#ship: delusions of grandeur

[ssozo]

IT'S OFFICIAL! VOLO AND I ARE GETTING MARRIED ON MAY 1ST, OUR ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY. AND YOU'RE INVITED!

#ozo mumbles #ship: delusions of grandeur #selfship #self ship #self shipping #fictional other #AAAA IM GETTING SO GIDDY THINKING ABOUT IT !!!!

[demobatman]

have we considered steddie scissorhands.....

#i am looking #have to get all of my delusions of grandeur out before volume 2 #stranger things #stranger things season 4 #eddie munson #steve harrington #steddie #st s4 v2 #ship art

[cbartonscoffee]

Things I noticed or simply liked while watching "The Star Beast" again:

Donna was inventing names for the mother of the random transphobic kid in her school days. "'Cause I remember she had lots of names at school. And I should know. I invented 'em."

This bit: "It is not my fault I lost my job" Sylvia looks at her. "Alright, it is my fault. But still." Coffee cup anyone?

Wilf having stopped talking about anything alien related in case it triggered Donna's memories.

"Who are you? What's your name?" "I'm just passing by."

"Gave away that lottery money." "Why?" "Because. (...) Just felt like the kind of thing he would do."

The Meep talking smugly in his throne. The Doctor: "I name this ship the Delusions of Grandeur."

The Doctor turning his head towards Donna and starting to think aloud and explain what's happening like old times.

Sylvia and Rose are holding each other in the elevator. And holding hands while they walk to the TARDIS at the end.

It's been said but, Donna calling The Doctor by his name unconsciously.

The Doctor cracking his fingers before starting to run around pressing buttons. And later on Donna doing the same before helping him.

The Doctor goes towards the glass raising his hands when the regeneration energy starts as if they wants to hold Donna while this is happening.

The Doctor knowing Donna's primary concern as she was dying was Rose and reassuring her that she was safe.

Sylvia's highest compliment is saying that Wilf would be proud.

Shaun and Rose look like they want to go into the TARDIS to help Donna. Meanwhile Sylvia is just tired and done. "I said so!"

#doctor who #doctor who spoilers #the star beast #60th anniversary specials #the doctor #fourteenth doctor #donna noble #rose noble #sylvia noble #shaun temple #wilfred mott #the tardis #the meep

[wannaeatramyeon]

The Way of the Househusband: Lookism and HTF hc

You, the working spouse. Them, trying to be the best malewife.

(Making up for my Eli crap).

Throws money at the problem

Look. They did not work their lil bussy off to build up an empire then to spend it all day looking after the household. You will be employing help around the house, that is non-negotiable.

Expect a half burnt, hand made lunch most days though. It's the thought that counts, you tell yourself as you swallow down a lump of charcoal.

+ Eugene

+ Goo Kim

This idiot. Tries his best until he gets bored. And he gets bored very easily.

Half mopped kitchen, half made bed. Everything he does is done well until he just. Nah. Cannot be bothered anymore.

Good job you have a routine cleaning service and whatever other help you need as he takes instead the title of trophy husband.

Greets you coming home like an overexcited puppy. Lord bless him with some other social groups and hobbies so he doesn't rely completely on you for all his interaction needs.

+ Samuel Seo

If our Sammy isn't in therapy already, then get him in. Starve if you have to, just get him on his journey.

There is no way this man would be happy just being a househusband with his inferiority complex, slight delusions of grandeur and ambition.

When he eventually comes to terms with it, will always have little side projects going on to keep his inferiority/superiority at bay.

Likely one of those bastards that power trips from heading up some sort of Househusband/housewife social group, PTA, or on the board of a charity (he's in it for the power, not the cause) in his spare time.

Natural born homemaker

Natural may be a stretch for some of these boys.

Whether by choice or as a victim of circumstance, they have had to pick up very quickly how to be completely self sufficient. So stepping into house husband role? Easy!

+ Jace Park, Warren Chae, Jibeom Kwak, Daniel Park, Hudson Ahn, Baek Seongjun

+ Eli Jang

Oh my god. There is nothing that he loves more than being a househusband.

Never in his wildest dreams thought he would end up in this position.

Creating a loving home for you and Yenna, being the caretaker and provider. By far the best and most favourite role he has undertaken.

Joins in on the gossip at the school gates, with the other parents fawning over him. Melting hearts when Yenna toddles out and gives her dad a smooch.

Makes the absolute bento lunch bar none. Wakes up at the crack of dawn, practically leaping out of bed to make something delicious, healthy and cute for you and Yenna.

+ Johan Seong

Clueless vibes but that is absolutely wrong.

With his mother and leaving home from a young age, he has absolutely had to be self-sufficient.

In addition to taking care of two dogs too, this guy knows how to run a household and how to run it with 100% efficiency.

Knows the best time to visit the market for the freshest meat and veg to cook dinner. Also will visit 10+ stores to make sure he gets the best deal for his money. It's a matter of pride.

+ Ji Yeonwoo

Never had to really lift a finger around the home, instead dedicating all his time to studying. Vibes that his father also thinks housework is woman's work.

But not this guy! Whatever you need, he will make sure he fulfils it to the best of his abilities.

Study scheduling skills carry over to running the household. Runs an extremely tight ship, and meticulously plans everything. You want a doctor appointment? Dentist? Plumber. He is ON it.

In between sessions of Kyokushin Karate training of course.

+ Han Wangguk

Um hello? Does this even need explaining? It just fits.

Forced into being the carer and head of the household from a young age after his home life completely went to shit. Looked after Gyeoul to the best of his ability until he couldn't. Tried to be the best big bro/father figure since his stint in juvie.

Absolutely perfect as a househusband. Nothing to fault.

Will spoil you too. Small gifts he has come across that reminds him of you - a snack you like from the store, booking movie tickets for a lil date night together, a book he thinks you'd be interested in.

Perfection.

Clueless idiot tries their best

It's a 50/50 chance whether you will have a home and a husband to return to at the end of a day. It's also a 50/50 chance whether your home made lunch will give you food poisoning.

Sure, it's gotten better the longer they've been at it, but you're still wary. Especially since they have also gotten better at hiding any messes they cause too.

You can never stay mad though, especially when they get so cute when they're frustrated at having failed you as a househusband. Which is complete nonsense, by the way.

+ Vin Jin, Jihan Kwak, Jay Hong

+ Vasco Tabasco

How can this category exist without our resident cinnamon roll?

Fortunately for him, Jace has added himself onto Vasco's speed dial. Unfortunately for Jace, he gets 20+ calls and frantic messages a day asking how to get things done.

Nonsense includes asking how to revert the clothes after accidentally dying them pink. Can he put out a frying pan oil fire with water. How burnt can something be before someone will likely get food poisoning.

It gets better over time. Lucky for you and lucky for Jace.

COMPLETE househusband Tatsu vibes. Everyone is terrified of Vasco, intimidated by his thuggish looks and tattoos. (Until they find out he is the biggest sweetheart and himbo ever.)

+ Ryuhei Kuroda

Relishes being a househusband! Like a silly little roleplay and doesn't get tired of it. After, all it took him so long to find someone that keeps the interest of Ryuhei and lil Ryuhei.

A shameless flirt with the ajummas and all the other housewives. Getting the best gossip, the best offers and deals, best tips.

Unfortunately, his attention span is short. Listens with good intentions, then starts daydreaming about when you get home and how he will ravish you.

In the end, he falls short in some aspects of being a househusband, but will make it up to you in the bedroom.

Bulldozes their way forward until they are Househusband Extraordinaire

You cannot fault them for their effort.

Initially a struggle at first for them to come to terms with being a househusband. Look at this list for crying out loud. Consisting of killers and fighters and crime bosses.

But if they commit, they're going to give it all. Their tenacity means they will absolutely get things done. Every time they fail, they will keep trying over and over again. Whether that's to make you happy or for their own pride, they will keep going until it is perfected.

+ Xiaolong, Zack Lee, Xiaolong, Sinu Han, Seong Taehoon, Kim Munseong

+ Gun Park

There is nothing Gun Park cannot do if he sets his mind to it. That includes whatever the hell is his life right now.

Which he doesn't mind, per se. It's just... unexpected.

And he never thought there would ever be anything in his life that matches the thrill of fighting to the death.

But getting the pick of fresh fruit and veg when he's first at the farmer's market? Beating some old ajumma (almost literally) to grab the best head of lettuce? Unveiling your dinner like he used to with his masterpiece?

Ok. It's not bad. He'll still sneak off to beat up minors when he has spare time though.

+ DG/James Lee

Drops the K-pop persona pretty damn quick, reverting back to James Lee.

Because can you imagine how little he would be able to get done if people saw DG around trying to run errands?

But honestly. Look at him. This man, like Gun, does not have a domestic bone in his body.

He's not a genius for nothing though.

Dishwasher? Washing machine? Tumble dryer? How to iron in the most efficient way? He will work it out, don't worry.

+ Jake Kim

Anything, anything to make you happy.

As the Big Deal no.1, worrying about the street running smoothly is only his problem in so far as the protecting, the fighting, the money.

Clothes used to just turn up washed and ironed. Would live on a diet of ramen or just eating at one of the restaurants.

Jake is not initially cut out for being a househusband... But he learns quickly.

Eagerly gets to any household chores and errands with gusto. Sometimes even recruiting the Big Deal boys to help out when things get a little too hectic and out of hand.

#lookism #lookism hc #lookism x reader #viral hit #how to fight #viral hit headcanons #how to fight headcanons #viral hit x reader #how to fight x reader #goo kim x reader #samuel seo x reader #eli jang x reader #johan seong x reader #ji yeonwoo x reader #han wangguk x reader #vasco x reader #ryuhei kuroda x reader #ryuhei x reader #euntae lee x reader #gun park x reader #dg x reader #james lee x reader #wannaeatramyeon

[inbarfink]

The funny thing about Zim taking over Tak’s Ship in ‘Dibship Rising’ is that he does so by activating some sort of protocol that makes it obey the Irken Empire

And the thing is that Zim is not the ‘Irken Empire’. He’s an exile from the Empire with delusions of grandeur, and Tak knows this

And therefore Tak’s Ship knows it. 

But Dib is, like, the one person in the universe who sees Zim as a legitimate arm of the Irken Empire, and now he uploaded his mind into the Ship.

And that’s the only reason Zim was able to take it over. 

#invader zim #iz #zim #dib membrane #invader zim dib #iz dib #dib iz #dib invader zim #iz dib membrane #zim iz #iz zim #zim invader zim #invader zim iz #invader zim zim #tak iz #tak invader zim #invader tak #iz tak #invader zim tak

[antianakin]

@assaultmech71 I'm putting this in a separate post because it IS a little off topic and that particular post is becoming fairly long and unwieldy as it is.

Part of my dislike of Luxsoka (and Lux in general) stems from my dislike of the episode he's introduced in. Heroes on Both Sides is supposed to show us that there's genuinely good people with legitimate grievances on the Separatist side and that Ahsoka is like... being kind-of ignorant by assuming all of the Separatists are evil assholes. However this is done SO SO BADLY the entire way through. I've talked about Mina Bonteri's whole sob story about her husband on some sort of base that got attacked by the clones and how unbelievable it is that the clones apparently just attacked an innocent base full of innocent people or something. There's NO WAY that Mina's husband wasn't involved in something either war-related or just sketchy and evil.

Lux on the other hand is sitting there being paralleled with Ahsoka where they're supposed to recognize that their lack of knowledge of the other side has caused them to be a little prejudiced towards each other. But while Lux has never actually met any Jedi and is making his entire opinion based on a lot of propaganda, Ahsoka HAS met Separatists, they just come in the form of military generals usually. Lux I think specifies "any Separatists who AREN'T military leaders" which is pretty unfair because those military personnel are STILL military leaders and effectively Ahsoka's counterpoint within the Separatist organization. Ahsoka has seen these people who claim to fight on behalf of the Separatist government do some absolutely heinous shit to actual innocent civilians (she's there for the incident with the Lurmens, the Blue Shadow Virus, Ryloth, and the Holocron Heist arc at this point). Ahsoka has genuine evidence to believe that the Separatists are, at best, ignorant of what's being done in their name, and at worst complicit in these actions being perpetrated by their military. Ahsoka isn't naive or ignorant the way Lux is, it's not a fair comparison. So their entire connection here is based on what amounts to a lie.

Lux also literally gives Ahsoka a once over when she bandies his own words back at him and asks him if she looks evil, which is juvenile and gross. And yes, he IS juvenile and Ahsoka does call him out on it a little, but still. It's not exactly a GREAT first impression here.

So basically a large part of the reason I hate him is because his entire introduction is just really really stupid and he represents this radically unfair perspective on the Jedi at this point just to make a point that isn't even ENTIRELY true.

Then we come to their second meeting where the whole episode ends with them saying they were a "good team" except that Lux fucks up approximately 20 different times and Ahsoka has to keep saving his ass and doing all the work. And Lux also betrays her like 4-5 separate times, he slaps her ass and acts like a misogynist to keep up an act with DEATH WATCH, apparently doesn't know or just doesn't care that Death Watch are literal terrorists, and is just overall completely awful and useless the whole time. They're not a good team, he's just a massive fuck up with delusions of grandeur who Ahsoka has to keep bailing out of danger over and over again.

He's better by their third meeting during the Onderon arc, but by then whatever feelings he may have had for Ahsoka seem to have faded and he's got a new girlfriend he's focused on and Ahsoka ultimately lets him go. But she's also JEALOUS of Steela for a while and it's impossible to figure out what she's even jealous OF. Like babygirl, I'm so frustrated with you right now, but you can STILL do better than Lux Bonteri. At least she decides to just move on by the end and we never see him again.

So yeah, Lux is a terrible person, a terrible love interest for Ahsoka, and Luxsoka is a fuck awful ship and I'm just so glad it got abandoned before it actually went anywhere and never came back.

#star wars #ahsoka tano #the clone wars #tcw #star wars the clone wars #sw tcw #anti lux bonteri #lux bonteri critical #anti luxsoka #luxsoka critical

[thegreymoon]

The Story of Minglan

I am so upset about Buwei's death but very curious about what is coming next. Since this is a c-drama and they can't have an immoral Emperor on the throne as an endgame, I suppose that the Yong family is going down one way or another. Let's hope they take the Qi household with them, especially Princess Pingning.

Team Prince Yan!

***

Yawn.

My lack of sympathy for this woman and her whole family cannot be overstated.

***

Did any of you care whether other people lived or died?

Fuck you both.

And the best part is that his stupid ass thought that if he was to whine in front of the Emperor about Minglan, this useless man would grant him the marriage 🤣🤣

***

He has already forgotten that she beat Buwei to death because of him, smh, and they are back to business as usual.

Human lives literally mean nothing to either of them. I wouldn't be able to forgive her if she murdered a pet hamster to hurt me, let alone a whole human being 😡😡

***

Hopefully, he will be lucky enough not to meet you in his next life.

***

Oh, boo-hoo.

How terrible for your mother and you that your delusions of grandeur are just that. Delusions. Classism is hell of a drug.

I hope you get squashed.

***

Do it!! Please! Make my day!!

***

LMAO, WHAT HARMONIOUS RELATIONSHIP?

You have literally had people raped and kidnapped, and very likely murdered. And here you are, threatening to murder more. The cognitive dissonance, I cannot 🤣🤣

***

Oh, yes, your daughter is going to be so happy in this marriage 🙄

Sooooooo happy!! Everything a loving parent would want for their child 🙄🙄

They are all literally insane. Unlimited power and wealth have rotted their brains.

***

That this needs to be spelled out for him is just 🤯🤯

And, like, we don't even go as far as Consort Yong. His own shitty mother could and would do this if he was to somehow elope with Minglan. This is also why there is absolutely no chance the Sheng family would allow this marriage to happen without the Duke and Duchess of Qi fully onboard and Minglan would never do anything that would jeopardise her entire family, such as run off with him without their permission.

***

MTE, Qi Heng, I fully agree with you on this.

Why anyone would bother to even cross the street for your worthless ass, let alone bloody their hands to get you, is very much beyond me.

***

LMAO, YOU ARE A USELESS MOTHER!

He is not a "thing", he is a whole human and you are talking about marriage here, an entwining of lives. How happy is she going to be, married to a man who resents her? Who married her only because you threatened to kill his parents and the woman he loves? Are you serious? OK, I can buy that an endlessly indulged princess will have the brain power and impulse control of a toddler and may not be able to see the full consequences of this, but what is your excuse? Moreover, what is your husband's excuse? All of you have worms for brains.

***

I'VE BEEN SAYING!!

Why must you make me agree with Qi Heng, smh?

Anyway, I can't wait to watch Zhu Yilong in something else. No love for this particular character but he's really fantastic, very subtle and very expressive.

***

Oh, thank god.

Hopefully, now Minglan can let him go and go back to being her usual intelligent self. This doomed side ship has been getting on my last nerve.

***

What the absolute fuck are you talking about, Gu Tingye? I thought you were supposed to be smart and looking out for Minglan!

Yes, please kidnap a fucking Imperial princess and see how well that works out both for the House of Qi and Sheng!

Why is everyone stupid all of a sudden?

***

How is Yuanruo the one speaking common sense all of a sudden?

Gu Tingye, what the fuck is wrong with you?

#the story of minglan #tsoml spoilers #tsoml ep28

[starleska]

introducing the hot new cursed DHMIS crackship: LoveBird/Warnold! (Warren x Shrignold)

shout out to the vastly talented artists who have already taken to drawing this abomination of a ship, you are doing the lord’s work 😂 this has been edited as the lovely @oats-n-goats came up with the brilliant ‘LoveBird’ ship name! i think that one sounds much nicer 😉 now, let’s get down to brass tacks. why?! you scream. why would you put these two together?! well, it’s hilarious. sometimes that’s all you need. but let’s consider a scenario in which these two characters who have never met might actually develop some sort of affection for one another. on the one hand, we have Shrignold: a prominent member of a love cult whose belief in his god and his fellow cult members is so strong, he has absolutely no problem tormenting and attempting to brainwash those he feels must follow his way of life. on the other hand, we have Warren: a pathetic, antisocial worm with delusions of grandeur and serious interpersonal problems which manifest in his overbearing attitude towards those who he considers his friends - even though his friendships are terribly one-sided.  i unironically think these two would complete each other in their delightful awfulness. Shrignold believes firmly in the notion of finding a ‘Special One’, and is all about commitment. Warren isn’t too far off in his own views - he believes that you must treat your friends in a very particular way, and any deviation from this behaviour is cause for punishment and scorn. i think that Warren is so deliriously needy for any kind of affection, and Shrignold is so hooked on the idea of a devoted significant other, that the two would fall together either in a genuinely loving, passionate relationship...or a toxic, co-dependent mess, depending on what you like 😉 those are my thoughts...run with them as you wish 🔥💖

#please don't take this too seriously i just love a good crackship and the art is great #dhmis lovebird #lovebird #warnold #don't hug me i'm scared #dhmis #don't hug me i'm scared spoilers #dhmis spoilers #shrignold the butterfly #warren the eagle #dhmis shrignold #dhmis warren #starleskatalks

[darkpastelpurple]

i always liked to think of the dalek emperor in the parting of ways as not the emperor during the time war.

I liked to think of him as an ordinary ship commander, billions of those during the time war, certainly

but his ship survived through happenstance, and him being the commander, managed to be the first dalek with delusions of grandeur since the Creator of all daleks.

elevated to emperor and deciding he will be able to kill the god who stood against them. the devil of all daleks

and then failing spectacularly

it also makes the cult of skaro funnier because they're like "you met the emperor?!?!" in awe and it's not their emperor it was some fuckin nerd they were way above in rank and shit

#daleks #doctor who #the parting of the ways #the parting of ways #the doctor #the ninth doctor #the 9th doctor #rose tyler #captain jack harkness #russell t davies #christopher eccleston #john barrowman #billie piper

[clairedelune-13]

“I name this ship “The Delusions of Grandeur”.”

Ok but that sounded like Crowley mocking someone.

#the star beast #fourteenth doctor #anthony j crowley #sarcastic fuckers 😂 #good omens #doctor who

[f0point5]

if danny ric didn’t exist (or like, had to quite f1 for some reason) who would you want in the second rb seat?

Right now, I’m going to go wild and say Nico Hulkenberg. Stay with me here.

He’s better than that Haas. In a rocket ship, I believe he would pick up some good points. He knows how to work with what he’s got so he’s going to work with the car Red Bull give him rather than complain. He’s consistent, he’s used to his job being “score points”, so he won’t get delusions of grandeur. He’s far enough away from Max to not be an issue, he would be grateful enough for a car that lasts more than 3 laps on one set of tyres so he will not be too uppity, and I think he’d be a decent back up.

He will also only want a couple more years in the sport, which goes nicely because in 2026 I would retire him to give the seat to Liam Lawson/an RB up and comer. I say Liam because he’s looking like the one right now but that may change. But I think 2026 would be a good time for a rookie back in Red Bull, ready to learn from Max in preparation to take over when he retires. (I would LOVE if it was Kimi Antonelli SOMEONE steal the kid from Merc Helmut Marko I am counting on you grandpa give me ONE FINAL GOLDEN BOY).

But yeah so, Hulk till ‘26 and then new RB rookie for the new era

#max verstappen #f1 #formula 1 #daniel ricciardo #red bull racing #nico hulkenberg

[ssozo]

i will not ask you where you came from / i will not ask you, neither should you / honey just put your sweet lips on my lips / we should just kiss like real people do

thank you everyone for attending volo and i's wedding! the rest of the day will be a slow queue of art of him, alongside any fics that ive written. feel free to mingle, eat a snack, and dance with us to our playlist!

#ozo mumbles #ship: delusions of grandeur #si: matli #selfship #self ship

[jackshade21]

Revisiting Transformers Beast Wars

I loved Beast Wars as a kid and after talking with a friend of mine I started a re-watch of the series since I hadn't seen it since I was like 7.

The CG and sets are terrible in that way that only early 90s CG can be, which is to say it was amazing for the time but is put to shame by today's standards but that adds to the charm.

Some of the dialogue is kinda hokey but it was a kid's show and some of it is still pretty great. It can get irritating with a third of Megatron's lines being "YEEESSSSS" at first but then it starts to grow on you and you'll find yourself doing it.

But the writing and character development is great. With a veteran Star Trek writer, veteran Transformers G1 and G2 comic writer, the co-creator of Wolverine and Swamp Thing, and the co-creator of Marvel's Blade and DC's Teen Titans on the writing team it's hardly a surprise. Unlike a lot of other things I loved as a child the writing really holds up and its still incredibly entertaining. I mean Beast Wars isn't called the series that saved the Transformers franchise for nothing.

I love that the Maximals are explorers, that Optimus Primal is first and foremost a researcher and not a military leader. They were each chosen for a set of skills for an exploration mission that happened to also be useful in the impromptu war they find themselves in.

I love that the Predacon crew are essentially space pirates and thieves that just happened to steal the magic golden disks from Cybertron that started the whole thing. They're bumbling and the reason for that is that they're shitty space pirates with delusions of grandeur.

Then there are my favorite characters. Rattrap and Dinobot.

Dinobot, former Predacon turned Maximal, is the veteran warrior with a penchant for spouting Shakespeare-esque monologues who took the form of a velociraptor. He challenges Megatron for leadership like 2 seconds after being introduced cause he thinks Megatron is an idiot. Gets his ass handed to him and then leaves to join the good guys...as leader, gets his ass handed to him again but joins them anyway. He is gruff. He is violent. He is sometimes at odds with the Maximal way of doing things. But he has his honor and you know where he stands.

And of course Rattrap, a sarcastic wise ass talented in espionage, demolitions and marksmanship with a penchant for getting into places he isn't supposed to and huge Little Shit Energy. He chooses a rat as his beast form because they're survivalists, small, sneaky and again can get into places they aren't supposed to be. He has problems with authority. He questions orders. He's irreverent and focuses on survival. He can be self-centered but when the chips are down you can count on him to have your back.

Honestly, rewatching it has led me to discover that I have a type when it comes to favorite characters cause if I were to compare him to any other fictional character it would be Rocket Raccoon. Right down to the New York/Jersey accent.

Side Note: Imagine my absolute delight discovering that Rattrap and Dinobot are shipped together often and in a Enemies to Lovers type way. Plus, guuurrrllll that size difference tho. (Gimme them fanfic suggestions >.>)

#transformers #beastmode #transformers beast wars #beast wars #optimus primal #Rattrap #Megatron #Dinobot #Dinotrap #Maximals #Predacons #long post

[viridiave]

Wailing Souls

so I had a really mean thought. What if the 8path 1 gang fell to Galdera in the last battle

gonna do a funky and list them in the order of the gods that fell during the fight against Vide according to 8path 2

LONG list of HCs under the cut

8 - TRESSA COLZIONE (Honesty, Prosperity, and the Undying) - Contract-maker with deadly binding deals that ruin lives and punish those amassing fortune - Has the inexplicable ability to show up only when people are in need of the deals she offers - and many people happen to be in need of that - Is also a haunter of ships. At times she is the cause of tempests on the high seas - new ship graveyards have appeared because of her boredom - Deterrents: Marina and Olneo Colzione ○ Perhaps the easiest of the Travelers to reach out to given both her unstable nature and the fact that she was the youngest and first out of all of them to die, but chasing her down is a challenge comparable to Therion's ordeal

7 - THERION (Unreachable Conquest) - Steals more than just material objects now. Lost souls, lost people, lost nations are now part of the hoard - Also comes and goes in the dead of the night - the locations that he is known to have stolen from are all inflicted with nasty insomnia - Specifically avoids high places like the Highlands and the Cliftlands - particularly its highroads. Some are rescued by his hand should they fall by accident (or on purpose) - Deterrent: None, later Tressa Colzione ○ Lingering distrust in the Ravus household - his last meaningful connection before dying to Galdera, other than the Travelers - meant that Therion could not be reached, unless any one of the other Travelers were recovered first as they are the only people he truly trusts with his life. Even if the other Travelers are the ones to reach out to him, he will do his utmost to resist and uh - good luck trying to even catch him

6 - H'AANIT (Wrath of the Successors) - Haunter of the woods and progenitor of monsters - may or may not be cultivating entirely new species that thrive on blood - May or may not be wearing Linde's skin. If the skin is touched without permission, she goes on a rampage. - Is the reason boss monsters like the Devourers of Man and Beast and Direwolves prowl around more often - Deterrent: Z'aanta ○ Like Cyrus, the hardest part about reaching H'aanit is surviving her onslaught - the beasts that rampage the lands are things that even Z'aanta has trouble facing alone. The lack of Linde doesn't help matters.

5 - PRIMROSE AZELHART (Delusions of Grandeur) - Siren-like figure who operates in the shadows to seduce people to their cause; binds generational curses to her victims - Operates under a harmless guise like Ophilia - unlike Ophilia, doesn't have any reservations regarding recruitment methods - Haunts brothels and taverns out of a twisted sense of sympathy for the workers - Deterrent: Revello Forsythe ○ In spite of Primrose's bleak ending she still at least has past connections to ground her - but it will take a LOT of convincing, so sometimes Revello doesn't act alone in trying to reach out to her. Arianna and Odette are along for the ride when the situation is particularly dire

4 - OLBERIC EISENBERG (Isolation in Quiet Suffering) - Holes himself away inside a mountain and becomes an immortal legend that arises only when challengers approach his domain - Likely the most sane out of all of them, but is so isolated and consumed with grief that you wouldn't really be able to tell the difference - Never acts unless provoked to the point of fury. WOULD be the least harmful out of all of them if not for his strength - Deterrents: Erhardt and Philip ○ Erhardt is to Olberic as Odette is to Cyrus - being one of the only people who really understand Olberic to his core. The problem with this is the tragedies that Erhardt himself has caused, and with Olberic's sense of loss being elevated to dangerous extremes, balancing this out with Philip representing the future he swore to protect is pretty much his best bet at reaching him

3 - ALFYN GREENGRASS (Salvation and Guilt) - Silent plaguemaster who spreads poison and ills like a walking pandora's box among the lands - Comes and goes in the dead of the night. He has no set pattern for this, sometimes entire towns just end up rotting overnight - The poisons he sets also fuck up the local environment, and unlike Cyrus he can hide his presence - so he ends up being more of a pain to deal with - Deterrent: Zeph ○ Zeph COULD reach Alfyn fairly easily given Alfyn's core nature being masked over rather than overwritten entirely. The problem is actually managing to find Alfyn before he poisons a town to death, and even then you'd have to deal with his overriding guilt first

2 - CYRUS ALBRIGHT (Reckoning with the Last Stand) - Obscures information through uncontrollable bursts of magic, destroying histories through unbridled destruction - Best treated as a walking natural calamity. Nobody knows how he sustains himself in there. - An incomprehensible babbling mess - sometimes he quotes From The Far Reaches of Hell and other hellish tomes and sometimes it's just apologies - Deterrent: Odette ○ Outside of the other Travelers, Odette is the sole person who understands how Cyrus works. The most difficult part about reaching Cyrus is surviving the calamities he brings

1- OPHILIA CLEMENT (Alone, alone, alone) - Mindt-like figure who guides the lost and weary into their arms so they can spread Galdera's influence further - Basically Ceraphina again? Then again Ceraphina is how deadly cults work - Alongside Primrose is the one to operate under a guise, they probably work together sometimes to poison the Order of the Sacred Flame from the inside - Deterrent: Lianna Clement ○ Very much the only person who can reach her at this low point, but the most that the Deterrents can do is minimize their influence over their victims by taking advantage of their slight lapses of judgment ○ Lianna herself still being in recovery after the events of Ophilia 4 needs a lot of time bring Ophilia back. Her sympathizing somewhat with the Traveler's conditions doesn't help despite her inherent distaste for what they have become ○ Ophilia being the last of the Travelers to be killed also poses a hard challenge for anyone trying to reach her given all she has witnessed and gone through while inside the Gate of Finis

#octopath #octopath traveler #ophilia clement #cyrus albright #tressa colzione #olberic eisenberg #primrose azelhart #alfyn greengrass #octopath therion #octopath h'aanit #discussed this with jae once and it came out a lot angstier than expected #designs for them being messed up and in despair would be balling ngl #...one day one day maybe

[larsisfrommars]

Wild Wild Reviews

The Night Of The Deadly Bed

Overall Score

Story: 4/5

Dame: 4.5/5

Villain: 4/5

Gadgets: 5/5

Disguises: 4/5

Bonus Points: Gay Subtext: 2.5/5

The Yikes Dated Factor: 0/-5

Score: 25/25

Tier: S (100%)

Previous Review

FULL REVIEW UNDER THE CUT

The Story

This episode is up there as far as quality, it almost feels as though THIS should’ve been the pilot as opposed to TNOT Inferno. It’s finally got all of its limbs (meaning Artemus has his proper characterization which is what was missing in the pilot) and doesn’t have the same racist trappings as the previous installation. All the major elements pay off, the mystery isn’t sloppy, the villain and lady of the week are well written. The biggest drawback is that stupid unnecessarily complex death trap that gave the episode its name. Why does the hotel even have that?!Why didn’t Jim get sedated enough for that to even be an issue?! It’s so dumb that it borders on Batman series levels of comically avoidable. It’s just not quite a 5, gotta reserve that for the best of the best.

The Dame

Our lady of the week is Barbara Luna! Whom I know as Marlena from the Star Trek TOS episode Mirror Mirror!

Say it with my y’all, I. Love. Gatita!! She’s so awesome and one of the best female characters this show has ever had. Which is WILD cuz we’re like 2 episodes in and there’s a 102 more. She’s intelligent and brave, she’s got her own personality and motivations. She is working for the baddie to protect her people who’ve been enslaved by him. She even fights back in her own way by giving his girlfriend food when he’s trying to starve her, not to mention attacking one of the guards! The relationship she develops with Jim feels genuine and relatively well developed. The only reason she’s not getting a perfect 5 is because she gets treated and written as “exotic” in the first half of the episode but that’s not a fault of her as a character.

The Villain

Our villain of the week is played by JD Connor!

What a great and hateable villain, he is cruel to women and minorities, he’s got an overdeveloped sense of class, and he’s got delusions of grandeur. Also he’s idea of a train killing train to take over the US with is extremely unhinged and silly which is exactly what we need in our Wild Wild West villains. He’s not perfect though. He lacks a certain uniqueness that would have him stand out amongst other egotistical traitors and invading powers that frequently pop up in this show.

The Gadgets

They knocked it out of the park again with the gadgets this episode. Particularly the explosive coal which was such a fun Chekov’s Gun this episode, with satisfying high stakes pay off. We also see our good friend knock out gas featured, and the first but not the last instance of Artie accidentally getting KOed by his own invention lol. The ring was also a neat gimmick and I’m kinda disappointed we don’t really get to see it again.

The Disguise

Artemus’s disguise in this episode was fun, well thought out, and useful. He successfully infiltrated the labor camp where Jim and Gatita’s village were being held. He used it (and a drunken rendition of one of my fav Spanish folk songs “Malagueña Salerosa”) to rescue Jim, and he also exploited it as means to start a revolt while Jim planted the bombs! The only reason it’s not a 5 out of 5 is because he didn’t really do a specific character, he was just trying to blend in which isn’t as insane or enjoyable as his more fleshed out personas.

The Gay Subtext

(Don’t ship it? Skip it!)

A joke could be made about Artemus giving Jim a specially made ring and to “wear it in good health”. There’s also a moment where Gatita feels like she could be making a joke about Jim being bi when she talks about “looking for a girl, now you’re looking for a man” which I think is hilarious even if it wasn’t intentional. Then of course we have our regularly scheduled story beats of Artemus looking like the world just fell out from under him when he thinks Jim is dead, and looking bitter (or dare say jealous) and exasperated when Jim makes out with the woman of the week at the end of the episode.

The Yikes Dated Factor

When I put yikes dated at 0 that does NOT mean there was nothing problematic in the episode. However there was very little that was straight up cringeworthy that made me embarrassed on behalf of white people or made me wanna turn the episode off. There were microaggressions and casual nationalism for sure, but no shoe polish or wildly inappropriate caricatures. For the time this show was made it was very respectful and for that I will give this episode props!

#wild Wild West #the wild Wild West #James west #Jim west #Artemus Gordon #Robert Conrad #Ross Martin #Barbara Luna #jd Connor #Artemus Gordon/james west #the night of the deadly bed #tnot deadly bed #s01x02 #vintage television #1960s television #tv reviews #meta #meta analysis

[impunkster-syndrome]

I've been looking through the comic, and nothing immediately seems like a schizospec symptom unless you truly know what you're looking for with Barry. (There's a whole conversation to be had about how Sparklecare handles disability of any type poorly and makes characters only "really disabled" if it moves the plot or ship forward, but not this post. Plus the conflation of physical disability ableism and neurodivergent ableism as if they are the same experience when they aren't.)

Sure, the FAQ says he is schizophrenic. But where is that seen in the comic?

I started with asking my partner about if they knew if Barry is schizophrenic, and they asked "He is?" which did not do much to budge my theory of how most characters in the comic are not exactly written as disabled characters, but as characters with disabilities (i.e. JKR did not write Dumbledore as a gay man, but as a man with the added trait of being gay. The difference in the handling of that representation is important and Terry Pratchett pointed it out well). I'm open to being proven wrong, though, and want to be proven wrong, so I go and reread the comic.

The things I noticed as possible schizospec symptoms:

"Also I'm pretty sure I'm missing some organs, but I don't remember which ones." - Barry (Update 16, page 38)

Social withdrawl in volume 2, update 2, pages 3-4

Grandeur moments on update 5, pages 12-15 and some later pages in volume 2 (Questionable as schizospec, there's no frame of reference and this comes across as Barry just being a douchebag who gets zero consequences for how he treats people)

Delusion of others attempting to get him sick (Volume 2, update 17, page 51-52)

Hallucination of germ monster (Volume 2, update 43, page 129) that retroactively confirms that other germ visuals may be hallucinations for Barry*

Some parts of Volume 3 carry on with Barry feeling superior

I didn't really notice anything in volume 4.

Being proven wrong, I think it's less "Barry is forgettably schizospec" and more "The lack of context on the world and just seeing Barry as himself as a frame of reference really makes him unclear as schizophrenia representation, as well as a lack of more negative symptoms." It's more of a problem with the comic's approach being more akin to written oneshots and less as one cohesive story in the structure of the volumes and how time passes between them.

* - With this point, I feel it notable that in a private discussion with a ZCP member where I asked about worldbuilding, it was mentioned that the characters cannot see the colors of the other characters (i.e. saturated colors = trauma). So, the comic is not one-to-one with what characters see. This is not made clear anywhere in the comic or even the FAQ (though it should be in the comic itself), so it is extremely easy to take everything as 100% real in the world of Sparklecare. There is also a lack of knowledge about beliefs on Spinch and general worldbuilding communicated through the text in order to be able to frame delusions and hallucinations as untrue in that world. An example for that framing being needed is someone saying "The sky is green at noon," and while we here would understand that as untrue, that may not actually be untrue in the fictional world a character says it in. Delusions and hallucinations in media are only made clear through context given in that media.

I think my biggest issue is less "Barry isn't great at showing schizospec symptoms" and more "The way these symptoms are written makes them unclear to the reader due to the lack of context on the setting and how Barry just gets no lasting consequences for being an asshole to others because of his symptoms."

I'm schizospec, and my experiences fall more under STPD than schizophrenia. I do get delusions and hallucinations (Internal ones are auditory, and external ones are most likely tactile or auditory but rarely I get visual ones), magical thinking, as well as some disorganized thinking and thought blocking. I have a history of episodic object sentience, cotard's, and clinical lycanthropy. My episodes are sometimes random but most often are triggered by the dark, being alone for hours, hitting my head, or stress. Barry's behavior doesn't really match my own often, and that is my fault for not acknowledging that on the first read.

His symptoms show up, barely have consequences for him, and stop. It messes with the pacing. Why isn't Barry having more symptoms when in a place that is traumatizing and actively undergoing complex trauma? Why aren't those symptoms really making things hard for him with interacting with others and it having a lasting impact for him?

I'm a Snail Food Court Server Stan now. To me they have Catbug's voice.

#sparklecare critical #sparklecare #sparklecare hospital #sparklecare spoilers #schizospec