he's actually smiling! But where's the blond girl with the hat? Do any of you see her?

He's still here, but the kid next to him seems to have disappeared. The seat is empty, though, so maybe the small child just got up to use the little Vikings' room. But WHERE'S THE BLOND GIRL???

Okay, I spotted him at least THREE TIMES in this one frame. (Four, if you count the kid behind and to the right of Zephyr, who's got the same hairstyle but a different colored shirt.) Are they triplets, or is Dreamworks just trying to be sneaky with repeating character models? I SEE YOU THERE, YOU'RE NOT FOOLING ME!!! (The tall girl doesn't seem to be in this shot, though, and STILL no sign of the blond girl. WHERE IS SHE???)

He's in this frame twice, but the blond girl STILL doesn't even get to be here even once??? SMH. (Side note, that one boy in the yellow shirt is in here AT LEAST five or six times. Three of the copies are literally SITTING NEXT TO EACH OTHER!!!)

At least both versions of him are excited here.

Awww, he let that scared little kid over there hold onto his arm! (Not the same little boy he was sitting with earlier, but that's fine. Maybe younger kids just like being near him.)

Tall girl in the red shawl has reappeared (to the the left of the guy in the middle) and I THINK that's the blond girl (on the middle guy's other side). She's got the same haircut and dress, she just isn't wearing that hat. Where's your hat, sweetie?

Aww, look!!! They really ARE good kids! (And the hat's back! YES!!!)

Mad respect for the tall girl who got her friends to do the hard, dangerous part and just gets to stand there bossing them around. You go, girl!

"How's that?" "I think we're good!"

ANYWAY, this has been an appreciation post for these three specific children and these three specific children ONLY.

#how to train your dragon #httyd #thoughts #httyd homecoming #the three unnamed kids #and if you're thinking that these kids are going to appear in #a better version of our best #you are absolutely correct #THEY DESERVE IT!!! #all queued up

[inkskinned]

it mattered because when my brother asked me what if this is the happiest you'll ever be? the best you'll ever get? the thing i felt was fear, not peace. everybody thought you were so perfect for me. even i thought you were "helping me grow". i had to challenge every internal clock. make myself more thoughtful, more kind, more beautiful.

i told my therapist it was good because i like the changes i made and there's something so strong about saying i did that. the problem is that i can like the difference all i want, but i changed for you. something akin to getting your name tattooed, all my progress is stamped with fuck you.

it was the happiest i'd ever been and also the best i'd ever gotten. i would still get in the car and think what the fuck just happened.

#warm up #writeblr #i spent a lot of time picturing our future #how funny to think: in each version of our future #i was never myself #i was someone smarter kinder braver #better adept. #who could navigate the way you shouted and got angry at small things and never fucking believed the best of me #i would never be needy and you'd never get tired of me #people usually talk about how we picture people as being “fixable”. but i assumed i was the problem. my idyllic picture wasn't of you. #it was a version of me that wasn't ill. that needed no extra help. that could be your wife and happy #the fact i wasn't happy was because there is something so wrong inside me. it's always been that way. i convinced myself: #if i stay i can change. if i stay i can make it worth it. i can apologize and fix this. and make us both okay. #for the last year i've been thinking about how you blamed our whole breakup on me. how it was my fault for whatever thing. #and i agreed with you. because of course i did. you'd trained me to believe everything was my fault . that you wanted to love me and i made #it far too hard. that i was always finding ways to ''set you off'. #a few days ago while i was doing something else #i realized that while i was in crisis you told me to fuck off and find someone else to get help. and you never fucking apologized . #you said i made you do that because i wasn't being sensible. i had been crying too hard to speak clearly. #you said: you're doing this to manipulate me. #you forgave yourself for that. i had to forgive you without apology. you said you were right to react that way. and then you were SO #SO annoyed. any time i said: i feel like you aren't nice to me. it is hard to trust that you love me. #i don't think about you that much anymore. but these days when i do: all i can think is that im not sure u ever really understood kindness #you were the cruelest to the people closest to you. and most of the time. that meant it fell to me.

[elliotts-personal-property]

Okay so after a long time of refusing to watch the Def Leppard movie bc of how bad I heard it was from y’all I finally caved.

And y’all were not wrong😭😭

I watched it last night with my best friend and even she (who knows very little about the band) was getting pressed😭

I feel like that just tells you how bad it was. Anyways, now I’ve gotta go find some way to permanently block this out of my memories🥲

Also I’m convinced the universe didn’t want us to watch it bc we got my old crt tv hooked up to my computer to make it “better fit the vibes”. And we got literally 11 minutes in before my computer restarted out of nowhere and we struggled for 3 hours to get it back up and running again😭

#also if anyones interested we both hated the casting so my friend and I made our own updated version #it’s not the best but i think it’s better than whatever THAT was😭 #if you want me to i could post our fan cast and y’all can decide if it’s any better than whater that was #hysteria the def leppard story #kris’ reviews #joe elliott #rick savage #steve clark #phil collen #rick allen #pete willis #def leppard

[pageofheartdj]

"It's Not Hard To Be Kind" is such a bullshit! Actually it DOES take a lot of energy and personal self work and patience and being mindful and being considerate.

Do NOT diminish people who do their best not to cause more harm. People who try their hardest to have an open heart and mind in any situation.

This shit is hard and kind people deserve all the respect!!

#kind people are not saints #they CHOOSE to be better #it's a hard work and you shouldn't think you are not kind because you struggle #it takes lots of work but its doable #and i am SO proud of anyone who tries their best! #who fails and instead of giving up they choose to learn from their mistakes #there is always more to learn more to understand #and people who never give up who stumble and fall and get up despite how the cruel apathetic world tells them to just lie down #and go with the flow #are AMAZING! #we aren't perfect! #but we want to be good and we WORK for it #our dedication to become a better person for ourselves and everyone else is inspiring!! #i try to be kind #its hard #very #lets do our best! we can always become a better version of ourself #kinda rambled but whatev xD

[8rujaa]

my therapist really saved me….

#tw abuse // tw sa #i can’t sleep bc i keep thinking about this. #like i probably would’ve not been here if it weren’t for her #i started seeing her january of 2023… my life has changed entirely since then and she was definitely the one who got the ball rolling #literally so much has changed since then and it’s all because of her #i was so dissociated during our first few sessions #thanks to her i was able to get diagnosed and medicated for adhd. i was able to realize i was in an abusive situation and plan a way out #i was able to focus on myself and my healing and she’s helped me reframe so much of my negative thinking #i was able to process a lot of emotions and become a better version of myself with each session #she’s truly incredible. #i remember the first comment she made about the relationship had been ‘’so it’s like there’s an imbalance of control in the relationship’’ #i had put my partners on such a high pedestal that i had no idea they could be doing anything wrong #and i asked her what she meant and she said ‘from what you’ve been describing it’s sounds like a strict parents and child type of dynamic’ #she told me they didn’t need to understand why i wanted to leave and they didn’t need to make that decision. if that’s what was going to be #best for me the only thing i could do is let them know my reasoning and simply leave. i didn’t need their permission.’’ #i remember being so confused at that realization bc like… i had been putting their emotions over mine the whole time i had forgotten simply #doing what’s best for me was an option… l #ever since then i’ve been putting myself first and it’s been a steady uphill from rock bottom… i’ve made an incredible amount of progress #when i first started with her getting out of bed and walking to the kitchen was incredibly difficult and took all my strength. #yesterday i conquered a mountain!!!!!!! i hiked all the way to the top!!!!! :D #me a year ago thought it was going to take me years and years to recover. as soon as i left i made leaps of progress #im incredibly proud of myself and grateful for her. and my reiki lady she’s also been a great great help. #the silver lining is i realized who really matters. and the relationships i cared about deepened. #my sweet virgo friend was the one who was always like ‘THATS A GROWN ASS MAN WHO CANT UNDERSTAND BASIC CONSENT???’ #LMFAO i would be like ‘but he has trauma and bla bla bla’ she looked me dead in the eyes and said #’jess you said with your last boyfriend that you would never make excuses for a man who was hurting you again. stop defending him.’ #she’s really a gem and i treasure her with my life. i hope she knows i love her. she’s family at this point #she’s also literally saved my life before (like deadass called 911 for help) #im glad i had the support system i had. that was a rough situation with so many layers and im glad i got through it #my 22nd year of life was by far the worst of my life and i don’t ever want to put myself in that situation again. im glad i learned.

[daz4i]

i have a possibly controversial opinion to say

obviously, some media is just copaganda, trying to make you view the police in a more positive light so you don't think about their wrongdoings

but you know how some media seems to be very anti police, until one character shows up and is a good cop?

people insist this is copaganda too, and they may be right. the idea of no good cops is real, bc the system itself is corrupt

however. i want to apply good faith reading for a second. at least to the independent creators who make these pieces of media. and say that maybe this is less a reflection of real life (as in, it's not that they think there are good cops irl), but rather what they HOPE real life was like

most of us are taught from a very young age to always trust the police and to go to cops when we're in need of help. as time goes on, however, many of us unlearn that sentiment, from observing cops' behavior and violence.

still, it makes sense for some people to hold onto hope that there are good cops. that if they ask for help, someone will give it to them. and they may not express it out loud - they may not even realize that hope is there at all - but it will be expressed in their art

i think the fictional trope of "one good cop in a corrupt system" (or the subtrope of it, "one good cop who's gonna fix the system from the inside") is not necessarily an antithesis to anti cop mentalities. i think it's more of an embodiment of a somewhat childish hope that some ppl have no choice but to cling to, because it's better than realizing no one can help you

now I'm not saying we shouldn't call this out or point out why it's harmful. but i do think that, again, at least with independent creators who could very easily read any comment you make about their art, we should try to apply this good faith reading here and there and be at least more gentle in our criticism of it.

#I'd argue another version of this can be the trope of good ceo or manager characters #bc ppl would like to imagine that the people at the top actually want what's best for them aka the workers #even if that's rarely the case irl. at least in large companies #think abt how despair inducing it is to learn that these people don't actually care #the people who aren't directly affected (for example. white ppl when it comes to police violence) can be in denial about it #but only up to a certain point. bc it's not like you can ignore reality forever. still! it is very depressing to remember the truth #but fiction is not the truth. stories are how we engage with ideas. including our hopes for a better world #i dunno if any of that makes sense. i might delete this later. but these are the thoughts I'm having rn

[pollyna]

All of these prompts sound fascinating! Being super into Ice, I'd be really interested in 4, 15, 22 and 31, but any writing of yours is a gift.

It wans't in any of my plans to actually write on of that prompts AHAHAH but anyway i can't say no, but it's gonna be an extension of the prompt more than a ff? I'm probably going to go back on them at some point when the fucking inventary will stop killing me. So thank you so much for your kind words and i'm really sorry if it's not what you were expecting.

-#04: Can't pass out

"We had a pact, Admiral" a voice says, from the door.

"No. You, my husband, and my kid decided on something. I, for my part, didn't agree with anything. So no, no pact of any kind, Admiral Kerner."

"Thomas." 

"Ronald, what can I do for you today?"

"Cancer won't win because work will kill you first."

"I'm going to die anyway. At least you should let me choose how, what do you think?"

Ron knows that snapping back won't help, that Tom is just as concerned and scared as they all are. And he's tired. He was more tired than he let people see, but Ron had been around since Tom was nineteen, and he saw it all, so he knew.

"Come on, old man, let me take you home; we can eat takeout and watch stupid soap operas, and I won't tell anybody you fell asleep ten minutes into the night's most interesting movie," Ron says, and he knows he's won when Tom snorts back at him.

"Okay, okay. But only if you can get the chicken from that southern place on the Sixth." 

Ron doesn't say it but he would go to Georgia to take a single piece of chicken tender if that would help in taking Ice home.

Tom goes from standing up to almost face down on the maquette in half a second, the time Ron has to imagine himself flying to Georgia and back in time for dinner and thinking about how many laws he could break or not. Tom's body hits the ground but not with his face because Ron still has some reflex and grabs him before the worst can happen.

"I'm too young for this shit, Ronnie" Tom whispers, against his chest, a lifetime of silence after.

"I know Tommy, I know. But you have to stay awake and not pass out. Then we will go home and eat all the fried chicken you want" he answers, whispering too because he's sure that if he tries to talk out loud he will start crying and he can't, not right now.

-#15: New scars. This one it's gonna be a little more consistent but that's bc it's a fic I'm trying to write since forver and i'm constantly changing parameters on what i should or shouldn't do. But it's not the interesting part of it, sorry lol.

"I can try to do that." Tom nods as if he's trying to convince himself, and Ron has to count from five to zero before moving a single muscle.

5 old scars someone put on his body and he tells the story to Maverick + the 5 Maverick was around to see heal.

I.

He got the first one when he's five and running around with a plastic plane his dad took home after his n. mission he can't talk about but makes him angry and snappy with his mom but soft with his son, expecially when he passes his big, big, hands in his hair. He's running around the garden and then he's falling on his little plane, his mom is running towards him, his dad is screaming he's an idiot and toy is broke in two pieces and Tom doesn't know what he makes him cry the most: the blood he's loosing from his knee or he precious new toy that now lies between the grass without a wing.

His dad put the plane in the bin and doesn't listen reason when his mom tries to tell him that it can be easily fix and Tom gets a scar, a small and insignificant one that he will soon forget.

(Mav kisses it, during one of nights they have free and have no hurry be anywhere if not in bed. He makes funny faces evertime Tom tells the story on how he got it and Iceman laugh along because you're cute when you make that face Pete.)

II.

The second one Pete notices, this time they're making out on 'Wood terrible couch because everybody else is outside for a barbecue and it's too hot to stay inside but kissing Pete is worth even that, is just a little as the first one, mostly covered by his hairs and when Pete's finger trace it he almost jump because he forgot he was there and it still so sensitive. Pete notices but doesn't have the time to say anything because Tom is kissing him again and Ron is calling because dinner is read and if they don't move their going to have to eat grass!

(He tells Pete, a couple of hours and beers later, that high school hasn't been as kind as he likes to remember. And he talked too many, two, languages people didn't understand and Easter Europe heritage made him a commie every day of the week. He got in a fight more against a desk than the boy but they both got suspended but nobody ever tried to mess with him, after that day.)

III.

-#22: Caughing out blood.

The next one has a funny story that makes Slider a little wild when he gets around talking about it because he has the same one in the same place! Young, dumb and a day away from deployment they drunk too much shitty alcohol they find in the mess kitchen and tried to jump over the wall on the Academy. They both failed so bad they end up with both of their forearms bleeding a little and the instructor was soooo pissed, do you remember Tommy? He talked for hours and we had the mother of all headaches but Ice cold no mistake found the way out of that situation just looking at the guy. I could have kissed you right there for that.

He washed it three times, and there's still blood on it. The blood is on his shirt, on his hands, on his skin, and uncl-his dad is lying on a hospital bed, with too many machines connected to his body and an oxygen mask covering his nose and mouth. Deployment sucked this time around; the squadron was full of navy brats who wanted to know more about everybody. At least Phoenix was there.

They were eating outside, at some place on the ocean Mav found while riding his bike at three in the morning when Ice wasn't there, and that he promised made the best risotto seafood he ever tasted. They were laughing, drinking white wine, and his arm was around Ice's shoulders in support of Mav's last disaster when the older man started to cough. Once, twice, and then a third time, until Bradley felt his own blood running cold because there was blood. Blood on the tissue and then on his shirt because Ice wasn't fast enough to cover his mouth again.

And then Mav's hands were touching Ice and looking at him like he was trying to find an answer to a question Bradley didn't even know existed.

"Breath love breath. Bradley is going to drive us to the hospital, but I need you to continue to breath like the doctor showed you." He said, "Yeah, yeah, like that. C'mon Ice, I know you can do it." 

"Baby Goose, eyes here. I need you to start the car. We will be right behind you. Then you will drive to the hospital, and I'm going to explain everything, but I need to make sure Ice is okay before that. Do you understand Brad?"

"Ye-yes, pops. Car, hospital, and then you're going to explain it to me. Okay. "

Ice's eyes were glossy and concentrated on Maverick and Maverick alone.

"It's going to be okay, Baby Goose." Ice murmured, his voice low and cracked. 

-#31: You can rest now.

The idea comes to Rooster while on a little too much of a drug after they had to set his shoulder twice because the first time it didn't set right.

Once I'm out of here, we should all go and spend the night in the den. Nothing is as warm and comfy as the den. I miss the den. Can we go to the den, pops?" he asked, almost on the point of tears.

"Yeah, Baby Goose, we can go to the den." He answers, laughing a little.

"Okay pops, thank you" he answers before snuggling a little more into his pillow, with Natasha and Jake's fingers patting his hair.

-

The den is warm and, oh, how Bradley missed this place.

"So this is the den?" a voice behind him asks, and someone whistles.

"Yeah, yeah this is the den." Bradley answers before slumping in his favourite spot, the cat already stretching her belly to let him pat her.

"It's nice." Jake says, sitting beside him.

"Yeah, every house should have one!" Fritz adds "and a cat! Who's this beautiful creature? Bradley, why are you trying to hide all the beautiful people in your life from me?"

Everybody's laughing and it's like Bradley's eight again when Carole used the den to organise him birthday parties he wasn't supposed to know anything about.

But now he's thirty-eight and his mom is dead more years than she was alive and the people around him are his family in the way his uncles are and-and Bradley wants to lie in the sun and let himself feel something that's not anger for once.

And apparently everybody has the same idea because he can finish the thought that eleven other bodies cuddle around him and he loses the count of hands that are touching, patting, and massaging him, but it feels so good that he doesn't want to be anywhere else. Lady Carole curls on his stomach, the door opens, and soft steps are followed by the smell of warm cider and biscuits. Before falling asleep, he hears Mav and Ice on the sofa, softly conversing with Halo.

#i promise i will work on the one with rooster and slider and the photos #but for now #tom iceman kazansky #whumptober wip #ron slider kerner #iceman & slider friendship #pete maverick mitchell #icemav #bradley rooster bradshaw #tom iceman kazansky & pete maverick mitchell are bradley rooster bradshaw's parents #the daggers #otp: things get old our love is gold #all the sad stuff i'm not going to tag bc i wouldn't ever finish #i'm not really sure this the best version so again i'm sorry i'm going to try to write a better one soon enough :) #hope you'll like anyeay in the meantime #bradley on drugs wants to cuddle a lot

[mobius-m-mobius]

still can't get over "our loki will be with our mobius" :')

Oh my gosh me too and it's lovely to hear from others who feel the same 🥺💖

Tbh I was trying to look at S2 with the lowest of expectations but they're making that so difficult when we keep getting glimpses and hints at Lokius being closer than ever! Their connection in S1 was already the ideal of what I look for and relate to so knowing "our Loki will be with our Mobius" is the one thing to get me to set my hesitations aside and enjoy whatever's in store! Here's to an amazing season 🥰

#thank you so much for the ask!! really can't believe we're almost there and have such amazing scenes in store #and it always makes me happy others are excited about their reunion too because no matter how many versions of them we see #ours will always be the two who fit together best <3 #the lokius fandom is small but dedicated which i adore and hope you're got an amazing week ahead that's even better after ep 1 💖💖 #ask

[artificialkids-2k23-official]

liking rwby despite some... questionable writing decisions and despite roosterteeth is like still liking a disney movie despite disney does that make sense

Oh no anon you are mistaken. I do not like RWBY. I hate RWBY. I divorced RWBY three years ago when I realized that the entire premise of their plot is "Ruby is right and morality is determined by proximity to her" and that opened my eyes to the SCORES of other bad writing choices they've made prior. Just I got custody of the cast in the divorce so those are my characters now.

I also just have a lot of merch leftover from before the divorce that I hang onto because I do still love those characters so much.

#if you want a version of rwby that has the same charming characters but much better writing and worldbuilding may i recommend dtls #we let ruby make mistakes and we have characters who are actually gay and actually trans #for a start #also ruby is best friends with gyro gearloose #he's her science mentor #i think out of all of our crossover dynamics that one is right up there with boyd and james for favorite #she likes him so so so much #oh and lucky ducks #which is clover and fenton #they're engaged #they have a daughter #they're gonna get marriiiiiiied #and they're superheroes #and super dorks #they love each other #they're stupid cute and i love them #oh there's also hazel and gyro 🤔 #and dewey and whitley and louie and oscar #blue boys and green boys and they're best friends of one another #also jaune and lucky ducks and jaune and gyro #fenton and gyro (and clover) often end up being the adults that jaune turns to for dealing with the agony of being a teenage boy #which is causing a bit of turmoil for his brothers who should be doing that but are never around #anyway suffice to say we have a lot of really good dynamics and if i listed them all we'd be here all day #OH WAIT ALSO JAMES/QROW AND JUNE #there's a WHOLE thing there #they don't have the same dynamic with may but we're getting there #it's been like two and a half months in-universe give them time #oh also yang and weiss are dating #freezerburn babyyyyyyyyyyyy #also jaune and mercury had the stupidest slow burn i've ever written but that's a long story

[thedreadpiratebonnet]

Definitely need a vid of Ed set to Here I Go Again by Whitesnake now

#ofmd #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death #if one exists please let me know #but the original album version with the better intro lol #i mean I’ll take anything but that’s the best version imho #*

[ljf613]

Okay, but Gustav x Adelaide is such a fun ship concept and I CANNOT believe that no one else has ever used it before.

#how to train your dragon #httyd #thoughts #shipping #dreamworks dragons #race to the edge #guslaide #gustav x adelaide #gustav larson #adelaide jorgenson #< using that tag for her because i'm specifically talking about if she was in the movie canon #neither of them are actually major characters in my story #a better version of our best #but i couldn't resist having them be married to each other #anyhoo gustav and snotlout are overdramatic brothers-in-law and it's great #all queued up

[ooc-miqojak]

As I start Baldur's Gate, now that it's finally had enough patches to be playable and not missing huge chunks of story, I can't help but laugh because I didn't know that Shadowheart was a cleric of Shar! My longest played/favorite Pathfinder character was an Oracle of Selune (yes we co-opted some gods from WOTC to toss back into Pathfinder, we do what we want - and Oracle is to cleric what Sorcerer is to Wizard...but better, yet), whose twin brother was a paladin of Pelor (the sun god)... and I decided to re-make that old character in BG3 since a cleric of Selune is almost the same thing as an oracle, and lo and behold my moon daughter ends up having to deal with Shar AGAIN. In another AU. (The best part is that Shadowheart's lil tiara is exactly like the one I had given Belorae in our PF campaign - she got a circlet of Cha I think it was, and had it re-tooled to look exactly like what they did for Shadowheart's circlet, just with moonstone instead of onyx.)

Anyways, did you know that when Selune and her dark twin collided in their original big battle, some of their essence smashed together, broke off, and birthed...their daughter? The Goddess of magic.

Desperate to protect the early life, Selûne tore out some of her own divine essence, though it nearly killed her, and hurled it at her sister. Selûne's essence tore through Shar, bonding with some of Shar's essence and pulling it loose. This magical energy combined to form the goddess Mystryl, the original goddess of magic.

Anyways! Best not to think too deep about how gods are born - the Greeks had some strange ideas about people being born from ideas, or sex with a swan, and all that.

tl;dr I've missed Rae, and I'm stoked to have someone in the party that will easily bounce off of her ideals, and create some conflict - even if Belorae can't ride a horse-sized wolf in this one. (Also, I have wanted a tattoo indicative of Selune for myself IRL for YEARS now, and haven't been able to find a design that looks good just about anywhere - so I was at least pleased that my BG3 Belorae could have the tattoo around her eyes! I just wish the colors were more silvery.)

Not relevant, but ironic -

Afterward, Selûne grieved the death of Tyche, her close friend and ally. In her weeping, she shed one crystalline tear, which fell to ground as a meteor in the land of Thar. It became a great and sacred artifact, called the Tear of Selûne.[63]

So WoW has copied Selune over as Elune in almost every way, even down to the Tear of Elune being a rip-off? I knew they'd basically been virtual DnD at the time the game was released, but I didn't realize just how hard they were bearing down on someone else's lore.

Anywho, I wonder if more people (ie content creators) realized this, if they'd have a better avenue for predicting where WoW's story will go - because even Shadowlands was basically ripped straight from Tabletop. Pathfinder's planar campaign book has many planes listed in it... to include a plane of order that sounds and looks a LOT like Bastion/the Kyrians, just with more clockwork stuff.

#rambling #we shoved several WOTC gods into our PF campaign since the DM knew those gods better #but I swear by Pathfinder - I'm actually still salty that BG3 is done in 5E and I'm forced to not enjoy it to its fullest #we did something kind of based on themes in Castlevania - then I realized it was basically our own version of Strahd #the moon/sun twins prevailed - but I/Belorae was the only one who didn't die even once that campaign #big tanky wolf was the best choice for my nature domain #It would be hilarious to see WOTC go after Blizzard for having barely changed one letter on many WOTC properties then using those in WoW

[tearsofsaudade]

and what if i said mike is the catra to will’s adora, huh? what then?

#-> will (adora) has accepted who he is (gay/not evil) and is trying to be the best version of himself #whereas mike (catra) is terrified of change and not being who he was always told he needed to be #mike (catra) is so afraid of losing will (adora) that he's being cruel and pushing him away #and just like in she-ra our season 5 is gonna be the season of im sorrys and 'i love you i always have' #lumax = glimbow ofc bi4bi beautiful murderous queen with her ray of sunshine bf #dont make me write a she-ra au #i dont know shit about the creelarke henry/edward stuff but that would also fit with hordak/horde prime iykyk #spinnerella and netossa are rovickie ofc #i put max as glimmer for glimbow #but maybe el would fit better #and then hopper is the queen lmao #except that it would make more sense for el to have also left the horde #hmmm #i havent watched she ra in a hot minute so even remembering names takes me a bit lmao

[b1ttle]

So it turns out our college is having us do a junior version of the SpongeBob Musical that’s shortened so much it’s only one act long…and no where in the audition or callback process did they specify this (we literally did scenes from the full version at callbacks???)

I was so excited for this role but now I’m just pissed like wtf?? I didn’t sign up (and pay money!!) to do a version of the show that’s made for 12 year olds????

They don’t say it’s a highly shortened version in any of the promotional stuff either which means they’re expecting people to pay full price for a show on the main stage that barely lasts an hour I just…….what the actual fuck??

#this had to happen with the best role I’ve ever gotten #a bunch of songs were cut and the ones that are still there are shortened so much #and badly too like they all sound like shit now??? #ur gonna make a bunch of college students do a middle school length production?? that we have to pay to be in????? #ALSO they’re literally borrowing all the sets props and costumes from another college #that the same director just finished doing the FULL VERSION of #so where the fuck is the money going?? #our cast is so much better than there’s too tbh and ur having us do the discount version?? 😭 #gonna be pissed about this forever #and we’re still rehearsing 5 days a week for 2 months?? girl the show is an hour long

[freckleslikestars]

Whilst I love the mcr cover of common people, it’s jarring listening to the original pulp version first because it feels so much more natural in an English accent.

#remembering the day I met my best friend #we were painting set for the am-dram group she and our other friend are a part of #and there was music playing across the speakers #and I’m obnoxious and find it impossible not to quiz people about the music that’s playing #seriously every song that comes on you get a ‘you know who sang this don’t you? you know what year it was? you know the album?’ #I’m genuinely so obnoxious the only person who ever actually humours me is my dad #it’s cause I like showing off my knowledge #anyway I’m quizzing her and she’s sort of given a vague ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ to all of them because she knows all the words to songs but she doesn’t #know anything about them y’know #so I’m taking great joy in furnishing her with more knowledge than she’s ever asked for #and common people comes on - the original pulp version - and she goes ‘oh I know this one #it’s mcr’ and I had this duel moment of being like ‘yes she knows a band’ and my heart dying a little inside because…oh honey no #this is pulp this is the original this is so much better #so I was like ‘kinda. they did a cover but this is the original by pulp. 1995. stellar tune from the different class album #and despite me being the most insufferable know it all #she still decided she wanted to be my friend #I think that’s pretty great

[hopelessromantic-ghost]

me: *remembers my 5 yr anniversary with james is coming up next week*

me, instantly:

#personal #i’m trying to write down our anniversary letter and i’m looking at some examples to get an idea of what o want to say #and i just. truly cannot stop the waterworks LMAOOOOO #i imagine i seek out sebastian and jack’s help for this letter and atp sebastian is prepared with tissues for me #and jack sneaks some ear plugs so he doesn’t have to listen to me cry about my love for james SKCNDNSKDN i would kill him on the spot #anyways 😭 james iff you’re reading this i love you so much these past five years have been the best so far #you inspire me so much and i always want to do better and be a better version of myself when i’m with you and I LOVE YOU AAAAAA 😭😭😭😭😭😭 #otp: attaining the impossible