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Midnight Pals: Imagination

Neil Gaiman: [inhaling fresh morning air] ahhhh what a great day for a race! Clive Barker: what race? Gaiman: the HUMAN race Gaiman: i was just thinking of the awesome potential of the human mind Gaiman: and the limitless vista of the human imagination

Gaiman: just imagine! with the awesome power of imagination, YOU are in control of your own fantasies Gaiman: all you need is a pinch of curiosity, a dash of wonder Gaiman: and an ounce of whimsy!! Gaiman: butterfly in the skyyyy Gaiman: i can fly twice as hiiiigh

Gaiman: why, you could imagine anything! Gaiman: you could imagine a clockwork alligator as big as the sky! Gaiman: you could imagine a railroad conductor made of lemon drops! Gaiman: you could even imagine Gaiman: a boy who wears glasses and goes to a wizard school

Rowling: hello children Rowling: my lawyersss inform me there'sss some copyright infringement happening here Gaiman: ah but joanne Gaiman: if you check the time stamps, i'm sure you'll find that Tim Hunter actually PREDATES harry potter Rowling: Rowling: curssse you gaiman Rowling: you win thisss round

Rowling: curssse you gaiman Rowling: not even i am rich enough to overcome the limitsss of chronological time! Rowling: not yet Rowling: but sssomeday Rowling: if only i hadn't ssspent sso much on that fence

Alan Moore: [appearing in a clap of thunder] Behold! The Arch magus! King: the arch magus! Koontz: the arch magus! Lovecraft: the arch magus! Barker: the arch magus! Poe: the arch magus!

Alan Moore: behold! the story of the boy wizard antichrist! Rowling: ALRIGHT i can definitely sssue over this Moore: ah foolish mortal, observe and know... i never specifically SAID harry potter Rowling: Moore: i just said the boy wizard named [mumbles] who goes to school at [mumbles] school of witchcraft and wizardry and fights [mumbles]

Rowling: curse you moore! Rowling: alwayssss one ssstep ahead of the game! Rowling: curssse your plausssible deniability! Rowling: hmmm "plaussible deniability" huh? Rowling: well TWO can play that game...

Rowling: so anyway the nazis didn't actually commit those documented crimes King: gosh joanne that uh kinda sounds- Rowling: oh but you'll notice i never said the word "holocaust" Rowling: haha i'm too sslippery for you! Rowling: johnny law can't keep up! Rowling: they'll never catch JK Rowling with her molted ssskin around her anklesss!

#queued #official gaiman endorsement!!

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anyway. this is the mood.

#videos #music #animals #queued

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your worst day as a mutant will be your best as an x-man.

#beast marvel #marvel #x men #queued #fav

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i recently saw a post about a recent Captain America comic with him confronting the revival of Nazi rhetoric, hatred and all that in the modern day and him essentially daring the people to throw hands with him (in the style of Jack Kirby) but unfortunately the notes were an absolute MESS, which can be detailed as the following:

people telling the OP that it was a bad time to share it. Now, the panels are ONLY about Captain America seeing fascist graffiti and thinking 'LETS FUCKING GO BOOTLICKERS', and based on how those commenters kept bringing up Israel, its pretty clear WHY they thought it shouldn't shared now. And that was horrifying when I worked it out, because these people were all but admitting that you SHOULD be supporting Nazi rhetoric to oppose Israel and I thought... "WHAT THE LITERAL FUCK." It is a cold, horrible day when you realize that not only do these people EXPLICITLY conflate the modern state of Israel with the entirety of the Jewish diaspora, they all but state they'd be perfectly happy to hold hands with the literal Nazis

there was a lot of criticism of Chris Evans. Now, this was a modern Marvel comic; it was NOT based in the MCU at all. This was the mainstream Marvel continuity, completely unrelated to Evans' portrayal of the character, and yet most of the comments were complaining about Evans and criticizing him; the possibility of this character existing OUTSIDE a portrayal by one specific actor despite having been around for nearly a hundred years apparently didn't occur to these people, and it wasn't relevant to them. This kind of illustrates a point about these kind of commenters that annoys me, and I think it could be boiled down to 'they don't think anything exists unless they see it in a Hot New Movie'. Comics have been around for a REALLY long time but these people compeltely were oblivious to it until they were adapted into blockbusters, and now act like they ONLY exist in the context of the movies

#queued

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Yaaaaas 😍

#orcs #fantasy #inspiration #art #queued

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for a long time I've been unable to understand what the heck the whole reason people even liked vampires at all or assumed that sexiness was a central aspect of vampires at all, and i leaned WAY harder on 'vampires are metaphors for aristocracy that literally eat the poor' or 'vampires are ravenous undead monsters and the ones that aren't are anamolous' but i think this post put into context how your specific framing of vampires can REALLY WORK in a broader context?

it also made me go 'oh' in a similar way, it helps me really understand the whole idea, kind of like how one time i was discussing different ways to handle werebeasts with a friend and when the possibility of them just being what they are but societal normalization makes it harder and they feel about about rampaging when they get too stressed to handle it all but nothing is wrong with them, people just make it harder than it has to be, and that hit so many buttons for me personally it made me realize 'werebeast as autism spectrum applicability'

vampirism poses the question "what if there was a fundamental, horrible, unending well of want in your soul that, if truly satisfied, would lead to great pain for all those you hold closest and, in turn, their absolute and total revilement of you?" and naturally as a person with no problems I don't relate to this in any way at all.

#vampires #queued

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this line hits a lot harder especially when you view laios as having autism...

#dungeon meshi #oh ow #i dont even read/watch this yet and still OW #queued

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i was thinking about how the Jedi in Knights of the Old Republic wanted to not get involved, or at least adopted a 'wait and see' policy to determine the right course of action, and I realized this perfectly does illustrate how the fandom at large would hate the Jedi regardless of what happened, because its the opposite of what they did in Clone Wars and STILL everyone hates and blames them for what happened

Another way I realized the opinion that "the Jedi got too involved in Republic politics" is stupid:

How in the fuck are they supposed to be effective at their job of peacekeeper-diplomats if they aren't involved in politics?

You can't eat your cake and have it too! No one listens to people who have no political authority!

Politics involves you, whether or not you're involved in politics!

#star wars #queued

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As Promised from Today’s Stream

Midna, in Regular and Super Size

#midna #loz #legend of zelda #art #points in delight AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #queued

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thinking of my OC Squad (whom i will detail on here once i get them more figured out) having a lot of necromancy-oriented abilities or techniques purely by coincidence

the mad medical doctor lady (who is also a shapeshifting werespider thing that steals shapes through hardcore trolling) summons her eldritch powers of darkness and nightmare into corpses to animate them with pseudo-life and invites some spirits she's befriended to animate them

meanwhile the walking talking pile of nightmare machinery struggling not to be the world-devouring abomination she was made to be lets her sickness overtake her and then she vomits clockwork machine centipedes into the orifices of corpses, which animate them from the inside

they then put on a splendid recreation of old school dancing 'Grim Grinning Ghoul' cartoons

#original #queued

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Oh my gosh there are people in this fandom who either don’t remember or don’t know about The Great Avatar Shipwar.

…I almost kind of don’t want to tell them.

#atla #fandom #fandom problems #essentially the zutara ship is ENTIRELY built on wishful thinking and rejecting reality to demented degrees #i wish i could feel bad for them but after all the constant bullshit and drama they stir up EVEN TO THIS DAY #they kind of deserve Bryke mocking them at every opportunity #queued

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#polls #armored behemoth #queued

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"boone is 26 he should be at the club" the only thing craigory boonejamin is bringing to the club is an unsettling aura and noise cancelling headphones. he mimes reloading guns on the dancefloor and has a meltdown in the bathroom later. be so fr right now

#fallout #fallout new vegas #boone fallout #honestly boone gives me the vibe that his extreme introversion and quiet attitude is NOT entirely the result of trauma #like in a situation where none of that happened #i think he would honestly be somewhat of a social isolator and be happiest just standing somewhere and reading #he would be absolutely miserable at the club #he'd be anxious and sweating and close to panicking because its too much and he does NOT LIKE IT #queued

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so this got me to thinking; which of the characters would be likely to stay or even WANT to stay as a collective group?

The Courier: The absolute biggest variable because the Courier's personality, ethics, desires and attitudes are all completely player-determined. Specific endings or alignment choices WILL inevitably result in some companions abandoning the Courier, probably trying to kill them in the future, or at least leaving out of disgust, contempt, or despair for their choices. Several of the companions are NCR-aligned and would likely at least leave; regardless of how well you get along with someone. if their politics are completely antithetical to your own or outright threaten your country, that's probably not going to let them stay. (And honestly, if someone is willing to abandon their politics for someone they've only known for likely a few weeks or months in-universe, which is the likely time the main game takes place in, they probably didn't care much for their views or had outright shallow attitudes.)

Among other things, a Caesar's Legion-aligned Courier is going to alienate most of the party; Arcade will outright abandon you during the game if you do this, and call you out on, to paraphrase, "Turning New Vegas into the slaving capital of the world"; Boone has spent most of his time with you killing every single Legion-aligned person in sight, he's not going to make an exception for you!

Boone: He comes off as a bit of a drifter. He's close to you, and cares enough after bonding via killing Legionnaires, but he is also VERY NCR-aligned. If you fuck them over in a spectacular fashion, he's likely done with you. If you go Legion, he will probably want to kill you. No amount of found family will stop someone with a functioning moral compass from going after a friend who is siding with the most evil faction in the world. Additionally, he comes off as desperately seeking a purpose in life, so its hard to say if he'd find friendship alone fulfilling.

Veronica: No matter how you do it, she almost certainly ends the game in a bad position; either her family is dead or she left them, or she's stuck in a dying faction that KNOWS it's going to fade away because they refuses to change. She might be likely to stay with you, but largely because she has nowhere to go, and lacks a purpose in life. She's going to be extremely sad about it regardless.

Lily: Given a lot of her personal problems and that in her best ending she explicitly forgets about her family, there's a possibility she forgets about YOU. (And if Leo winds, she'll be lost to her own rage and functionally cease to exist as the person you know. Unreasonable rage and insatiable bloodlust does not respect found family.) However without those problems, she is the MOST likely to stay.

Raul: Honestly hard to say. He gives the strong vibe of a grandpa figure to the Courier in particular, and he feels like he would be the most likely to stay with them full time. However he views himself as an old man and wants a place to settle down, so its possible he might not stay if the Courier returns to their job (which involves never staying in one place too long). Otherwise, I'd say he'd stick around if he can work out something to do in New Vegas.

Arcade: If he can keep up his medical work in New Vegas, he's very likely to stay there, especially in a Good Karma non-Legion ending, but in general he would probably consider that a happy bonus. He is very explicitly motivated by ideology and purpose, NOT friends and family; if he can fulfil his desire to make the world a better place and its served away from you, well, he's going to leave. He'll be sad about it, but family and friends are a secondary concern compared to saving the world from the cesspit it burned itself into. If you're Legion-aligned, either he kills you, or you kill him.

ED-E: He is your robot son; he should probably stick around!

Rex: He's a dog, but he also comes off as INCREDIBLY independent and likely to do whatever he feels like, though him being a family pet of sorts feels right.

Rose: She is an NCR woman first and foremost; if you're outright an enemy to the NCR, she is probably going to cut ties with you. If you're Legion, she ABSOLUTELY will. Otherwise, its a guess on whether or not she returns to caravan work or finds something similar, and she probably could, but she's not someone that could be happy just sitting around telling jokes or hanging around, she needs something of substance to do to make her life feel meaningful.

Most unrealistic part of Fallout New Vegas companions is that they all just disperse from you once the story is complete. Like you fought a war with and/or for me, a REVOLUTION, and you just fuck off after all that???

In my mind they all just sit in the Lucky 38 having Always Sunny-esque conversations with each other and the Courier until they venture out to get shot at for fun.

#fallout #fallout new vegas #soemtimes a found family ISNT a found family at all but coworkers #but im not quite sure that applies for FNV #they are chiefly following YOU #to the point that if they abandon you its because they realize your end goal #is directly counter to their own but otherwise they're going with the flow #so if they stick around as a found family or not it really depends on #how satisfying they'll find that life #in general lily and Raul YES #boone and veronica and rose are all much more unlikely #arcade canonically will straight up abandon you if you go Legion so #i think that speaks for itself #queued #analysis

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"Ma'am, you're an iconic robot heroine that many people respect. So why is your team, or i suppose found family of sorts, a bunch of weirdos, maniacs, and monsters? Er, no offense."

"Some taken, but I assure you, that if we seem like a bunch of weird freaky monsters, its because we've gone to some effort to do it."

"So, why them? Couldn't you find a team that's a bit more... well, on your level of sophistication and elegance?"

"First of all, no.

"Second of all, I'm not as elegant as you think. My power set is mostly based around non-metaphorically cannibalizing other machines into my body to maintain it and expand my armaments, or just keep myself from falling apart. The second reason is... something I've tried to keep under wraps, but am now choosing to reveal out of spite."

"And that is?"

"I am fundamentally a destroyer abomination given life and infused into machinery; I am very literally a cancer upon the universe. This corrosive.... inherently malevolent thing that I AM breaks limitations, but when I let it go loose, I feel... compulsions. Horrible, violent things. I know what I am, even if I've tried so hard to be something else."

"Ma'am, I, uh, I think this has gotten a bit away from me-"

"I am a monster. I know what I fucking am. I help people. I save them, I rescue kitties from trees and I try to remind people they can always be more than what they were made to be. Because every single day, I look into the mirror and tell myself the same thing. Because I was made to ruin the world. I chose not to. I am a gun that doesn't want to kill anything. But I am something disgusting, abhorrent and wretched.

"When I power up, I vomit stinking tar that poisons the land around me. When I absorb other machines, they corrode and break down. My special attacks are burning smoke I shoot out, and its pieces of my body I'm burning up to keep from poisoning me too much. My joints leak toxic oil, and when I relax my powers to let me shapeshift, I do it by literally breaking my body apart, gluing it together with oil I am pretty sure is processed blood, and pulling myself back together into the form I want."

"That sounds remarkably horrific."

"It is. And I won't lie, I honestly like showing it off just to surprise people. That's why I stay with the people I choose to. They're monsters, just like me. We're all abominations that no one wants to have around, so we keep each other around."

"I do believe that puts things into context."

"Thank you. Would you like to see me flip my face open? I have another mouth and many teeth behind it."

"Erm. No thank you?"

"Shame. Perhaps another day whoops too late I'm going to do it anyway BOOGA BOOGA!"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

#my writing #fics #original #queued

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I haven’t given him a name yet but he’s a sentient AI that took over someones body

#original #art #oh i am LOVING the aesthetic of the machines on him!! #queued

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i recently saw a comment thread about X-Men and i was absolutely dumbfounded, shocked and ultimately stunned to see a poster passionatenly defend Sentinels as necessary to protect humans from potential mutant aggression and insist that everything the sentinels have ever done was only done to save humans

and i was stunned because

SENTINELS???

the literal genocide machines that annihiliated Genosha in a mass of mass murder???

the giant robots that periodically fly around America and fry random mutant children and teenagers in the name of human supremacy?

the Sentinels that turned the entirety of America into a giant concentration camp in Days of Future Past??

The walking embodiments of oppression??

THOSE SENTINELS???

it got me to think that there's no metaphor too on the nose for someone to completely miss, and that its often linked to someone being able to go 'well this is necessary for This Group to survive'

#x men #marvel #sentinels #queued