#which is unsurprising

[cementcornfield]

It's important to fans to understand me, and me understand the fans. I put a lot of work on my English to talk with you guys. And I think I'm doing a good job.

#elly de la cruz #i adore this man #i am genuinely SO impressed with how much his English has improved in less than a year #athletes and language learning and the use of interpreters was already so interesting to me even before i become a Sports Person #considering what i studied in school #and baseball is such a crazy overlap of all that #the most 'American' sport but also so international #and then you think about everything going on with ohtani and his interpreter #which is wild and bringing a lot of attention to the language industry (and maybe not good attention!) #and it's like yeah - interpreters and translators absolutely need to have an ethics code and oversight considering the power they have #but not many people think about that! #anyway i'm rambling whoops #but i fully support interpreters AND athletes learning to speak the languages of the countries they play in #and elly is killing it #which is unsurprising #he is good at everything!!! we're so lucky to have him

[sparrowin]

i feel like we should be talking about this.

#eddie is so in love #there is no explaining the look in his eyes as anything other than infatuation #i want to shake him by his shoulders #steve is almost definitely looking at his lips too #which is unsurprising #nnfjdhdhsjn #i need volume two NOW #steddie #stranger things

[arodrwho]

well. downside: pysch is not willing to prescribe me stimulants for arguably understandable reasons (pulse a lil stupid) so is instead prescribing me an antidepressant, which im not convinced will actually help as im not.. depressed......

BUT upside: this means i can legally drink coffee again

#cofee cofee for My me! #my pulse is like. it's fine. it's just a little stupid #and fucking w norepinephrine reuptake makes that worse it seems like #which is unsurprising #given like #[gestures at mild anxiety] #[gestures at ocd] #[gestures at off & on lightheaded spells when i stand up from lying down] #i probably have enough hanging about already

[tommarvoloriddlesdiary]

Tom: Harry, we already tried things your way.

Harry: What? No, we didn’t - when?

Tom: Well, we tried it in my head.

Tom: And it didn’t work.

#tomarry #tomarrymort #harrymort #someone take the post button away from me #for my sake #harry: you cannot be serious right now (knowing full well tom is serious) #harry is equally offended and unsurprised #tom - as always - thinks he knows best #which is how we end up with harry doing things his way anyway

[utilitycaster]

"the longer we take the worse this is gonna get" is also a great principle of d&d tbh

#i will admit I have a day of trave ahead l so I'm a little cranky but i also feel a c3 weakness #is that we're playing to the players' strategic weaknesses at times #which I think is unsurprising given the nature of a third outing but none of the 3 decisive people are playing casters #cr spoilers

[no-where-new-hero]

howl’s moving castle is the anne of green gables of the dwj canon, fire and hemlock is the emily of new moon

#unsurprising which of these analogs is my favorite #lm montgomery #diana wynne jones #emily of new moon #anne of green gables #howl’s moving castle #fire and hemlock #l m montgomery

[poorlittleyaoyao]

MY BELOVED SON MENG YAO HAS AT LAST RETURNED FROM THE WAR (by ending the war)

However, his return unfortunately means I have to see JGS on a semiregular basis for the next 13 episodes, so I am taking a nap.

#Sunshot’s conclusion in the show is so odd bc all the puppets keel over before WRH dies so it undercuts the importance of MY killing WRH #but MY is visibly anxious when WRH tells him how great the battle’s going AND is unsurprised when WWX overrides the Yin Iron #suggesting he DID in fact know WWX had a Yin Iron piece to use (which tracks given the info he’d have access to) #meanwhile!!! WWX makes a whole deal about how he can totes override WRH’s Yin Iron and they’ll see in a month what he means by that #but he spends 75% of the battle running around using Chenqing as a baton?? he doesn’t?? play it?? #LWJ has to shield him from attacks with Bichen a few times! #and it’s not like he only plays it as a last resort bc he plays it during the fucking SOUP DRAMA #so my question to both of these dramatic foils is: WHY ARE YOU WAITING TO DO THE THING. WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THAT. #masala necromancy wizard hour

[iamdeltas]

It has been years and yet it still tickles me that Glimmer from SPOP counts as an Unscrupulous Hero. I mean I agree, she definitely does count as one, but it's just funny considering the usual characters that get to be this trope.

For minor context, Unscrupulous Heroes are on the Edgier(TM) side of the Anti-Hero scale. It's not the Absolute Edgiest(TM) end of the scale (that honor goes to Nominal Heroes, which... kinda self-explanatory IMO) but it's only one notch less Edgy(TM) than that.

The typical go-to example of an Unscrupulous Hero is your "ends justify the (very violent and morally dubious) means" types of guys, like the Punisher. The Punisher imo is kind of the best example of this, though some depictions can make him swerve into Nominal Hero territory. Huntress and Jason Todd are pretty good examples too, though I don't read a lot of DC so I could be off-base there.

So the concept of the examples of Unscrupulous Heroes being angsty, violent vigilantes in grimdark comic books, cynical characters who do What Has To Be Done in gritty crime dramas, troubled hardboiled detectives in the film noir genre... and a pastel pink glittery princess from a reboot of a 80s toyetic cartoon? It's fucking incredible.

#glimmer #spop #she ra #she ra and the princesses of power #tv tropes #s says some words #tvtropes also has eda clawthorne as an example which i kind of disagree with? #i feel like she's more of a pragmatic hero. possibly even a knight in sour armor/'disney anti hero' #i just don't think she's morally grey enough lol #but even if she were it wouldn't feel Surprising or w/e even though she's from a kids' cartoon #just because of the type of character archetype she is #shadow the hedgehog being an unscrupulous hero is also unsurprising to me. like. of course he is #but glimmer being an unscrupulous hero is consistently so wild to me #i love it. i love her #this pink princess with sparkle powers can fit so many war crimes in her!

[omgkayplays]

Oh, I love it and I hate it at the same time You and I drink the poison from the same vine Oh, I love it and I hate it at the same time Hidin' all of our sins from the daylight From the daylight, runnin' from thе daylight

#ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 screenshots #simblr #so anyway I'm obsessed with this song which is both surprising and unsurprising #the chorus is very very catchy #the poison from the same vine bit made me think of the plasma tree and naturally these two #that's enough ramblings in the tags I'm off to nap now✌

[archerofunspeakablelove]

Russian Roulette update: Yassen's conversation with John towards the end of Командир (The Commander) genuinely made me tear up a bit. Y'all if I hadn't started shipping them at the start of Eagle Strike the first time I saw them interact this scene would've 100% convinced me because the way Yassen was so hesitant about working for Scopia at the start and had considered his other options, but now that John is tutoring him he desperately wants to prove his loyalty and competency. In the jungle John tells him he could leave if he wanted to, Scorpia had taught him enough about disguise - all this he had considered before himself, yet when John brings it up Yassen immediately shoots it down, becomes agitated. Why? Because he feels like John is questioning his competency. Remember what he said? "I can do this." John wants Yassen to not have to walk down the same path that he did, but ironically he is the reason Yassen even cares so much about succeeding in Scorpia in the first place. His cover worked a bit too well and now Yassen has a very fixed idea of who John is, and he will do anything to prove himself to his version of John.

You get it, right? The way they want completely different things out for each other, completely incompatible things, because they do not understand each other. These types of dynamics really just eat me up from the inside

#chaotic ramblings #alex rider #russian roulette #yassen gregorovich #john rider #man they really need a ship name i need SOMETHING to tag these posts with #the fact that yassen's relationship with john is very much personal to him even though he would never admit it #and it just so happens that to him john is basically an embodiment of scorpia #and he wants to impress john so by proxy he decides the best way to do that is to prove himself to scorpia #do you get it. do you get the dynamic #the tension in that scene was phenomenal i felt like i was reading fanfiction #which i suppose means that every fic author in this fandom does a wonderful job of capturing their relationship #just. the way yassen is so on edge whenever john says something about how he could still leave if he wanted to. before it's too late #the way he is so confused as to why john would bring this up because it doesnt fit with the very fixed idea he has in his mind about #who john is. the way he says “i killed some of them” as if to say see? i am like you. i can be like you. please give me a chance #his admiration for and attachment to john is so incredibly unhealthy which is unsurprising given that he has not had a normal #relationship of any sort since he was 14 and everyone he knew died #he wants so badly to be who he thinks john wants him to be. and that means that he will never be who he wants to be or who john wants him t #be or who he thinks john wants him to be. he is pursuing something that just doesn't exist #god i am so normal about these two

[nanatsuyu]

capcom saying Ashley and Leon can't hold hands cus someone might ship them and then making them the most physically in contact just-met-duo I've seen outside of ecclestons doctor is hilarious

like they hold hands so often in re4r that I was like Impressed by the shift in tone between games

#Anyways they cute #Best rookie #eagleone #Apparently the quote comes from a comment on game mechanics/Leon's weapons ready stance but some people decided to make it a shipping issue #Which is unsurprising but disappointing because I simply think they haven't considered that as previously stated “they cute” (:

[kravicle]

i made a little uquiz about crime

#krav speaks #personality quiz #quizzes #uquiz #i got kill kill bite bite which is so. unsurprising

[clementine-kesh]

i think a good rule of thumb both irl and online is to avoid people who seem completely miserable all the time. being a hater is one thing (and y’all know i’m a proud hater) being a joyless black hole devoid of any whimsy or enjoyment is another

#went on a blocking spree today and noticed this of a certain group of people #which. hm. unsurprising

[genderenvykeefe]

Had to find this jacket bc I really am so obsessed with it, only to find out that the costume department cropped it… kissing the designers on the mouth right now,,, they really give the people what they want

#650 CAD which is like 500 USD unsurprising never in my budget but god I could dream #keefe chambers #the righteous gemstones #me shit

[akuma-homura]

also, have watched hazbin hotel's current episodes

My main critique is just,,, it feels like it being just 8 episodes for a season is a detriment-- the pacing is weird / a bit fast, and there could be more like... development for the characters and the plot. It has real great moments, but it could have benefited from more lead up to those moments?

outside of that though, I'm currently enjoying it-- I've actually always liked the style, and even if there were all those memes on twitter about the writing and cursing and stuff, I personally don't actually feel it was 'overdone' or out of place-sounding, laughs

i'm like. ignoring all other discourse around it too.

#[ ;text ] #alastor is still my absolute fave #which is completely unsurprising if you know me #lucifer skyrocketed real fast too #and angel dust makes me Really Sad #love him and husk getting closer too. that's so good #also. fucking hate adam LMAO #hazbin hotel -

[best-at-episode]

#adventure time #atimers #bonus poll #the last four eps are all like . top 20 episodes for me tbh i ADORE islands #which is unsurprising if you know how much i love finn (a LOT)