#i'm just babbling at this point

[the-ventriloquizt]

I’ll be honest and say I haven’t given the Beware The Batman cartoon a fair chance but seeing as they’ve batted 0 of 2 on characterization for rare villains (Humphrey Dumpler and Professor Pyg) I don’t think I’ll be watching any more of it...

Like Humphrey I’m not so surprised about, they had to do something that wasn’t his original thing but what they did was a confusing kidnapping plot and not particularly interesting character-wise? But like, Professor Pyg...

They made Pyg a goddamn militant environmentalist? ??  ? ?? And in the tie-in comic, literally pulled the ‘oh villain has a point (this time about an oil spill that was effectively swept under the rug) but he’s threatening a kid so he has to go’. It goes beyond the typical insult of this point of view in a thing and into absurdity for an adaption of a guy who kidnaps people to turn them into kinda-dolls and has never actually had a point in his comics (at least, not with his crimes. you could argue about his appearance in Arkham City: The Order of the World, i think)

I honestly think Pyg has a theme problem, no matter where he is. His debut feels like he was supposed to be a one-time character with a hyper-specific thing he does (kidnaps people to turn them into a specific thing) and they rarely actually step away from that when they bring him back. Like I think he was supposed to be shocking and ‘too much’, which worked, but as things go he hasn’t really grown into much. His motivations are single minded and not evolving or getting varied. He has things that are tied together (circuses, surgery/butchery, artistry, dolls through mutilation??), but they’re never tied together in any interesting way, not even aesthetically most of the time. He feels almost like a extremist movie slasher (which would make sense when you consider that a lot of Batman villains are based off of horror movies), but that’s not enough to make a truly interesting recurring villain! There’s gotta be other stuff!!

#i'm just babbling at this point #complaining about a character i haven't read all the comics for again apologies guys. if i'm wrong tell me about it i'd love to change my mi #mind

[andromeda3116]

planning to make a move tonight with this guy and deeply terrified even though i know he's interested, he's made it very clear that he's interested but putting the ball in my court to decide what, if anything, i want and i've made up my mind to pursue this but like. i've been single since the obama administration because there's not, like, a person-shaped hole in my life, i don't need to be with someone to feel whole, and i have to make room in my life for another person and idk how to do this and i hate feeling vulnerable or exposed or out of control and giving someone else the power to hurt me and having to just. trust that they won't. but i kind of... accidentally already gave him that power without realizing it. i kind of... feel like this is just acknowledging something that's already started.

i am. so nervous.

like, a little giddy, a little eager, a lot anxious for no reason other than how terrified i am of major changes even when i feel like they're good ones and. and. and.

#i am having to force myself to eat #i have cleaned the whole apartment. i am shaking like a leaf. i will 100% need a glass of liquid courage. #i've already told all my family that i'm doing this so i can't chicken out. #it just feels like... it's time. we're here. we've reached this point. #he won't be over here for like four more hours and my brain is eating itself. #this is going to be comical probably i am just going to have to come out of the gate with it bc if i wait i'll chicken out. #i've been trying to come up with what to say all week but i know my mind is going to go blank and i'll end up babbling. #he knows about my issues with vulnerability. he knows about my anxiety. he knows about... me. #he'll probably pick up on the gist of it even if i'm stumbling through what i need to say #hnnngh #i feel like komi from komi can't communicate when she accidentally calls tadano #like bouncing around the room ''panic panic panic panic'' #and its been all day of this and like probably four more hours of it and ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[bonefall]

Hello Mr bone “ecological nitpick” fall. Baby beaver born in London, first in hundreds of years

Obsessed with the phrasing of this. I feel like Jigsaw just came on over the intercom to inform me that London has done one (1) good thing and that my challenge is as follows; write a post praising the rebound of the Eurasian Beaver in the UK without once describing the Thames with the words "sludge," "ooze," or "slime."

I fail and I am executed by being dunk-tanked into a big bucket of Thameswater, which sizzles the meat right off my bones

#fennelposting #bone babble #cw london #We did that over here once yknow? Threw things we didn't like into the water to make a point #I'm just saying buckingham palace isn't that far from the thames #come on guys it would be funny #the beavers would strip him clean like piranhas #come on i know you guys love trying to one up americans we only threw a symbol of monarchy into the water #you could do the real thing

[tweltchy]

Hannigram walked so Loustat could run.

#interview with the vampire #hannibal #amc interview with the vampire #amc iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #loustat #I'm obviously not discrediting Hannigram at bc I love it so much and it is still important. I just like having fun comparing the two. #Or the reverse. Whatever works bc i learned something cool today!! #hot take?? idk. im still high from that episode man. #ignore meeee lolollololololololol #this is a joke postttt I know Louis and Lestat came first!! lol #stupid #lol #mod babble #random

[kata4a]

that said, besides "colorless green," it's not clear to me that "green ideas sleep furiously" is uh, meaningfully unattested(?)

I mean, referring to abtract nouns metaphorically with color words and concrete verbs are both extremely common (cf. "purple prose," and "silver tongue," or the way someone's anger and resentment might "simmer" perhaps to the point of "boiling over") and "sleep furiously" just strikes me as straightforwardly sensible

and even "colorless green," while not specifically attested, is not out of place among oxymorons like "deafening silence" and "open secret"

I guess I think semantic attestation is just kind of different thing than structural attestation, which is itself sort of interesting

#language #I don't really have a point here I'm just #babbling

[spotforme]

'i've come to regard you as people i've met' in holoship but the thing is he already regarded them as people he'd met in the first episode (okay maybe not Kryten) he said so, i'm quite sure.. so i'm going based on that

he makes it sound like it has taken him a long time to get to that point but really he felt that way from the start, what i'm saying is he's lying

a schoker, i know, i just thought it was interesting his mind decited to take him back to the starting point

#the fact that it's an obvious ''i'm..... Unable'' moment is besides the point. i'm just looking to catalogue the concrete evidence #they could not be at the starting point anymore i say! #red dwarf #(everyone knows i know let me just babble please)

[chiscribbs]

Tfw you've drawn Donnie so many times with a stupid name tag on his forehead that drawing him without it looks wrong to your brain somehow...

#A feeling that literally only I can relate to LOL. Fr tho it's very weird - I'm too used to including that silly thing. #Legit stared at a sketch I just did for a few minutes thinking ''why does his forehead look so bare? What's missing?'' #This is what I get for trying to be funny I guess (lol). I gotta get rid of that thing at some point. Lucky Leo ditched his. #chi's babbling again #(note: for context - this is in ref to the tmnt au comp. I just don't want to tag it because it's not really relevant to it.)

[knife-filled-plushies]

Okay. So.

Once again, I'll throw out my two cents involving Bloodmoon.

I want to make it clear that I do not support the actions of Bloodmoon. They have done some horrible things and I do not think that any of the people they have targeted deserved that kind of physical and mental agony. At this point in their story that the showrunners have stretched, it is very hard to say that they're "innocent". (Seriously, the showrunners really hammered in the wrong point with that comment. At least for me, I don't think they're innocent, I just think they could've done better with their character.)

HOWEVER, I do like their character and I find them very intriguing as an antagonist. Like, seriously, they have probably the healthiest sibling relationship and the one that I find genuinely sweet. Before they do anything, they always make sure to check in with their other to see what they have to say and if they're okay with whatever they're doing. And nothing is really hidden from the other even when one of them is unavailable. It's a very genuine level of communication that you don't really see with the rest of the characters. (I'm also aware that this isn't really...Bloodmoon Bloodmoon. But the love they have for each other is very real, in my opinion.)

I can also see a lot of reasoning (not excuses, of course) for what they do. Bloodmoon has been a tool to be discarded from day one, so it would make sense that they would lash out and attempt to destroy anything that they would think would hurt them. They were also made to be violent so of course their defense mechanism would be violent. It makes sense in both a character standpoint and in terms of their programming. No one really understands them. No one understands how they operate. And since this Bloodmoon was only made from a select few memories of the original Bloodmoon, there are also bound to be some differences.

The way I'm seeing it, there is a clear lack of understanding of how Bloodmoon operates. Traditional help is confusing for them and if someone suggests it, then they probably just see it as a way for the person to get them to leave that person alone. Which they don't like. Because it shows that the person offering it without a second thought doesn't understand them.

It...also probably doesn't help that the celestial siblings gave up pretty quickly after their first try. Which, I mean, yeah? You tried the bare minimum. Of course that wasn't gonna work.

So yeah. "Traditional redemption" doesn't sit well with me regarding Bloodmoon. If they did something with them that fit more with their character and gave them development that meant something in the long run, then I would be happy. But full-on, "proper" redemption or full-on, one-dimensional villainy doesn't seem right to me either way.

#pastel babbles randomly #sun and moon show #the sun and moon show #tsams bloodmoon #sams bloodmoon #tsams #yep #rambling about this guy again #apologies if it sounds like i'm just repeating what i've said before #but i wanted to say a little something and clarify some things after that very pointed comment in the most recent episode #we're not mad that bloodmoon isn't being made “innocent” #we're mad because you brought them back for no reason

[anghraine]

In P&P, Elizabeth asks Colonel Fitzwilliam about what sort of ward Georgiana makes, with the comment, "if she has the true Darcy spirit, she may like to have her own way."

I always find this pretty funny, though it's understandable (all things considered) that Colonel Fitzwilliam doesn't, and is alarmed for Georgiana's sake. And Elizabeth definitely makes inaccurate assumptions about Georgiana, so it's not even ill-founded alarm.

But. By all accounts, Darcy and Georgiana's father was a perfectly amiable and good-natured man who got along with everyone without stepping on toes. The extreme of Darcy's autocratic tendencies isn't his father, it's very obviously Lady Catherine, who is not a Darcy at all, but a Fitzwilliam. IMO, the supposed Darcy spirit is really the Fitzwilliam spirit.

And Colonel Fitzwilliam said just a few lines earlier that he would like to get his own way as much as Darcy and simply lacks the means, and that he assumes this is true of everyone.

I think it's clear enough that this is not true of everyone, actually. I feel like, personable though he is, he's also got a pretty recognizable Fitzwilliam strain in some ways. So there's just something kind of bizarrely comical to me about this whole "Darcy spirit" exchange happening with him.

#i'm not sure whether i prefer to believe that she's got blinkers on just because she dislikes darcy so much #or that this is a stab at tact bc she's talking to a fitzwilliam #at that point in the story both seem equally possible for her #but i do think the conversation going from elizabeth talking about how much darcy likes to have his own way #to fitzwilliam being like 'well everyone does. i do for instance' #to 'the true darcy spirit' is just. lmao. #anghraine babbles #austen blogging #anghraine's headcanon #deep blogging #pride and prejudice #jane austen #elizabeth bennet #colonel fitzwilliam #fitzwilliam darcy #lady catherine de bourgh #the fitzwilliams #actually my favorite austen family. obnoxious as fuck and i love them

[bardengarde]

The current trajectory of my interests is so strange. The majority of the books I own are about history, specifically the US Civil War. My favorite TV show currently is MASH. What separates me from every other old white guy at this point?

#things that shan has pointed out to me but now I'm posting about for the laffs #now i just need to learn to like beer and grilling #I've never actually had beer- I've heard its not great #babbling bard

[kelpiemomma]

Rolling around a modern au where Ingo never got yeeted to Hisui and Akari still isn't dawn, but she does look an incredible amount like her. Akari works at gear station with the twins and bc she looks like dawn people often mistake her for the Sinnoh champ. Akari is the youngest of the gear station crew so everyone is constantly looking out for "the baby" (affectionate) Making sure the baby has her lunch, making sure the baby has all her hygiene needs, keeping the baby safe from people who want dawn's autograph or a battle. Akari left her family at the first chance, so the support of the gear station crew means everything to her. Maybe someone, a leftover from team galactic or team plasma, mistakes her for Dawn and thinks they'll get revenge on her and abduct her. Except they made a mistake, because they took gear station's baby and there will be hell to pay.

#Dad Ingo #PLA Akari #PLA #Gear station #Pokemon #Look work families are everything to me #Not just bc I'm union but when you have the BEST work family??? #It really changes how you feel going into work #Even if you're dreading a shift you know you've got support and you can handle it #I like to see gear station as one big family and ofc Akari (and Rei? Maybe her twin?) become part of it #Ingo hovers like a dad and Emmet takes them for joy rides #Laventon is a professor who is a frequent commuter and excitedly babbles on to Rei and Akari about pokemon #To the point they have to remind him he's about to miss his train #gear station family au

[queerpyracy]

the main problem with referring to real world history things in your alt world fantasy is having to ask yourself "if i make intentional changes or take artistic license, is some loser who doesn't know what the words 'alt world fantasy' mean gonna write a pseudo intellectual little internet essay about how fantasy writers are bad historians"

#because additionally i am asking myself at what point i Need to make changes/take artistic license because otherwise i just have this #direct analog for the real historical group i'm referencing in a setting where they're the only ones That direct #frankly this is a question for Future Editing Me but i should probably be thinking about it now or future me is gonna be pissed #wips tag #babbles

[almea]

The situation with the second Justice League movie is so weird because from the clips it seems like it takes place during some theoretical down time during volume 10, but volume 10 doesn't exist yet so there's this weird disconnect because between where they were the last time we saw them and where they are in the movie, they presumably reunited with all their friends and family who thought they were dead and got caught up with what's been going on while they were gone and that's all so Major and it feels so bizarre to me that we're going to see them after that happened but we don't get to actually see it happening yet.

#Annie babbles about RWBY #rwby jl spoilers #I guess lmao #It's feels so disjointed because this is the first time we got supplemental material that goes further into the future than the show itself #I'm not really criticizing them because it's kind of out of their control at this point #I'm sure no one wants volume 10 to exist more than CRWBY #This is just... plaguing me

[bonefall]

I recognize a lot of ADHD symptoms in Nightheart too.

The thinking everyone hates him is a big thing, taking rejection harder than it should be,

You're right... the Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria... I am Nightheart's therapist and I am slapping him with so many mental illnesses.

#ALSO FOR THE RECORD I DONT HAVE BPD #I just have people I love who do #And take a sincere and adoring interest in how their minds work #I do have ADHD though. Recently diagnosed. #But I've known my entire life. #But anyhow #I just like BPD I think it's neat. It reminds me of people I love. And loved. It's so demonized and I hope that I can help ppl understand #It's just an emotional regulation disorder. There is no 'bad person' disease. #People with BPD can be good or bad. #Btw I plan to do this with NPD too at some point. I did a leetle research and know where to start now #But I haven't picked a cat to get it #And I have personal close experience with BPD so like. That's why it comes up so much. I feel confident in how I portray it #And I get super good feedback from people who have BPD so I think I'm doing good #Also inside joke lmao; Bird Perception Disorder #Because for SOME REASON I keep using birds as a BPD metaphor #And partner found that hilarious #The birds are being perceived #bone babble

[loverlylight]

Oooh, dunno if this has been mentioned before, but there's the whole connection between Rose and John's relationship and Polaris, right? And when John thought he'd lost Rose, because of the unexpected change in hemispheres, when he looked to the stars he was unable to see Polaris.

Also, retroactively, he had been in the Southern Hemisphere, and therefore unable to see Polaris, for a year or so before going to New York, both because of Rose and where he met her.

#my mind is an odd place #pulp musicals spoilers #look it's late at night the cohesion of my thoughts are flimsy so I hope this makes sense but just!!! These musicals are just so good #also while I'm drowsy and babbling at some point I gotta dig into all the musical motifs/leit motifs #because there are so many and they weave together in such a beautiful way #seriously both on a story front and a music front they're just so so good #anyway I have work tomorrow so I really should sleep goodnight

[spekktors]

I'm tempted to blacklist Kipperlilly Copperkettle because people are so goddamn annoying about her

#babbling #which is a shame because i find her to be an interesting characted and a compelling villain #but I'm neither interested in pretending she's evil incarnate nor secretly right and incredibly sympathetic #when she's neither of those things. like explicitly in text neither of those things #she's a teenager predisposed to anger being influenced by a corrupted deity to turn her worst impulses up to 11 #that's interesting! that's compelling!! but who she was before was neither irredeemably evil nor overly sympathetic #she was just a flawed petty child #whose misplaced anger is being weaponized by something so much bigger than her #i probably won't do it because she's such a central character at this point that it would just decimate the fhjy tags #and there's a lot of good stuff in there too #but jfc