#Just rambling

[theelast-straw]

I'm sitting at uni freaking out about omegaverse car racing instead of actually paying attention to my lecture and honestly idk what that says about me

#pit babe the series #pit babe #just rambling

[dieselpvnk]

don't need the isaac wiki because at this point all of it is in my brain

#“what was this item called?” #here's the item name and what it does and interesting interactions it might hvae #just rambling #for deletion #im normal

[madohomurat]

funniest thing ever is when people act all surprised when a trans woman hates men. like you know exactly whats going on in their mind. "why would a trans woman hate men when theyre..." go on. finish that thought! or they have this batshit insane thought that trans women can relate to a cis male experience or that trans women have never felt oppressed by men around them. even closeted trans women likely live in fear of cis men but sure it makes no sense for them to harbor any hatred. sure

#cy texts #just rambling

[seasideoranges]

A lot of people put Zuko and Sokka in the 'grumpy x sunshine duo', and while I initially get why some people do this, Sokka is a goofball and a jokester, and can help unwind the group and raise spirits, don't forget that the boy can also be just as grumpy! He's sarcastic, he tends to approach a lot of things with skepticism, which can lead to him being cynical, and he's kind of a party pooper sometimes! Both Zuko and Sokka have their moment when they say "I'm never happy" which is hilarious.

Basically, both boys are different flavors of grumpy and dramatic, and I really love that. So I personally don't think the grumpy and sunshine trope fit those two. This isn't the "black cat and golden retriever" trope, this is "black cat and orange cat". They're both assholes.

#joking about the last part and said with LOVE of course!!! #just rambling #zukka #text

[elias-the-corvid]

I love all the "Jon, Martin and Jonah are in the computer" theories but I'm not fully convinced bc Alex did say he was worried tma fans would misunderstand things or bring biases into the listening of tmagp that new listeners wouldn't (paraphrasing), and they've been pretty insistent that you don't need to have listened to tma for this to make sense so it'd be kinda weird to have a reveal that's basically "woah these characters from the podcast we told you wasn't a necessary listen are here!"

Still, love the theory, will reblog anything that calls out Augustus' obviousness.

#tmagp #the magnus protocol #just rambling

[notesappsoup]

The wwdits season finale really said 'what if you finally reached the goal you had been dreaming of your whole life, the impossible future where you are capable and worthy of being loved and it turned out that you were still *you* under it all? What if you still had all your human traits under those fangs? What if you were in fact *even more* susceptible to your human softness even though you had supposedly escaped it all? And what if the person you've loved for so many years holds his hand out to you and tells you it's okay, he can make it better? What then? '

#Wwdits #what we do in the shadows #wwdits s5 #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz #Nandermo #Just rambling

[give-bucky-his-boyfriend-back]

Fanfiction actually makes me so fucking happy, I honestly don't know what I would do without it at this point

#just rambling #just read a wonderful fic and just YES #fanfiction #ao3

[nyuuronfly]

On Rain World lore and it's implementation within the game.

This is kindof a random ramble I went on in a Discord chat and just feel like sharing elsewhere. (also note this is all primarily in reference to the original game, Survivor's story.)

I honestly think too many miss the forest for the trees a bit with RW, in terms of how important the lore is, if that makes sense. I talked with somebody about first-time experiences with the game and they said they'd watched a number of lore explanation videos on YT before starting, because of some reason along the lines of "I didn't trust the game to deliver its own story properly." To me this is almost saddening to hear because I really feel that misses the point of why the game has it's lore to begin with.

To me, while playing, any tidbits i learned about history or other information contributed to a feeling like the world I was navigating had a very real history that saturated it, yet one that I would be unable to grasp fully. It is an illusory feeling of realness, given how it is experienced. The game is mechanically not designed to incentivize collecting many information pearls, especially when in the original game you can literally just drop them off a cliff and lose them forever. You get the feeling often like you are bound to never be able to get everything, nor would you even probably want to put in the effort, so the illusion actually stays stronger because of that. Your mind wanders speculating about every little detail, whether intention truly existed behind it or not, because it feels like it did. You learned that it might have. Maintaining that illusion while playing I think is the primary reason they were included, not actually the experience of "knowing" the history. Rain World in general seems to have a thematic fixation on the simple idea that individuals have limited perspectives. Joar Jakobsson has said that one of the core ideas behind Rain World was to recreate the life of a "rat in Manhattan." That is to say, a creature that understands how to find food, hide, and live in a complex man-made structure, that cannot understand it's structuring purpose or why it was built. The very core issue of the iterators, is that the solution to the "great problem" intrinsically has to lie with knowledge that could only be obtained from "the other side." They are corporeal beings trying to know something that pertains to something outside corporeal reality. Yet pursuit of knowledge is very important to creatures like ourselves. Collecting any individual pearl is mostly an exercise in doing a lot just for little bits of knowledge. There is a lot of understanding of just how significant wanting to know more is, even something unimportant, when you are left in the dark the way you are in the game. Most information pearls you deliver are literally completely useless to know about, but they feel personally important, especially in how finding them relates to your connection to the iterators. My primary motivation to find pearls in my first play was to spend more time with Moon. On a very real emotional level, Moon felt like my only friend in the world while I played. On a mechanical level, she does literally nothing. But Rain World manages to operate on a very emotional, even instinctual level with how it's designed. I wanted to be in her company and have something to give her. Because I am alone, and lost. So something along those lines is why I felt saddened to hear the sentiment like Rain World somehow "fails" to deliver it's "story." The purpose of the game is not to find pearls and hear about some grand narrative. At it's core, Rain World is a game that's design was inspired by nature, and it's use of history within the world relates to us as a player the way history relates to us as people. It is relayed through people reading from records created by parties with their own perspectives, and connects us abstractly to a sensation that there is more out there than our own lives. That is a feeling you have as a player, and ultimately the true story that Rain World tells is the memories you have playing it. What you did, saw, and felt. The same as how our story is that of our own lives. That is the purpose of the game.

#rain world #just rambling

[sketchy-tour]

Yall mobile users, if you only have a phone, it doesn't look like the layout likes mobile too much so if you have an option on your mobile browser to switch to "desktop mode", do that!

#welcome home #text post #just rambling

[bochitoblanco]

Ok but I feel like it is so sweet how Katsuki just like everyone else knows they are being recorded and that this is being livestreamed globally. People from all around the world are watching.

And instead of saying his hero name outloud so people would know him. Erasing being known as "The victim from the sludge villian" or "the kid who was kidnapped", and instead putting his name out there, his hero name.

But he didn't do that.

He could've said his full name, which could be seen as being even more proud of being himself, since he is not using his hero name, his hero identity, but his actual name. Refering to himself even without the hero aspect, just him and being proud of that.

But he also didn't do that.

He chose to call himself the nickname his former childhood friend has been calling him since he was 4 years old. A nickname that can be seen as childish by a lot of people.

Yet he didn't care, he used that name proudly and in front of the whole world to adress himself.

The name lots of people will probably identify him with from now on since many don't know his hero name.

By calling himself Kacchan Bakugou he chose to make that the name everyone will know him as.

And he did it proudly.

Now part of his identity is directly linked to Izuku, probably forever, and he did that.

The whole world now knows him as Kacchan and that's how he wants it to be.

He is proud of the name Izuku gave him, he cherish it and wants the world to remember him as Kacchan.

To think of him as Kacchan.

And I think it's beautiful.

#bakudeku #bkdk #just rambling

[qsmprambling]

Thinking about the time Roier struck Bad with lightning and Bad went "Pomme attack!" And in a somewhat surprising move for an egg who is generally very amicable with everyone she did it without a hesitation, and when Roier was confused that she attacked her response was "Don't hurt my family"

And when Elisangela shot Bad and Pomme tried to attack her, which didn't work, she kept looking intensely at this immortal creature while telling her to stop attacking her dad (before she had officially called Bad her dad to his face).

Remember when Dapper was kidnapped and Richas had to hold her back from following Bad and Cellbit to the scene? How she sat with Bad afterwards and mirrored his fury, and they both swore vengence against him? How afterwards Dapper was afraid of ElQuackity, and when he ran away Pomme stood and faced ElQuackity unflinching with her scythe out... Her scythe she named 'Vengence' specifically because of what ElQuackity did?

Remember when Leo and Max intended to try an experiment to make her immortal, but there was a chance it could kill her, so Pomme offered to be the test subject instead because she had two lives? Remember how she was always willing to put herself in danger for her siblings, because of her second life?

Pomme is kind and smart and sweet and caring, but she is also a warrior and protector just like her dad Etoiles... She is so quick to jump to the defense not only of the people she loves, but to anyone at all who may need help.

I love this sweet, strong, passionate little egg ;w;

#just rambling #sometimes i think about Pomme and just #i adore her #pomme

[mueritos]

started a new job recently as a research assistant for a gay Latinx professor in my grad program, and while I definitely don't have the time to be doing my own research, working with this professor on his book projects has been so affirming and healing. i'm working on a book he hopes to publish soon that is full of interviews of gay and trans Latine men...and it is so fucking awesome. I feel so seen by the words I am reading, and I feel tears spring to my eyes looking at the photographs of these men. They look like family members, distant cousins, and family friends. They look so happy and full of confidence. I see myself in their eyes, recognizing the "fish" shape in our eyes that is so distinctly tied to Latines. One of the men in the book is a pup! And it is so beautiful seeing his smile as he holds his pup mask.

I have met very few queer latines. I don't know what it's like to have the tio or tia that has some secret aura to them, that "no se habla" vibes where everyone knows they're queer but just won't acknowledge it. Hell, this professor I'm working with is the first gay Latine man I've ever spoken to. I wish I had a community of gay Latines. I hope I am able to access that one day :)

#muerto talks #just rambling #reading thru this manuscript has me feeling some intense emotions #ive always been the person other queers look up to #and i always wish i had someone i could look up to #this reminds me that when im back home for the summer i should totally connect my emotional support gay professor from undergrad #i have never felt such acceptance and joy man #life be good when you have an older gay BIPOC man in your life #LIKE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ADOPT ME PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE #this makes 3 gay male professors i know that i look at with very big round and wet eyes #my research professor is also a gay man and im like so captivated by him in class #i be on cloud 9 when i say something in class and he continously references it #LIKE YES I WON!!! #I WON!!!!

[dieselpvnk]

spearmaster needs to be depicted as freakishly underweight more. most of this slug's weight is the tail. the weird ass test tube baby

#just rambling #for deletion

[a03-anxiousandafraid]

It would be really fucking funny if the issue of "the general public isn't good at recognizing Link when he's not next to Zelda" continued to be a common trend even after Link and Zelda settle down and become the official king and queen. Like, I adore the headcannon that Zelda doesn't want the title of queen and just continues to help Hyrule improve and rebuild without the formalities and forced respect. But oh my goodness how funny would it be for Link to decide he wants to run some "errands" and just paraglides off a balcony, lands in the middle of some shopping stands, freaks everyone out with his drop from the sky and absurd outfit just to pick up some apples and butter. The shop owners would be visibly annoyed and probably rude until Purah trots over with a "oh, Link! Grabbing something special for the Queen?" Then visible horror when they realize oh my Goddess I was rude to the fucking KING

Idk I just think it would be funny. Tony Hawk syndrome for the King of Hyrle

#just rambling #loz #legend of zelda #botw totk #random thoughts #tears of the kingdom

[sand-through-glass]

Rambling a Commander theory again...

One thing I consistently noticed throughout the story is that whenever we're put into a "worst fear" situation with the dragons or demons, while Dragon's Watch tend to be manipulated on the topic people they've hurt/lost (Jormag messing with Braham about his guildmates, or in Mordremoth's mind when we confront his mother for example.)

But the Commander always faces themselves. This happens repeatedly in the story. Now I imagine that it's a writer's technique that they don't want to tell the player what THEIR commander is traumatized/troubled about so using a "fight your worst self" is a pretty safe bet from a writer's viewpoint to remain neutral enough that it can be built on in RP but strong enough that it makes sense for the story.

But I like to think it runs deeper than that, that this genuinely is their worst fear. That they fear what they're becoming, what they're growing into. It's brought up a few times in attempts to manipulate the Commander that they don't care about their friends. Which of course isn't true, but as a fear? I could absolutely see the Commander being afraid of losing themselves in their attempts at saving the world, that they forget how to be close to people and feel like they can no longer relate to anyone because they've just been through so. damn. much.

Eir in Gyala Delve, as well as Almorra, back this up to me. They could have gone the angle of "you were too late" or "there was more they could have done" to hurt the Commander but they BOTH said similar things to them; "I was nothing to you/You don't care that these people love you."

So it keeps coming back as a manifest, there's no one event that haunts the Commander in particular, it's what these events threaten to turn them into that they're so scared of. So whenever an enemy wants to manipulate them, the best go-to is to fight the worst version of themselves because that's what they truly fear.

Because maybe on some levels, it's true. Maybe buried deep down, the Commander is struggling to relate to the common man because after the dragons and a god, how can you go back to small talk? Maybe the Commander is suffering from compassion fatigue deep down and finding it hard to care about the smaller things now. Maybe they are as chaotic as people say, and they just don't see it anymore because the traumas of war have just all blended it together.

What if the worst version of them DOES exist, just under the surface?

#gw2 #gw2 commander #guild wars 2 #just rambling #idk man

[elias-the-corvid]

Sooo I went and got a bunch of posters for my room

And my partner asked what Goncharov is...

To which I obviously responded "the greatest mafia movie ever"

I have been telling him about this amazing movie for like an hour and even brought up these screenshots

And she's so hyped bc "how could I not know about a Martin Scorsese movie??? I love the guy why have I not heard of this?"

I don't know how much longer this is gonna go for but I'm having fun.

#goncharov (1973) #goncharov #gonchposting #just rambling #I'm waiting for the all caps ''IT'S FAKE??'' message #muehehe