#A LOT OF YAPPING

[quixtrix]

dolph was always meant to be doomed; something of an analysis

i'm on my third rewatch of captain laserhawk, and on this one i've been focusing more on the little details that you don't get on your first or even second time watching it. i've noticed little things, such as pey'j helping and then going on to shield a hybrid who's dressed similarly to jade in the third episode. but i've also noticed bigger things, such as alex and dolph.

keep in mind that this show is just filled to the brim with political messaging, it was purposefully designed that way. so when someone mentioned on here that alex was an accelerationist, it explained a lot. we don't know much about alex in terms of his backstory, we only know he helped dolph after dolph attempted to mug him and they ended up falling in love. it's also implied that alex and dolph have been repeatedly reported on the news as terrorists more than we've seen, with rayman referring to them as being the usual suspects when the kaiju attack happened, despite dolph literally not even being there when alex did that shit. they're known to do this shit, and we know alex is a charismatic guy. it's not too far fetched to say once or while dolph was falling in love with this gayass white saviour saint that alex talked him into this shit for alex's own purposes. because yes, he has a cause, but he's also a bit in over his head, maybe with power. he's aware of the power he has over dolph, how he actively uses the 'i love you' card multiple times when they're together and when they're not together. he just had a bit too much confidence in his hold over dolph, but to be fair, alex, you were topping some indulgent mob boss for your cause (because let's be honest of course your sources would be tight if they were being fucked for it) then continued fucking said mob boss and got caught with your dick out by your ex who you think you can get back with. alex uses people as tools, he just doesn't put his shit in the right places at the right times.

i'm getting off track, but the point i'm getting to is that alex most definitely saw dolph, a man who clearly has some jacked up eden tech smacked onto his twink ass, at his lowest, and picked him up like a shiny new toy. he was always going to use dolph. but how come dolph is so easy to use? he's starved for kindness. he's the stray dog that comes up to you at restaurants to act all nonchalant because 95% of the time he gets neglected, but the second he gets offered scraps, he shows how hungry he is. we don't know much about his childhood, and what we do know is under the lenses of literal eden propaganda. we do however know how people get like underneath the hand of eden.

everyone say thanks to rayman, who concidentally, is dolph's foil. both of them worked under eden as their lap dogs, one as a propagandist and the other as military, but dolph had gotten out of the hold the propaganda had on him while rayman's barely shaking it off. both of them are also portrayed as poor little tragic immigrants and the impoverished stand ins both in universe and story wise. they're the feel good picking yourself up american dream stories that people can feel inspired by or feel proud about the country with. dolph had a photo with a kid holding a doll of him. before he became ex military, he was definitely the guy they paraded around as a previous lost cause that eden helped. red, who's as political as his assigned colour, bitches about identity politics in that one off line for a reason. he also jus hates brown people fr he kicked me down a flight of stairs

now we can assume that dolph had picked himself up out of the propaganda machine somehow. he realised he was used and he didn't want that shit. he's attempting to get himself his own life, for fucks sake. he jus happened to get lead on by the wrong guy, which then lead him to get used by eden AGAIN. this time not only in a physical way via soldier work, but emotionally too, with sarah easily manipulating him with what? a sob story and helping him out, maybe being friendly with him along the way.

he wants a normal life. he wants a goddamn normal life. he jus continues to be selected as a tool.

you can see how fucking starved he is for kindness. you ever think about the fact that in his dream life, he sees jade and pey'j? he knew these people for less than a week, yet they get a place in his dream life. most notably, jade gets a speaking role in his dream life. the only other person who speaks, besides marcus, is alex, someone who had known him and shown kindness to him. jade has also shown kindness to dolph. she's the friendliest face there in the ghosts, being the first one to check on dolph when he wakes up, offers an explanation to him, and also makes an effort to include him in her little shenanigans with the video and all!! dolph was all emo alpha wolf and all, but despite his constant cold shoulder, she was kind!!

there was someone who was more than kind though; bullfrog. because bullfrog actively looked out for dolph, despite his constant pushback against bullfrogs advice whenever they weren't separated. and in the end, it's bullfrogs kindness and compassion that hits dolph the deepest. dolph gets out of his depressive state to go back for bullfrog. he cares about people, he goes out of his way to do shit for the people who show him the slightest bit of kindness. he backed up sarah after one good conversation with her to marcus for fucks sake. dolph is just a guy who keeps getting used though. he's so loyal to anyone who looks his way that it's a fatal flaw that ends up with his head blown up. he's a shakespearean tragedy at the moment. i hope in the potential season 2 that he gets to have more moments where he gets to be his own person. not defined by an organisation or a person or a cause, but what he chooses to define himself by. he's on his way there. he jus deserves to be allowed to live for himself. after all, he has already met his end of that story. he can make a new one.

anyways if u reached the end of this im down to discuss this :D i also did get a few points from other people on here, but let me know what u think nd all

#SORRY THIS WAS A RANT #A LOT OF YAPPING #i jus have a lot of thoughts about dolph #i adore him #he deserves so much #and i hate how he gets overlooked IN HIS OWN SHOW #dolph laserhawk #captain laserhawk #rayman #character analysis #sorry guys very passionate abt my boyfriend #alex taylor #captain laserhawk bullfrog #captain laserhawk jade #pey'j

[xyriath]

but seriously if you are at all blogging about the i/p conflict you NEED to read that standing together article from that post i just reblogged. please. please please please please please. these are the people who are actually doing something about freeing palestine and have been for years. And here's the thing:

IF YOU WANT PEACE IN ISRAEL, IN PALESTINE, THESE ARE THE PEOPLE IT'S GOING TO COME FROM.

Because yeah. The way this site is spreading around uncritical posts is a huge issue (and a reason I haven't been around since October). Standing Together is doing a hell of a lot more than blogging about it. They're on the ground putting in the work. Nine days before the October 7 attack, they were in Tel Aviv publicly protesting about the systematic oppression of Arabs (not just Palestinians) in Israel.

"The global left has to be synced with what we need." Trust me, the right is. Boy HOWDY is the right synced. I have gotten more support about my Judaism from the far right than the left and it's??? kinda fucked up??? Someone who worked for Pat Robertson should not feel safer than someone dedicated to activism, but here we are. I can feel how easy it would be to be radicalized towards the right, and I'm actively fighting against it. Now imagine that multiplied by millions of people, plenty of whom don't have the same desire to do so, or feel like they don't have the luxury of safety to do so.

Seeing Hamas being portrayed as sympathetic and talked about like they had a right to commit all of the atrocities that they have is making me lose my MIND. They're a group run by corrupt billionaires who actively started this conflict with the intent of silencing the Palestinian people who have been protesting their tyranny. They have been siphoning money from Palestinians for years and this entire attack is them deliberately throwing Palestinians into the path of slaughter to distract from that fact, the same way that Netanyahu absolutely took advantage of the threat and tragedy to try and get himself off the hook for his own corruption.

Also check out the google doc linked in the article. It's not just a good way to learn how to communicate, but a very good resource for finding out if something you're sharing is worthwhile. In fact, it does a really god job of breaking down why I've felt so uncomfortable about a bunch of the posts on my dash. Some excerpts:

This got way longer than I had intended, but hopefully does its job. Go read the article and, yes, if you need to, reevaluate your activism. Because if it's not what people involved actually want or need, then it's just for you. And that's kinda fucked up.

#xyri yaps #antisemitism #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #I/P Conflict #Activism #Leftist Antisemitism #Standing Together #i've been sitting on a lot of this for a while and i guess it all came out now

[arwensundomiels]

SEVENTEEN ALBUM OF THE YEAR DAESANG / MAMA 2023

#thats a lot of subtitles but i think theyre allowed to yap in this instance <3 #seventeen #svtsource #svtgifs #svtcreations #17net #kpopedit #2605 #g #userace #usershri #usermery #userines #usersha #uservince #usersan #usernaya #usershreyu #heymax #cheytermelon #userjinki

[gammija]

ive been meaning to make this post for a few weeks, and now that Lena's "I am not a wealthy woman, certainly not compared to your own family," to Gwen seems to have put a spotlight on it, here's my lil suggestion;

Elias Bouchard is a ministerial employee/politician, and the OIAR falls under his responsibilities.

Gwen's Bouchard surname already heavily suggests that she comes from a wealthy family, like Elias did in tma. Alice's "Let me guess, fancy gowns, champagne, bathing in the blood of the poor, that sort of thing," comment in ep3 makes that not just independently wealthy, but high class as well.

Then with Alice accusing Gwen of (benefitting from) nepotism in the first episode, it makes sense that someone in her family has a powerful position somewhere in the OIAR hierarchy.

All those are easy to notice, but one thing I haven't seen many posts about - in that same episode, Collin and Alice have this conversation:

ALICE: [...] Is it an app yet? Do we have a minimalist logo? I assume you’ve finished all the social features?

COLIN: Don't you start. I swear I'm going to shove a cable down that prick's throat, pull it out his ministerial anus and floss him to death.

and later, with Teddy-

TEDDY: Colin, mate, you know you’re never getting out of here.

COLIN: Christ, don’t say that.

TEDDY: Even if his nibs lets you off the hook, which he won’t, you couldn’t bring yourself to just leave.

Based on that, we can conclude that somewhere up the OIARs hierarchy, there's some managerial asshole who insists on keeping Colin around (for the app?).

So, combined with what we know from OG Elias in tma, and Gwens nepotism comments, until proven otherwise, that asshole is Elias to me <3

#technically it could be anyone. and the nepotism comment could be about a lot of people #BUT. thisd be a lot of fun #visit from daddy just to check in on how the apps coming along #OR he actually does know more than lets on #either way #the magnus protocol #tmagp theory #tmagp spoilers #tmagp s1 #gwendolyn bouchard #elias bouchard #gwendolyn #elias #magnus protocol #magnuspod #magp07 #magp007 #tmagp - give and take #joos yaps #also ik its not the most farfetched theory but i have EVIDENCE #and not just 'hey thisd be neat' #granted its nowhere near airtight so there's still a high amount of 'wouldnt this be neat' doing some of the lifting #but still

[eggwishing]

short & stout rose And awkward and gangly dave >>>> i think rose would move with a ferocity like she could accidwntally bump her elbow onto the corner of a table and the table would crumble . dave posture’d be so rigid that he’d fall like a tree and shatter like glass from a light breeze

#dave strider #rose lalonde #homestuck #im gonna yap more abt my drawings ive been restrained for too long thinking people wouldnt care😤😤 #my friends at school building up my confidence for better or for worse lol #i have thoughts!! things 2 say!!! not a lot but hopefully getting out the things i do have will make room for more…^_^ #anyways #daveis just egon schiele art to me now #discomfort of tha body ……. Davesprite would be even worse imo #this also means dirk is a short king. and roxy would tower over him LMAO #dirk the shortest in the entire group #i need to draw egbert n jade more😢😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨im sorryyyyyyyyyyy #hits post shyly

[willowparkfanclub]

15 years ago darren criss got on stage with nothing but a chopstick wand, a sharpie lighting scar, a guitar and a dream and i think thats beautiful

#happy avpm/starkid day #they mean a lot to me okay!!! #a very potter musical #avpm #starkid #darren criss #me yapping

[fulgurbugs]

Post-canon/ timeskip ideas/scribbles compilation

#I’ve been having a lot of fun with these. lol #anyways. I’m normal. may have some doodle comics planned for these designs….. #fanart #myart #doodle time 😎 #octopath #octopath traveler #ophilia clement #cyrus albright #tressa colzione #olberic eisenberg #primrose azelhart #alfyn greengrass #therion #h’aanit #anyways. I need to throw these into the tumblr pile. and yap about them. #I’m sure you can see my. alfion agenda. and h’aanrose marriage was in the last time I posted these #yeah I know 4 of em were posted b4 but I wanted to put them all together so. forgive me. lol

[chuyim]

I love the fact that Aventurine is a gambler, not only because of how luck is such an important part of his character, but also because gambling is (usually, stuff like poker) is a zero sum game. Your win will cause someone else's loss. Theres no teamwork or cooperation. He's stated multiple times I'm pretty sure to be hard to work with. (ex. Topaz, Dr Ratio, etc) Not only that but his good luck only extends to himself. His luck doesn't extend to others and because of that he will always be the final winner, the final victor. He couldn't cooperate with and survive with his people or the other slaves. And because he keeps surviving, because he keeps living, he is preservation. Because even self preservation is still preservation.

Also there's this excerpt from the hsr wiki: "Those who follow the "Preservation" Path admire patience, sacrifice, and defensive behavior."

#hsr #hsr aventurine #aventurine #hsr spoilers #I usually don't post on social media but Aventurine resonated with me a lot personally so tell me if you would like more analysis #I can also yap a lot about childe. And vash from trigun (all versions) so tell me if you would like that too.

[puppyeared]

Remember how they pointed out that Palistrom wood was becoming rarer? Because Belos kept over harvesting it and not giving it time to grow back?

The University’s tree is blue. Its a big ass Palistrom tree

#I THINK. PROBABLY #I haven’t seen any other trees in the show coloured blue. but it has the swirls like Luz’s log #ALSO THE LIGHT GLYPH CARVED ABOVE EDAS OFFICE SNIFFLE #I’ve been seeing a lot of posts abt how the isles are recovering from Belos like removing the coven tattoos and #eda raine and king stomping on Belos. but I thought this was a nice callback #Belos didnt just hurt the people on the isles. he also destroyed a lot of stuff that was culturally important #palistrom makes companions and tools for people on the isles and Belos took all of it for himself. greedy bastard #ALSO if u notice on the banner above the University’s entrance theres a symbol shaped like a titan skull #and if you look at the scene with raine ever wolf and Darius you can see they have the same symbol as a badge or on Darius’ belt #so I assume that means the Isles also formed a new government after Belos died. the fact its shaped like the titan is also cool cause they #dont need to rely on some puritan to lead them pretending tk have their best interests in mind #the Emperors sigil doesn’t even have anything associated with the Isles in the first place either. its Belos imposing his own beliefs #yapping #the owl house #the owl house spoilers #toh #toh spoilers #toh watching and dreaming #watching and dreaming spoilers

[hakusins]

tw // scars, blood, bruises, piercings, cigarettes, a bit of ooc?

man, i love whitney

#i know i kept yapping about pink eyed whitney but then pink eyes didnt rlly suit him the way it did in my head..... #so i decided red eyes and ITS HBERFHJEBHRF #CHEF KISS #sue me i have a thing for red eyes apparently #also pls dont look too closely at the tattoos #i just tried to do the approximate shape of tattoos and called it a day #anyways here's my whitney design!! quite different from the first time i drew him #but im a lot happier with this design ehehe #whitney the bully #dol whitney #dol pc #eri the orphan #fan art #art #mine #my fan art #my art #also in the last few panels i forgot to draw his tattoos #and its already 1 am pls let me sleep HJRFERBHF #whitney x pc #degrees of lewdity #dol #dol related #i swear. im Normal about him #scars tw #blood tw #bruises tw #piercings tw #cigarettes tw #a bit ooc but fuck it i just want to play with whitney's hair ok

[shinyvibrava]

Don't tag as b00st/d0nation, please.

I'm posting on behalf of a very dear friend of mine who recently started a GFM to assist in funding her transition.

She's currently sitting at $205/$3000. If you could spare a few dollars or share this, it would mean a lot to her.

#yaps #absolutely anything helps 🙏 #and as her friend of 6+ years it would mean a lot to me too

[teffiyx]

🗿🦚/🦚🗿

#i honest love them so much you guys have no idea #ive just yapped about them quite a lot in private #been drawing a lot of aven as of recently its #haha #its something #fanart #artists on tumblr #hoyoverse #mihoyo #animation #art #hyv #aventurine honkai star rail #honkai star rail fanart #honkai star rail #hsr aventurine #dr ratio hsr #aventio #aventurine fanart #star rail aventurine #aventurine #dr ratio honkai star rail #dr ratio #ratiorine #veritas ratio

[ariariari-freehounreal]

Chell being horrified at the sight of apertures god in a tangible, humanoid form with GLaDOS wearing a crown of thorns for a little 😝JC 🤪 reference

GLaDOS and Chell soft cuddling

Wheatley and Chell also soft cuddling

Wheatley getting a lil smooch from Chell

+ a bonus Wheatley concept design in the corner

GLaDOS designed Wheatley’s android so I doubt she would make his similar to her own. The design for his optic frame has been carried over, with a nook between his eyes over his nose bridge to resemble round glasses, making him look a little stupid. His hair is less obviously synthetic compared to GLaDOS and it’s much messier. He’s also more hastily put together, which is why bolts are visible on his chin. She also made him quite round, because he was formerly a ball, and made him shorter than Chell (with her long fall boots) in order to negate any attempts at intimidation from him. She kept him different even down to his neck mechanics. Kinda gives insight into her superiority complex and strange perception of human social constructs. Especially when it comes to physical appearance.

#portal #portal 2 #chell #glados #chelldos #chelley #chell x wheatley #chell x glados #sorry for yapping in the caption #I love them a lot #my friend who doesn’t like portal and who also claims to not be attracted to women was oddly enamored by my GLaDOS design #said she was pretty #I know what she is. #YURI #YURIKA

[sefirots]

crescents

#ffvii #lucrecia crescent #sephiroth #final fantasy 7 #sefirot art #GUYS CAN I BE INSANE FOR A SEC. headcanon brainblast. #i think sephiroth shares lots of small personality traits lucrecia had like. #he could yap for hours about the things that interest him. tends to over explain himself. people tune out exactly 5 minutes into his speech #both very self assured and determined to prove everyone's preconceived notions wrong #also! hyperfocus leading to the decline of their mental and physical health! they're so self destructive its scary!!! #some shinra guy offhandedly mentions sephiroth having the mind of a scientist and hojo is there in the corner like..hah. you don't say. #anyway im crazy shinra manor gang makes me crazy i miss you lucrecia #first soldier #ever crisis #dirge of cerberus

[visenyaism]

how do you feel about any of the houses in westeros being black or just with ethinicity? as a person of color i just cant only picture white people in my head bc then its not interesting. but like what are ur headcanons but also maybe the societial implications maybe? i get the og targs not being black bc of like valyrian supremancy and the implications that come with that as like cruel black people conquring white land..but like maybe danerys tho.

i mean to me the martells and pretty much everyone from dorne are already written pretty unambiguously like they’re people of color but weirdos will insist on fighting about this anyways. The casting of the Velaryons as black was an interesting and I think good decision, but the showrunners were notttttt thoughtful about the implications of that decision related to how the Velaryons are constantly marginalized compared to the targaryens and feel like they have to work twice as hard for half as much and shunted to the sidelines of the narrative in the show. Critical thinking skills would improve this, but making other great houses also people of color so that they weren’t the only ones would have helped a little bit as well.

I don’t think there needs to be any narrative justification for people of color to exist within a fantasy narrative that does not operate on real world racial constructions. Even so, Westeros is literally a continent-sized landmass with multiple ethnic groups and all these thriving port cities like Oldtown and Kings Landing and Sunspear and White Harbor so imagining that it is racially homogenous and all white reads as boring and weird to me as well. Racism and orientalism are easily George RR Martin’s weakest link though.

#asoiaf #hotd #i’m yapping a lot today. my bad #honestly with the velaryons what i think happened is that steve toussaint did such a good job at that audition they changed trajectories

[bruhstation]

do you ever wonder what it's like to date the most mentally repressed bachelor of sodor but also want to prepare yourself for what's to come? for casa tidmouth's valentine's day special the author filled out this handy dandy chart so you can see if you're lucky for fitting all the criteria or for not fitting any of the criteria

(template by mythir on twitter)

#thomas the tank engine #thomas and friends #ttte gordon #casa tidmouth #senjart #happy valentine's day. I was kicking and giggling when drawing him #random hc is that when gordon blushes it goes all the way to his ears……… Heh #my middle aged princess. my poor little sopping wet cat all alone in a cardboard box. #<--- WHAT IS BRO YAPPING ABOUT⁉️⁉️ #ALSO THE BOUQUET TOOK ME THE LONGEST TO DRAW LIKE I HAVE TO MAKE THE FLOWERS LOOK ACCURATE #AND THE MEANINGS TOO #also from the 1k special polls result he's a top fave and always talked about in the essay sections . So #I'LL DRAW 2X3X4 STUFF LATER I PROMISE. I'VE GOT LOTS OF STUFF IN MY BACKLOG #just imagine ed and hen looking at this chart and grinning and going ''JACKPOT''