#the ultimate

[spectral-kitkat]

So I watched Once Upon a Studio last night…

I cried… a lot!

Just when I thought Feed the Birds couldn’t emotionally fuck me up further Richard Sherman rocks up and proves me wrong!

Up until yesterday THIS:

Was the saddest use of Feed the Birds but nope THIS:

Just took the cake 😭😭

On another note:

Best moments: Jim Hawkins solar surfing through Sisu and Oswald just strolling onto the screen at the end

Also wasn’t expecting to get jumpscared by Bobby Driscoll but I am not opposed - Give me that nostalgia!

I’ve also been watching too much Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure cause the 3D versions of Raps and Eugene threw me slightly 😂

This was amazing and made me want House of Mouse back! Please for love of God put it on Disney+

#the ULTIMATE #disney crossover #disney #once upon a studio #mickey mouse #walt disney #feed the birds #disney 100 #treasure planet #jim hawkins #james pleiades hawkins #oswald the lucky rabbit #peter pan #tangled #rapunzel’s tangled adventure #tangled the series #rapunzel #eugene fitzherbert #house of mouse

[tekitothemagpie]

Sanji is the Gay or European legend

I mean look at him

#the ultimate #like who fucking knows #the pose the everything damn #one piece #sanji #black leg sanji #gay or european

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

Asmi I need motivation to do homework but Broadchurch is calling to me rn. Help?

HELLO MAGGOT I WILL GIVE YOU GREAT LIFE ADVICE: UH

okay when I typed that I didn't actually have any life advice i was hoping it would come on spurred by enthusiasm

let's try again

WHAT WORKED FOR ME WAS BREAKING IT DOWN INTO TEENY TINY TASKS AND TICKING THEM OFF QUICKLY SO I GET HIGH OFF OF ACHIEVEMENT

OR LISTENING TO MUSIC THAT MAKES ME FEEL BADASS

ALSO I DON'T KNOW WHAT BROADCHURCH IS ARE YOU FEELING THE URGE TO GO PRAY OR WHAT IS HAPPENING

IF YOU ARE NOT PROCRASTINATING YOUR HOMEWORK FOR JESUS OR BILDADDY AND YOU ARE NOT IN FACT IGNORING THE CALL OF THE (I FORGOT THE NAME) THE CLOTH THEN THE ABOVE TWO TIPS SHOULD WORK ALSO TRY DOING IT FOR FIVE MINUTES THEN YOU'LL BUILD MOMENTUM AND WANT TO KEEP CONTINUING

ALSO, WHEN YOU TAKE A BREAK, TAKE A BREAK IN THE MIDDLE OF A SENTENCE OR PARAGRAPH OR MATH PROBLEM IT'LL HELP WHEN YOU COME BACK COZ YOU'RE NOT STARTING SOMETHING NEW

#good omens mascot #weirdly specific but ok #asmi #maggots #good omens #PRAY TO BILDADDY #YES #BILDADDY #HE WILL FREE YOU FROM ALL SINS #THIS HAS BEEN #SELF HELP #SELF IMPROVEMENT #AND #STUDY TIPS #BY ASMI #THE ULTIMATE #PRODUCTIVITY #INFLUENCER #*FLIPS HAIR AND DRINKS CHIA JUICE*

[andalitean]

its so over....

#the ultimate #quote #animorphs

[ohgaylor]

coney island (feat. The National) // Anti-Hero (+ this analysis) (all lyric connections)

#lyric*connections #the ultimate #iykyk #coney island #coney island (feat. the national) #evermore #midnights #parallels #taylor swift parallels #mine #fandom*discourse

[vellichorom]

i love the stanley parable dot exe

#twinkie talks #TSP blogging #GoreGuts #naw naw naw who's hiding cookies from me #THESE ARE. scrapped(?) cookies? or conceptual cookies #OTHERWISE NOT CANON COOKIES #& these are literally goreguts down to the bone #what ghefuck #THE ULTIMATE

[hope-i-dont-choke]

Who do you think fall in love firsts Kim or Ron? And why do you think that?

Kim. Kim fell first. Kim was simping in preschool. Kim held out hope for years for him to make a move. He didn’t just friend-zone her, he ‘pal’-zoned her. Kim lost her mind the first time she met Yori. Every time the idea of her and Ron doing anything date-like came up she got upset in a way that said she wanted it to be a real date and not just date-like. Kim very clearly lost hope at some point because Ron was so childish by nature and he was too afraid to let himself think about her that way and she could tell he wasn’t growing up as fast as her and she gave up. When Bonnie kissed Ron, Kim complained that it took him 12 years to kiss her. When the Moodulators affected her, they only amplified her pre-existing emotions, she didn’t fall in love with just anybody, it took the love she felt and set it up to 1000. Ron didn’t catch up to her until their junior year, but Kim was in love with Ron when they met on the playground.

#Kimron #kim possible #ron stoppable #the ultimate #she fell first he fell harder #kim x ron

[pierrotwrites-hc]

Hi Periott

I'm loving the new chapters of TGB but was wondering if you could give me some insight into Toby and his development because I found him quite infuriating in the last chapter

“Does that fat arse of yours need a rest, Toby?” “Watch your tongue, slave,” the Steward, bouncing over on his gray gelding, “or when we return to Highcourt, I shall personally ensure that you lose it.”

Is there a reason Toby never stands up for Doran? Like that's his brother. I'm curious, does Toby even see Doran as an actual person? What exactly is his mentality around slavery? And how does he not experience cognitive dissonance when he witnesses the injustices that happen to Connoll and his brother?

“Do you think we’ll be able to see each other once we’re at Highcourt?” asked Toby suddenly. “To play Legion, and talk about mathematics, and—well, just to talk, the way we are now?”

Is he seriously that naive and disconnected from the reality of things? Does he really believe that Luca is gonna have any form of freedom where their going? He knows Luca is a sex slave.

“Do you want to be a slave, Toby? Do you want to sleep on the ground and eat table scraps and get beaten like a dog whenever your master’s in a mood?” “No.” “No, of course not. You just like hanging around with slaves because we can’t tell you to fuck off. Fields of hell, do you care what’s going to happen to Luca once we get to Highcourt? Or to me and Con once we get back to Chesten? Your mam could sell us to the galleys, or the mines, or split us up and send us to opposite corners of the fucking earth. We could never see each other again. But you don’t give a damn about that, do you? Great and little gods, you must be the most selfish boy alive.” Toby’s face was mottled red and white. He was holding back tears. “That’s not very nice of you to say,” he said, in a voice that trembled with the effort not to cry.

YES! I am so glad Doran said this. Like from this interaction it's clear Toby is aware that being a slave is bad/not nice and yet he seems to have no lasting thoughts on the experiences of and consequences for those that are enslaved. And when Doran confronts him and brings up valid points, Toby makes it about himself by crying and acting like his feelings are hurt instead of acknowledging what Doran has pointed out or reflecting on things.

“Doran hates me,” Toby sobbed. “He’ll never forgive me for whipping him, never.”

I feel like the only reason Toby was upset about Doran's whipping is because he had to do it and it was an unpleasant experience for him. It feels like it had nothing to do with Doran's experience/suffering at all. And now all he's worried is forgiveness when he knows Doran's been whipped in the past and will continue to be whipped in the future because he's a slave.

He isn't naive and he's aware of how privileged he is because he's witnessed how those below him live and are treated. But he never seems to use his privilege or social standing to protect/help others, not even Doran. And ye only got rid of the letters summoning Luca back to Highcourt because he didn't want to lose his legion partner, not because he actually cares about Luca as a person.

I'm sorry lol. I love Toby but his privilege and selfishness really irks be sometimes, and I'd love to here your thoughts about him and any information you can give us about his reasonings and motivations (if it isn't too spoilery)

thank you so much for sending this ask. it was actually sent in response to ch 45 but I want to answer it now because ch 46 is an incredibly important milestone in Toby's development as a Good Human.

Is there a reason Toby never stands up for Doran?

yes, though it's a pretty selfish one. Toby grew up watching Doran be (relatively) well-treated and protected by their father. Doran was beaten and talked down to, sure, but that treatment was so normalized for slaves that Toby didn't really spare it much thought. note that when he intervenes on Luca's behalf with Hodge, it's because Hodge's behavior goes beyond even the treatment of slaves that Toby accepts as "normal."

Toby doesn't stand up for Doran because it hasn't occurred to him that Doran needs standing up for -- or that anyone would listen to Toby if he tried.

Does Toby even see Doran as an actual person? What exactly is his mentality around slavery?

Toby does see Doran (and Connell, and Luca) as real people in the way he sees everyone as real people...which means that he's mostly interested in how they relate to him rather than how other people/society in general relate to them. he's 19, but due to his incredibly sheltered and dysfunctional upbringing, his mentality is still very much that of a child. i want to emphasize that this has nothing to do with being autistic. he was just raised by pathologically selfish people and who gave him a pathologically selfish outlook on the world, and nothing in his privileged upbringing has forced him to challenge his assumptions until now.

How does he not experience cognitive dissonance when he witnesses the injustices that happen to Connoll and his brother?

the same reason we don't experience cognitive dissonance around so many of the injustices in our world. think of Ed Sheeren installing rails outside his mansion to keep the unhoused away despite having slept rough himself before making it big. Toby seems like a really extreme case because the things he accepts as normal -- e.g., slavery and abuse -- are so abnormal to us, and seem so self-evidently evil, but he's never had a reason to interrogate the conditions of his very comfortable life before. forced discomfort is going to be his greatest teacher.

Is he seriously that naive and disconnected from the reality of things?

unfortunately, yes.

Does he really believe that Luca is gonna have any form of freedom where their going? He knows Luca is a sex slave.

Toby knows Luca's a sex slave, but his only context for that is his father's relationship with Doran's mother Cilla -- who was, as Connell pointed out, treated more like his wife than his actual wife. too, slaves from Chesten have quite different lives than slaves from Lyonesse. i cover that in more detail here, but suffice it to say that Toby has very real understanding of what sex slavery really involves. he assumes that Luca will be treated at Highcourt more or less the way Cilla was, with a relatively high degree of personal freedom.

Toby is aware that being a slave is bad/not nice and yet he seems to have no lasting thoughts on the experiences of and consequences for those that are enslaved. And when Doran confronts him and brings up valid points, Toby makes it about himself by crying and acting like his feelings are hurt instead of acknowledging what Doran has pointed out or reflecting on things.

you really hit the nail on the head here. as Toby has said a few times in a few different ways, he's very good at not thinking about things that upset him...and when forced to, his instinctive response is that of a child: he manipulates people into comforting him. it isn't a conscious manipulation, and it isn't malicious, but it is really, really selfish, and something he'll need to unlearn.

I feel like the only reason Toby was upset about Doran's whipping is because he had to do it and it was an unpleasant experience for him. It feels like it had nothing to do with Doran's experience/suffering at all. And now all he's worried is forgiveness when he knows Doran's been whipped in the past and will continue to be whipped in the future because he's a slave.

yep.

He isn't naive and he's aware of how privileged he is because he's witnessed how those below him live and are treated. But he never seems to use his privilege or social standing to protect/help others, not even Doran. And ye only got rid of the letters summoning Luca back to Highcourt because he didn't want to lose his legion partner, not because he actually cares about Luca as a person.

you really nail Toby's character here, and it's a great description of where his arc starts. he has immense privilege which he takes completely for granted, and immense intelligence which he uses only for his own benefit. he genuinely loves Doran and Connell and Luca, but he will need to do a lot of work on himself before he can love them as well as they deserve. [spoilers maybe?] in Chapter 48 (so, two chapters in the future, since Ch47 will be a Robert chapter) we see Toby begin that work in earnest, and it will continue throughout Part III and in all the books which follow.

<3

#the golden bird #asked and answered #i loved this ask btw #people quoting your work and having emotional responses to it is like #The Ultimate

[nefarious-616-necromancer]

#doomsday #the ultimate #davis bloome #the new gods #dc villains #dc rogues #dc comics #dc universe #dc nation #dc icons #superman villains #superman rogues #kryptonian #dc #dcu #dceu #superman

[swan2swan]

Name a bigger Failwife.

#the ultimate #anck su namun #swan watches the mummy returns #the mummy returns

[troi-in-monochrome]

#trekedit #deanna troi #marina sirtis #star trek #tng #s07e18 #** #THE ultimate #marina in profile is art #gifs for me #i remember when i first saw this moment #i remember it very well #i might have sighed out loud

[soundtestmenu]

i would like to thank the writers of idw sonic for having an understanding of what good queercoding is. i have only ever heard queer people say shit like this:

#idw sonic #tangle the lemur #the ultimate

[maracllea]

+The Ultimate +

#lee chaerin #lee chaelin #chaelincl #ggnetwork #ggnet #ksoloist #ksoloedit #ksoloists #kgoddesses #goldeneraedit #the ultimate #gfx #femaleidoledit #femaleidolsedit #khh #2ne1 #2ne1 CL #khiphop #m1ne edit #m1ne

[random-xpressions]

Sex: stimulate the mind, engage the body, liberate the spirit...

Random Xpressions

#one single act #mind #body #spirit #the ultimate #amalgamation

[andalitean]

Holyyy shit i forgot about this confrontation. um what do you do when your worst enemy's top henchman is your sort of boyfriend's brother and hes being mind controlled but all you can do is watch the brother yell about how they were looking all over for him for months and the whole time he was down the hall

#the ultimate #quote #animorphs #i feel crazy

[ohgaylor]

interesting the subtle presence of a few fans within her private spaces where she can be herself and put down her walls…

#the ultimate #iykyk #lavender haze #gaylor #mine #lover #parallels #fandom*discourse