#BASED ON THE REASONS SURROUNDING IT

[engagemythrusters]

begging solely-The Mandalorian fans to find another piece of Mandalorian lore/culture/history/etc to talk about other than a now-defunct laser sword used to keep one asshole family in power

#literally the VIZSLAS kept the myth of the darksaber to say that whoever weilds TARRE VIZSLAS SABER (that the VIZSLAS stole) is IN POWER #and yall genuinely think it is a legitimate form of government #DIN DJARIN IS NOT THE 'RIGHTFUL' RULER ITS LITERALLY JUST SOME DUDES SABER #*he wouldnt even want to be the ruler he would hate it so fucking much* #'but that's what would make him a good--' listen to me. if you think someone should be in charge that DOES NOT WANT TO BE IN CHARGE #that is STUPID #and YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD #that doesnt make good leaders that makes people fucking miserable all around. fiction lied to you about that sorry. #ANYWAY CAN WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE #LIKE THE FACT THAT MANDALORIANS ARE *GREAT* WITH TBIs #AND I SUSPECT THAT EXTENDS TO OTEHR DISABILITIES TOO #BASED ON THE REASONS SURROUNDING IT #ahem sorry #i just fucking HAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE those posts i get recommended #i wont make another mean post like this again im just ANNOYED #star wars: the mandalorian

[stewykablooey]

‘would stewy get mad at kendall for this’ ‘would stewy turn away from kendall for that’ ‘would stewy feel guilty for doing this with kendall’ like. stewy does not operate on a different moral compass than kendall or anyone else on the show. i know we dont see a lot of him and when we do he’s fun and funny and likeable and calling people out on their shit but stewy is not nor has he ever been positioned as a moral or even rational focal point in this narrative. dont let arian moayed’s big brown beautiful earnest eyes fool you.

#yes the roys operate on a freak bitch spectrum unbeknownst to most #but none of the people surrounding them would ever change their opinion of them based on any moral reasoning #m

[goldensunset]

amazes me that people can remember information about routes in pokémon games. like ‘i loooove route 217 ❤️’ ‘route 209 has such a banger theme!!!’ ‘have you made it to route 225?’ ‘you can find this rare pokémon on route 210!’ bestie those are numbers. those are just numbers to me how do you remember which area is which. i think i have a general idea of most of them but i still have to look them up every time i need to refer to them in conversation

#of course i know some of them #but a lot of them are like uhhh #they do count up of course but it’s not like the map is a perfectly linear thing #how am i supposed to keep track of all those. please just name placed actual names #another reason i love pla the map locations are names and not numbers!!! goodness. #paldea is like. ok there are a total of four giant provinces simply and aptly named after the four cardinal directions #easy enough #however the sub-areas are once again. numbers. #and because once again a map is not a linear thing those numbers aren’t helpful #also the way they’re spread out makes no sense. the south province is huuuuge with six different areas #yeah uhh area six and area five are on opposite sides of the map!!! why. #i think they’re listed like that based on how early they expect you to get there #like you start in area one of course #you probably won’t get to area five right away even though you theoretically could fairly early. i believe #but you would have no real reason to bc there’s no main story beat over there it’s a very quiet area #area six is mostly alfornada and the cliffs surrounding it which you REALLY can’t get to until later #point being. i know there’s probably some sort of logic to this numbers thing. but it’s still a confusing system #pokémon

[mentally-ill-and-loving-it]

Grimwalker/toh headcanon/idea i have because why not:

all of the old grimwalkers from before Hunter (and the other "Caleb" grimwalkers) was alive are all buddies and live together in a big graveyard/cemetery

#toh #hunter toh #hunter #the owl house #grimwalker #headcanon #ghosts #random thoughts #toh grimwalker #i may or may not make a fanfic based on this but idk #the ideas ive had surrounding this are the reasons for my mental illness(es) #caleb toh #caleb

[constantvariations]

When there's a show that has lots of combat but little to no killing, there's usually a reason for that. I don't just mean the target audience being children (which is a stupid claim anyway, kids can handle way more shit than adults give them credit for), I mean a Watsonian explanation

Aang doesn't kill because he believes it's against his pacifist culture

Batman doesn't kill because he believes in second chances

Vash doesn't kill because it would make Rem sad

But when it comes to the rwby world, the whos and whys of killing... aren't really there?

The villains kill on-screen often, which is a given since, yknow, villains. But our heroes have never had a discussion of how far they're willing to go for their goals

It could've been established during any of the Salem talks, but instead the writers handle it with kid gloves with that Saturday morning cartoon "How do I destroy Salem?" Like, we saw a whole ass human being turned to ash, ShawLuna, you can say "kill," I promise

Due to this, I thought the dynamic was "villains kill, heroes don't," which is fairly typical for shows with this tone

And then Adam was murdered. On screen. By two of our heroes

It was genuinely jarring. There was no lead up to this kind of action, no talk of "doing whatever it takes" or "we have to prepare to do things we might live to regret." Just BAM STAB DEAD

And not even a conversation after! There's literally nothing to distinguish the before/after murder versions of Yang and Blake, which is bad! You took a whole ass man's life! Blake knew him personally! His dreams, his fears, the way he took his coffee, the whole nine yards! Even if it had to be done, that should still have a major affect! Hell, my best friend cried for hours after a bird hit the windshield on our road trip, yet these two are totally okay with ending a person

Even stranger, there has yet to be actual blood spilled by our heroes after that. Not even a skinned knee! Deaths happen around them, not because of them

You've already opened the door for the reaper, you might as well let it settle in for tea

#rwde #its no surprise they pull out the only hero murder on the face of the racism plot #they really hated adam for no reason huh #i genuinely cant tell who they enjoy writing other than blonde screenhog #but seriously tho why havent ruby or weiss spilled actual blood? they have blades ffs itd be easy as hell #or why didn't shawluna take inspiration from the disney movie and just shove adam off the cliff for the classic/cliche villain fall? #is it bc neo came back? did they have to implement the horror rule of 'if there aint a body they aint dead' #it just feels so weird how murder is handled here #or harming people in general #easiest case in point: the narrative surrounding the dismemberment of yang vs tyrian #its more evidence that these writers have protagonist based morals rather than a solid foundation of anything in remnant #which given how they are irl... is it really a surprise? #ugh why did a show w such amazing potential get trapped in the hands of clowns im dying squirtle

[bitch-femme]

Has anyone noticed this like trend in short form media the last decade where people will make videos mocking people I do not believe exist with unbelievable stereotypes like these pick me girl videos or whatever

#Like do 'pick me's' technically exist yes #But I've never met a single person half of these kind of ill willed vids make fun of #Like I find the wacky stereotypes kind of entertaining #But kind of inspecting it closer... #I feel like maybe it's bad for any of us to be surrounded by media centred around just making up fake reasons to mock people #Like mockery of just like normal kind of unfortunate people feels like base for so much humor now #It just feels kind of malicious the more I think about it #Could probably just use less short form content as well 🤷

[halogalopaghost]

I can really judge how bad of a day I'm having based on how hard it is to get tucked in bed. Sometimes just lifting my weighted blanket to get under it is a HERCULEAN effort. Im working on coming to terms with the fact that this is not my fault.

#all my life I've been surrounded by people who tell me to be more active #exercise more #try yoga #go to the gym #just to discover now that I have hypermobility which is causing chronic pain #(and weight-based exercise was making it worse) #and also along the way I've developed POTS #depression and ADHD have always made focusing difficult and now I have 24/7 brainfog #like. I couldn't have prevented this #I couldn't have prevented it! nothing I could have done. #literally as I'm typing rn the muscle in my forearm is burning just from the effort of moving my thumb #that's not from 'sedentary lifestyle' #that's something I do every damn day that sometimes hurts for no reason #exercise isn't going to help that #it's not. my. fault. #at the same time I feel like I'm getting buried under the weight of these conditions #adhd and depression and autism(?) and chronic fatigue that MIGHT be fibromyalgia? #and I think about my biological father. who was a drug and alcohol addict and died at forty years old #I didn't get all of these conditions from my mother #I wonder if he was just coping #anyway that's enough introspection for tonight

[maroonsposts]

writing fics is so hard bc i’m like explaining everything to myself in my head so it makes sense but then i don’t translate it well into the fic and it’s just too much😭 like i’ll have a whole bunch of subplots in my brain so that timelines etc., line up (i.e. narcissa moved in with andy when she was younger and andy had moved near alphard, which is how they all go to the same school) and then i’ll just… forget to write it down, then i get comments and im like OH FORGOT TO EXPLAIN THAT.

#jegulus #james potter #me explaining that remus does not see sirius as a prize to be won but he’s also a teenage boy #and teenage boys are really stupid #i should know i am surrounded by them #but like #i forgot to explain the reason he’s like that is bc he’s based on cameron #from the movies #and now i’m like omg he looks like a butt #but really he’s just cameron #who tries to get bianca the whole movie #and it’s confusing but remus is literally paying to date sirius #he obviously has some issues

[daydreamerdrew]

The Hulk! (1978) #26

#I actually think that Bruce is a really interesting choice for a story focused on these anti-civilization groups #some of the Hulk’s stories get into man versus nature #and that can be with Bruce representing man and the Hulk representing nature #or it can be with the Hulk versus society #for example there was a short story earlier in this series where an old man was frustrated by how much his hometown had changed #all of the technological advancements and nobody was much paying attention to each other anymore #and then the Hulk came rampaging through because he got upset by the lights and smells and sounds of the city #all the cars and construction and advertisements #but he’s also the only one that’s in tune with his surroundings enough to actually notice the man #and afterwards the old man determines that the Hulk isn’t a monster and has some admiration for him for trashing the street #I think that part of the appeal of the Hulk for some people has been his disconnection from society #he’s appealing because he expresses frustration for or rejects things that those readers believe they just have to put up with #can you imagine the Hulk putting up with an office job? #no he’d do what he’d like which is to smash the office and go off in the woods #there’s a wish-fulfillment element for some people #I can actually also see a throughline between these anti-civilization people’s beliefs #that there will definitely be people out to get them if they don’t arm themselves #and the Hulk’s paranoia that all humans hate him and won’t leave him alone #which is not me saying that I think the Hulk’s worldview is reasonable based on his experiences #and therefore that I think these people's is too #just that I think there’s a lot of potential for further complicating some of the themes that this character has been used for #by critiquing these kinds of people #marvel #bruce banner #my posts #comic panels

[coquelicoq]

Au cinquième ou sixième coup de pioche, le fer résonna sur du fer. Jamais tocsin funèbre, jamais glas frémissant ne produisit pareil effet sur celui qui l'entendit. Dantès n'aurait rien rencontré qu'il ne fût certes pas devenu plus pâle.

i know what this means but i feel like i had to do math to get there and i could definitely not show my work if asked. we've got normal conditionnel passé ("n'aurait rien rencontré", formed by conditionnel présent de l'auxiliare + participe passé) and then imparfait du subjonctif + participe passé ("ne fût certes pas devenu") , which could be acting either as the other kind of conditionnel passé (imparfait du subjonctif de l'auxiliare + participe passé; if it used the same kind of conditionnel passé as the main clause, it would be "serait devenu" instead of "fût devenu") or as the plus-que-parfait du subjonctif. i don't see how it would make sense to use both kinds of conditionnel passé in the same sentence, so the "que" (in "qu'il") must be acting as the introduction to a subjunctive clause? or some other kind of literary construction??

the good thing about dumas being long-winded is that he basically already said the same thing in the previous sentence using only the passé simple ("Jamais...ne produisit pareil effet sur celui qui l'entendit"), so i can just sort of plug in the variables. okay, so "pareil effet" = "deven[ir] pâle." got it. i can't support that leap because there are no theorems that i know of where passé simple ≈ plus-que-parfait du subjonctif, but it feels right. it's a good thing french is not a geometry quiz or i would be failing right now.

#a literal translation of that sentence would be something like #Dantès would have met nothing that he would certainly have become paler #which is nonsense #working backward from the meaning (which i am reasonably sure about because of the previous sentence) #it has to be something more like #There is nothing Dantès could have encountered that would have made him become paler #which while awkward at least makes sense #but see how i made that into a main clause with a dependent relative clause? which doesn't exist in the original? #like the 'que' there doesn't work as the introduction to a relative clause because where does the antecedent fit in? #devenir plus pâle does not take an object. there is no antecedent #so the 'que' has to be doing something else. and the way that the tenses change before and after the 'que' #is a hint of some kind. i just don't know what exactly lol #french #my posts #i've gotten to the point where i know too much to understand. like before i knew that fût was the imparfait du subjonctif of être #i would have just been like oh okay that's some form of être which is the auxiliary of devenir. so it's some kind of compound verb tense #but i wouldn't have worried about WHICH compound verb tense. i would have just automatically translated it as whatever #verb tense made sense to me based on what i thought the sentence was saying in the context of surrounding sentences #but NOW i'm like no wait a minute is this the conditional or the subjunctive? and WHY??? #i need to either learn more or conveniently forget what i've learned about the imparfait du subjonctif. i told you that you'd all be sorry #once i'd learned the imparfait du subjonctif but it turns out it is i who is sorry. oh the hubris #but anyway he's about to find the treasure guys! here comes the plot!!

[guttersniper]

i think about how mutts character would be butchered if he were canon and i breathe a sigh of relief that he is all mine

#i feel like the discourse surrounding him would be #ppl unable to process nuance and relegate him to a few base character traits #ignoring his big heart and tendency to make friends wherever he goes #knocking him down and making him this one dimensional Little Heartless Badass #AND AND people Hate traumatized kid characters for like. no reason. u all stink. #ppl be like This Character Is Fucking Annoying And Irredeemable and its a traumatized 13 year old or sum shit that Sometimes Is An Asshole #im looking DIRECTLY at trekkies who hate on wesley btw but im sure theres more #oooh OOOOOOOUUUUU don’t make me mad #hes all mine and im gonna be annoying about him <3 #this wasn’t prompted by anything im just thinking . peas n luv #ooc.

[ratskool]

I think a fun thing I shall do is just start looking up old dnb, industrial, and shoe gaze recordings on the internet archive. Ao3 fanatics comparing their site to the library of Alexandria will never experience the pure ecstasy of finding some obscure 80s-90s project that had a grand total of maybe 20 CDs burned with the coldest cruelest beats you ever heard all thanks to an incredible organization and some person thinking “lots of great memories here, hey maybe others will want to download this idk”

#The biggest reason why I love the fan base surrounding NIN is the archivists completely dedicated to making sure nothing becomes lost media #And then Reznor being like “yeah sure go ahead not gonna copyright strike this no point” #Old school scratch rave and Dnb heads are probably the most dedicated group of digital archivists out there #Right next to Led Zeppelin fans

[spiribia]

The fact that GLaDOS drops Chell off in a post apocalyptic world but we never get to see canon rugged post apocalyptic survivor Chell has harrowed me for 7 years. That is like the one reason I wanted a Portal 3. I NEED to see her timeskipped with 20% more stress induced gray hairs, and a rifle, and tattered jacket, and bandaged hands, and chilling and cooking a rotisserie headcrab over a fire in her impromptu camp with like her long stretch of chain reaction physics based traps surrounding it, and she is using the companion cube as a bench. I know she has the will to carve it out, out there

#talks

[clamorybus]

honestly i thought i was doing better with myself but last night i merely read the tv tropes page for the movie the whale and i broke down sobbing

#i have...complicated feelings about that movie #on one hand the og playwright based it heavily on his own experiences with mental illness and eating disorders #so i don't condemn it for going into heavy subject matter #but something about it just hit me deeply #it was really triggering and i can't fully describe why #and i just couldn't handle it #mickey.txt #eating disorders #fatphobia #i like brendan fraser and he was good at acting just seeing him in the fat suit made my stomach drop #again i can't place why #is it because hollywood would rather ''uglify pretty people'' than hire ''ugly people''? #when its usually the only kinda of work they'd be hired for? #is it because hollywood only portrays fat people as a joke or for drama surrounding them being fat? #is it the knowledge how many audience members treated it as a joke just because the main character was fat? #is it 'internalized fatphobia' and i just couldn't handle the movie? #is it all of the above? #is it some nebulous reason i still can't place? #i don't know!!!!! #i just couldn't stop crying

[sadclowncentral]

What uh. What's the frog story 👀

back when i was in second grade, my elementary school organised a school market with every class selling their crafts for charity. the contribution of my class were hand-sized ceramic frogs we made in art class. each one of us made one of them to be sold for five euros a piece (this is important later). the quality of the frog i made varies drastically based on who is telling the story, and for reasons that will become very apparent later there is no way to check, but i stand by the fact that it was average looking, if a bit wonky.

the day of the market arrived, and all frogs were bought within minutes, snatched up by enthusiastic and proud parents. all except - mine. because my mother hates spending money on unnecessary things, and she hates children's crafts even more. so she - loudly and vehemently - refused, in her thick eastern european accent, to "spend five euros on an ugly frog".

i will never forget seeing my ceramic frog alone on the slightly wet cardboard, surrounded by the imprints left behind by the already sold frogs. all the while other parents are getting more and more agitated, trying to get my mother to put the frog out of its misery. eventually, she budged, and spend five euros on a wonky frog. she was absolutely furious about this.

so furious, in fact, that when we came home to where my father was remodelling the kitchen, she WALLED IT IN. that's right. she cask of amadillo'd that poor ceramic fool. put him into the open wall and slapped concrete over it faster than my poor seven year old self or my dad could protest. out of pure anger over loosing five euros. and that's where it remains, until this day.

my mom hates when this story is brought up, which is why we bring it up all the time. she also thinks she what she did was right, because "do the other parents know where the frog is? no. only your creation is safe. because i love you." morally, i would disagree, but on a pure factual basis, she has a point.

i made her another ceramic frog for her last brithday, which was not buried like some pharaoh, and everytime guests compliment it my brother loudly goes "oh you should see the other frog he made" and when they ask to see it, he points at the wall. this is hilarious to him and infuriating for my mother. and that's the frog story.

#my mom is insane but she loves us to be very clear #everyone who i tell this story irl goes oh yeah. that makes sense. #it is my thesis statement.

[prokopetz]

Ways your fortified points-of-light fantasy city with no discernible agricultural base supports itself that aren't "they eat the monsters":

There's no farmland spreading below the city's mountain fastness because all of the crops are above. Most of the mountain's surface area below the permanent snowline is taken up by a series of colossal hydroponic terraces fed by seasonal meltwater from the snow pack above. (Don't ask who built the terraces.)

The city's famed heaven-piercing towers are aviaries for millions upon untold millions of fruit and seed eating birds, which forage the surrounding countryside by day and roost there at night; their meat and eggs form the community's staple diet. In order to fend off ecological depletion, crack teams of combat-trained wilderness maintenance experts venture forth daily, escorting great cartloads of birdshit on targeted fertilising missions (though in truth they hardly need their swords, as the smell keeps the monsters at bay).

Those weird caverns that seem to be present under every random shed and outhouse are all connected. That's why the giant mutant rats in the basement of the local inn are such a big deal – they're not just annoying the guests, they're also obstructing the community's principal trade route!

For Reasons, the city's population is only about ten percent of its carrying capacity. The city's interior green spaces are presently sufficient for food production, and its citizens take turns dressing up as soldiers and manning the walls once a week to create the illusion of a robust military presence. Unfortunately, the ruse can't last forever, as they lack the manpower to maintain their crumbling infrastructure, nor will they be able to defend themselves when – not if, but when – the neighbouring city-states figure it out.

There's actually plenty of conventional farmland; it's just that the entire campaign takes place south of the city, and the farms are all to the north. Why don't the farms expand southward to claim the clearly arable land? Well, there's a funny story about that...

#gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #fantasy #worldbuilding #food mention #violence mention #unsanitary #swearing