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cantsayidont · 6 months

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October 1966. You can't keep a dead butler down. About two years after killing off Alfred the butler in 1964, editor Julius Schwartz was faced with a problem: William Dozier, the producer of the forthcoming Batman TV show, wanted to include Alfred in the show, and wanted him reintroduced into the comics as well! Schwartz and writer Gardner Fox struggled with this challenge and finally came up with the utterly preposterous story presented in the issue above.

Even for a Silver Age Gardner Fox comic book, this story is exceptionally convoluted, so it's best considered chronologically. We begin with a flashback sequence involving iconoclastic "all-around scientific genius" Brandon "Plot Device" Crawford:

This is already straining credulity a little because the story in DETECTIVE COMICS #328 in which Alfred died (helpfully recapped elsewhere in this issue) showed that he had been crushed to death by a giant boulder. That did not seem survivable at all, and even if it were, this would imply that neither Batman and Robin nor whatever doctor who filled out Alfred's death certificate nor the mortician noticed that he wasn't actually dead! Anyway …

So, Alfred wasn't actually dead, he wasn't embalmed, and he was buried in a refrigerated coffin (that's what the purple cylinders in the last panel previous page were for). A stretch, but we'll allow it. However, upon discovering this, Crawford, instead of calling an ambulance like a normal person, seizes on the opportunity to do some Frankenstein shit with Alfred's maimed, broken, mostly dead body, as one does (if one is a reclusive "radical individualist" who dropped out of college to pursue unorthodox, dubiously ethical scientific experiments, I guess).

One of the initial objects of Schwartz's tenure had been to rid the Batman books of the fantastical aliens, monsters, and bizarre transformations of the 1957–1963 period in favor of something a little more grounded. All that goes out the window here, despite the rather defensive editorial footnote, which says:

EDITOR'S NOTE: Physics professor Robert Ettinger, author of "The Prospect of Immortality," has said that death can only be defined in relative terms. He points to the hundreds of persons revived after drowning, asphyxiation, electrocution, and heart attack. "Biological death depends not only on the state of the body," Ettinger says, "but also on the state of medical art!"

Okay, then. On to the Frankenstein shit:

So, Crawford's experimental cell regeneration machine has restored Alfred's broken body, but in the process transformed him into an unrecognizable, rather hideous-looking being who is also evil. Check! The regeneration effect we see Crawford panicking about then transforms him so that he looks like Alfred, while leaving him in "a catatonic trance." The Outsider, rather ungratefully, puts Crawford's unconscious body back in Alfred's coffin to cover his tracks, and uses Crawford's various machines and his own "increased mental power" in his new quest to destroy Batman and Robin.

This was not the first appearance of the Outsider, who had actually been hounding the Dynamic Duo on and off since DETECTIVE COMICS #334 two years earlier, although he had never appeared on-panel, and his identity had been a mystery. Where Schwartz originally intended to take that plotline is not clear (Schwartz's own account doesn't say, and Gardner Fox said later that he didn't think Schwartz had a solution in mind at the outset), but it doesn't seem likely that revealing the Outsider as Alfred was the plan, particularly since subsequent Outsider stories had shown that the villain had superhuman powers, including the ability to bring inanimate objects to life! In this story, the Outsider really does transform Robin into a wooden coffin, as the cover indicates — it's not a hypnotic illusion or some other such dodge. Fortunately, the effect is reversed after the villain is defeated:

Batman's determination to keep these events secret from Alfred is bizarre, since Alfred's death is a matter of public record: As seen in DETECTIVE COMICS #328, Bruce Wayne started a charitable foundation in Alfred's name, with its own building in Gotham City! Batman suggests that they can rename the charity the Wayne Foundation (as of course they subsequently did), but how he expects to resolve the various problems created by Alfred having been legally dead for months without his finding out is unclear. They do take the time to retrieve Crawford (who has miraculously not suffocated or starved to death in Alfred's coffin) and use his machine to return him to normal, after which Batman suggests that Bruce Wayne will give Crawford a job at the renamed foundation.

If you're wondering, "Wait, does this mean Alfred now had super-powers?" the answer is yes! Since he didn't retain any conscious memory of his death and resurrection, he was normally unaware of this, but Alfred's evil Outsider personality resurfaced several times, and he sometimes spontaneously reverted to the Outsider's form, in which he once again had supernatural abilities:

Notice the background, with the buildings burning like candles? The Outsider did that with his mental powers, along with a bunch of less grandiose but equally impossible feats. Fortunately, they reverted to normal after he split into separate good (Alfred) and evil (Outsider) selves and defeated himself. The Outsider resurfaced once more in 1985, battling the Outsiders and nearly killing Superman by transforming the Batcave's giant penny into Green Kryptonite.

I guess this whole saga did resolve the problem of resurrecting Alfred for the TV show, but in what I think can fairly be called the most ludicrous way possible. (And you thought the PENNYWORTH show spun out of GOTHAM was silly …)

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eyestrain-addict · 9 months

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I just realized why lestat marked Tom, like the big stupid idiot I am

(I know everyone else probably already figured this out, but this is MY blog and I get to post whatever deranged thought crosses my pea brained mind.)

When I watched that scene in episode 5 where they're at the bar talking to Tom, I was confused as to why exactly. Why does Lestat mark Tom? If he's marked to kill, why does he wait almost 2 decades later? Well I realized, as all realizations come, in the shower.

Lestat has been planning on killing Tom the whole time.

(Warning before you click read more, this post is a lot longer than I first intended holy fuck)

Well not the whole time. Just right when Louis realized that Anderson and Fenwick had screwed him over. Maybe even longer if he knew it was a trick ("ridiculous of you to mix human and vampire business it always ends poorly"). Notice how he's upset with louis when he kills the guy who's microaggressive with him, cus lestat wasn't there (even if he was there I have my doubts Lestat would understand microaggressions, but he would have definitely killed him for touching Louis.) But tells Louis he's proud of him for killing Alderman. I think this has to be because he witnessed the disrespect first hand. He didn't give a fuck about the money, what he DID care about was that those two disrespected not only him, but Louis.

Even with Lestats little understanding of race relations of the time in America, he did understand hierarchys. He's from 1700s France for God's sake. It's no coincidence wanted to be king of mardi gras. Lestat came to New Orleans and saw himself as the king, even if no one knew it. And he wanted Louis to be his queen. Honestly I could make an entire other post about how Lestat almost literally saw himself as if he was a King and Louis his beloved Queen, which is why he thought it was okay for him to sleep with other women (mistresses and playthings of the king should mean nothing compared to the queen in lestats eyes) but that's getting off topic. I only bring that up because I'm trying to paint a picture of how I think Lestat sees disrespect done to Louis. To him that goes beyond disrespect or rudeness, it's irreverence.

You begin to notice if you watch scenes with them together. Because while I wouldn't say lestat is good at controlling his anger, he's definitely great at concealing it until it erupts (props to Sam Reid have to be given here) lestat is always on the verge of fury when talking to Tom. It starts as a distaste then as he begins to fall more in love with Louis and become more protective of him, his anger builds. Claudia was wrong about one thing, it was no petty slight that was the reason Lestat killed Tom first, it was a loooonng time coming.

I could list every detail I think supports this but I'm sure you get the gist by now. My main point is really the layer of complexity this adds to not only the story, the characters, but also lestat and louis' relationship. Consider it for a second, Lestat saw all his violence as justified, everything he did one can see it through the lense of him punishing the disrespectful (take a shot every time I say disrespect in this post jesus christ). "I bring death to those deserving" indeed. Lestat has a god complex out the wazoo, and every attack, torture, and death he caused was righteous to him and thus enjoyable. Louis on the other hand didn't see himself so highly. He may seem confident but if you look through the cracks it's apparent Louis's self worth in near nonexistent and he's horribly insecure. I think lestat thought when Louis was made a vampire he would see himself as Lestat saw himself, and as Lestat saw Louis. But again, another post for another time.

Despite Louis' insecurities (or perhaps because of them) louis revels in the violence lestat commits for his sake. That's probably why louis is so quick to forgive lestat about the priests. For a brief moment Lestat truly said the truth to Louis and Louis could forgive him because of it. As lestat says, he doesn't kill the priests to intimidate Louis, nor does he do it just because he enjoys it. He does it because he sees them as humiliating Louis, charlatans that don't deserve Louis' sorrow. Louis didn't want the priest's to die, but he could understand why lestat killed them, simply because for once in his goddamn life lestat told the truth, and louis loved that truth. That truth being that lestat killed and mutilated and committed such horrors not just because he liked it, but because he did it out of a fucked up sense of protection. Him killing the priests was essentially a knight killing a dragon to earn the princess' hand in marriage.

The worst part is that Lestat doesn't even realize it. Not fully anyway. Let's be honest with ourselves, lestat doesn't understand Louis. Obviously there's the race, background, culture differences that lestat doesn't understand nor seems inclined to try, but there are better posts about that made by smarter people than moi. I'm mostly talking about lestat doesn't understand louis' mind itself (louis' mind in a vacuum I suppose you could say) he understands Louis' desire for violence sure, but he doesn't understand the core of that want. Honestly I'm on the fence of if he ever understood that Louis loved it when lestat was protective in the first place. I guess it can be dumbed down to Louis wants Lestat to kill to protect Louis and to protect the family (and anyone who deeply disrepects them), lestat perhaps understood a little at one point, but since he sees everyone as a threat and everything is a slight to him, he has no trouble and qualms with delighting in the torture of people Louis views as innocent. Louis' heart is a bit dark, but ultimately human, so he's disgusted by lestats violence towards the undeserving. Lestat can no longer read Louis' mind and even if he could, Louis doesn't quite understand the difference himself (that's why he tries to hunt for criminals briefly) so the cracks of miscommunication starts to form, and neither of them even realize there is miscommunication.

Therein lies the importance of Tom Anderson for season 1. Not much of a character, more of a plot device in human skin. Claudia can see that Lestat hates him, but doesn't understand why, nor does she care to get to the depths of that. (*Mr house voice* understandable) I think it's notable that Louis rarely brought him up, he didn't understand the depths of lestats love. Nor did he know about Lestats 3 decade long grudge, all because Tom disrespected Louis.

Now I'm not excusing Lestat's actions, I just think it's interesting how this one throwaway character reveals a whole level of complexity to the relationship between him and Louis, and better sheds light on not only Lestats personal philosophy but louis' as well. Even Claudia to a degree.

Anyway, uh. End of essay. Bye.

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hussyknee · 11 months

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cant put my finger on it, but Taylor Swift feels like walking racial microaggression

#it's not even the fact that she let herself become a white supremacist idol without telling them to fuck off #and when asked why she didn't she said she was from Nashville where the Dixie Chicks were a cautionary tale #meanwhile she had no qualms calling out sexism in the industry #but white supremacy was too far apparently #but leaving aside all of that‚ she's so fucking aggressively mediocre #and her 'girl gang' is just rich thin white women #let's not forget that racist Wildest Dreams video shall we?#she's talented and worked hard yeah but her parents are rich and connected as hell #also Swifties are some of the most obnoxious fucking people in music fandom #who get mad when WoC queer women and leftists can't stand her #the whole private jet thing was just icing on the cake tbh #Casey McQuiston had one throwaway line in RWRB where the MoC and Jewish girl dissed her #and half the white queers took that personally #Jesus fuck #let people hate rich thin white women #I mean heck I like Ed Sheeran's music but I don't take it personal when other people don't #then again I don't get idolising celebrities #just because I love someone's music doesn't mean I give much of a shit about them as people #these are objectively complete randos no matter what you think you know about them #anti Taylor swift #people with T-Swift hate blogs also dni #this post is about casual white privilege not whatever weird obsessive shit you got going on #white women #racism #white privilege #knee of huss

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petpluto · 1 year

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Xander proposing at the end of season 5, and then not telling anyone for the summer and struggling in season 6 makes complete sense to me.

Forget that this is a 20/21 year old. This is a guy who has had a good year, in season 5. He’s gone from being listless and feeling left behind by his friends who have gone to college to having a good job. Not just a job, a career path. His skills have been *noticed*. He’s gotten a promotion, a pay bump, and the respect of his boss. He’s gotten out of his abusive parents’ basement. He is flying high and feeling good. And he proposes, because it’s not going to be the end of the world. He proposes to Anya because he doesn’t just have faith Buffy will save them all again - he knows it. Just like he knows the sun will rise tomorrow, he knows Buffy will save the world.

And then she does, but she dies doing it. One of the people Xander loves most, one of the only people I think he legitimately considers family, dies. Dies saving them. And they all just… stop. Willow, Xander, Giles, Dawn… they stop. They are existing but not living. And it’s grief and it’s guilt and it’s the promise that they’re going to get Buffy back that keeps them in stasis. And Xander doesn’t want to tell the gang he got engaged, not when it’s the gang minus Buffy, not when they plan to make the gang whole again soon. They get her back, and it’s not time now, either, because Buffy is back but she’s also not herself. She’s hurting and quiet and separate from them in a way that was never true before. They brought Buffy back, but the gang isn’t whole. Not yet. And then he feels compelled to tell them all that he’s engaged, when the Buffy who came back starts to feel like normalcy, when everyone is together and he sees this amazing woman he wants to spend the rest of his life with.

But then the rest of the year happens. He felt sure footed when he proposed; Xander knew who he was and where he was going. But since then, it’s been one blow after another. Buffy’s death, learning they ripped her from heaven, Tara and Willow breaking up, Willow struggling with magic… Everything is whispering to him the good times don’t last. He doesn’t get to keep the good things in his life. Not Buffy, not Willow. Not Anya. Xander came so far from being that abused kid hiding from his father in his basement, or camping out in the back yard on Christmas; but he starts feeling dragged back down in it. He is the screw up. He is the problem. He could be his father, might be like his father, is like his father. He could hurt the one person he wants to spend the rest of his life with - he is going to be the death of her. Anya starts planning their wedding, and every family member he has pushes this funhouse mirror closer and closer until it feels like it’s just a mirror. Like it’s reflecting his reality.

Xander wanted to be married to Anya, but he didn’t want Anya to be married to him. Not the him he feared he was or the man he worried about becoming. And I wish season 6 had done more with that, because the storyline runs deep through all of the preceding seasons and shines brightly in Hell’s Bells.

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iron-sides · 5 months

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Wrote a little future thing taking place after the roadtrip fic 👍🏻when i say they're all living in each others pockets i mean if mary or tim was even slightly less devoted to being ruthlessly polite Mary would've been subjected to live footage of every last one of these bitches

Mary looks at her boss through the windows into his office, looks back at the calendar he’s just sent her, and then back at her boss. Shakily, she reaches for the phone.

“Sir,” she starts when she hears the click, “Are you sure this is the correct calendar.”

Mr. Drake huffs, as is his right as Obnoxiously Rich Fuck #7 and CEO of the company. He’s a very busy man. “I only have the one. What’s wrong with it?” “It’s just— it seems very full, sir. Should I be seeing every time you go to Metropolis for a haircut?” Mary takes deep breaths. Rage. Good, that’s good, hang on to that. Be polite and be angry that’s the best defense when it comes to… whatever’s wrong with this one. She survived Mr. Wayne, if only for a year and she didn’t even call him Brucie once no matter how many times he asked her to. Remain professional, keep the job, pay off Mom’s mortgage. All things are possible through frosty polite fronts and frequent trips to the rage room down the street.

“Oh! That’s not me. This is a shared calendar with some… friends. Of mine.” WHY DID HE SAY IT LIKE THAT. Mary smells fish. “You only need to worry about anything in green, and it would be greatly appreciated if any appointments you added were in green as well.”

“I see. You’ve given me, your personal assistant, access to a personal calendar you share with,” she counts, under her breath, “let me see, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven? Seven other people?” Deep breaths. Deep, calming breaths.

“Yeah, that sounds right. Actually, I have some free time right now, I can run you through them? Might help you to know who’s who.”

In what fucking world would she have time for this. “Sure, Mr. Drake, if you think so. I’ll be in in a moment, just have to send this email.”

With a click, he hangs up the phone. Not even a goodbye?— She’s going to kill him Why is he getting up. Mr. Drake opens the door to his office, grabs the chair on the other side of the damn room, drags it around next to her, and sits down in it. “Easier if I come to you, I think. Hello, Mary.”

“Hello, Mr. Drake.” She glares, hits send, and switches tabs to the calendar from hell. “What is this.”

“Okay.” He starts. He stops. He tries again. “So, several friends and I all ended up sharing one personal calendar several years ago because it made organizing get togethers easier. Two of us are just so busy this was the simplest solution.”

He begins naming people— the friends, apparently— and pointing at colors. “Okay, so Cassie’s yellow, Conner’s blue, Bart’s lime green, Anita’s purple, Bo is black, Greta’s brown. You don’t need to worry about them as a rule, they’re not famous or involved with business or anything, and none of them live in Gotham anyway although Cassie, Kon, and Bart visit all the time.” He points at a red event labeled— Mary does a double take— Olympics Practice— “Cissie’s red. Cissie is Cissie King-Jones, she’s an actress and Olympic athlete. You generally don’t need to worry about her activities, but when she’s in Gotham I won’t be availible until she leaves. We typically have a few events together that you’ll see but if it’s not both I’m not free. She’ll never be in town longer than a week, though, unless there’s some kind of emergency.”

He’s friends with Cisssie King-Jones. Like, from Wendy. And the Olympics. Okay! Okay, cool, this is fine. “And how did you all meet?”

He stares at her. “Well, Cissie and I met because Bruce knows her mom’s ex. Bart’s and Cassie’s cousins are friends with Dick, Bo’s and Anita’s dads know Bruce and Conner’s brother, and we actually met Greta’s brother first but he was an asshole. It’s obviously more complicated than that but we were all like fourteen. It wasn’t that big a deal.”

She blinks at him. Sure! Fine! This may as well happen! “Okay! Thanks for the explanation, I’ll let you get back to work, now.”

He leaves. She adds an appointment, and color codes it green.

#my thots #mary is a throwaway oc btw i respect tam too much to make her put up with this #my fic #this isnt Enough for me to bother putting it on ao3 <- its not rlly a fully story its barely a complete thought ->#however ! i like it enough to put it on tumblr #tim drake #dc comics #fanfiction #young justice 1998 #young justice mention !#<33 they

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sadquickchristmassnowman · 9 months

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question for you all

(the husband is NOT abed. important info)

(read the tags for my “abbreviated” thoughts If You So Desire)

#because like #obviously he’s gay like I think we all agree his character makes no sense unless you read him as gay #so him having a wife would likely completely counteract all that queer coding and just be. completely wrong for him #which would be difficult to watch tbh #BUT #if he has a husband it means the writers acknowledge his queerness but are ignoring what that means for his relationship with abed #like they’re just making him gay for representation points and giving him some throwaway husband character #voltron style #actually both of these options are kinda voltron style tbh #but one of them is referencing klance and one is referencing shiro or whatever his name is #I’ve never actually seen that show thank god that migjt be too much for me #ANYWAY I got very sidetracked #so yeah him having a husband would also be. ouchie. like what about abed. what about everything theyve been through #what abouuuut trust #jesus christ okay that’s enough tags #just curious abt yalls thoughts on this #community #nbc community #community nbc #abed nadir #troy barnes #trobed #troy and abed #community tv #six seasons and a movie #community movie

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mayhaps-a-blog · 8 months

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Rereading Heir to the Empire (for... reasons), and this time I found the 20th Anniversary Edition as an ebook (my physical copy is in storage :( ). Which means commentary from Zahn, which is fun, but I also get to hear about all the bits that got run over by the prequels... and the bits that didn't, out of sheer dumb luck.

And honestly, some of it fits surprisingly well! I ran into the first Clone Wars quote, and not only did Zahn save himself a retcon by using "faced" instead of "fought" (he'd assumed, logically, that the clones were fighting the Republic), but the reputation for early clones to be mentally and emotionally unstable actually makes perfect sense - if you consider the effect of Order 66.

Consider: men like Pellaeon, who value order and discipline and loyalty about all else, watched the clones fight well and truly and all that. But by the end of the war, cracks are starting to show - one clone shoots their general in the back, another goes mad, it's revealed the Kaminoans needed chips to control things like "aggression", and barely a few months - weeks? - later, the clones turn on their commanders in a second and massacre them all.

And then after, some of them panic and claim that they didn't mean to, they were controlled, it was the chips that made them do it.

Even if it was under orders, troops that turn on their commanders in seconds would make any commander nervous. And the easiest way to excuse the claims about the chips would be to counter claim that those clones are just unstable, paranoid, their minds breaking down under poor cloning practices. Working out the kinks in earlier models, cutting corners in the later, you know how it goes, right?

Twenty, thirty years down the line, everyone remembers the clones as unstable, untrustworthy soldiers - not like the loyal, upstanding stormtroopers - and who's left to say differently?

#and a win for zahn!#congrats on the throwaway line #you got a lot out of the outbound flight one #but it's impressive how well they fit #with not even your own work #star wars continuity is always impressive to me #in legends especially #because as often as it's not there #there's so many times when it all fits together seamlessly #and by completely different authors and timelines!#star wars #clone wars #heir to the empire #captain pellaeon #order 66 #clones #thrawn trilogy #htte

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andrevasims · 7 months

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#completely unrelated to anything this is just a throwaway hood for testing/copying using a downloaded terrain #it just happens to have messed up roads #ts2 #sims 2 #the sims 2

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transfemmes · 1 month

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Station claiming I've doxxed someone I don't even know on an app I don't even use what do I even say

#💖#the liar. it is lying.#but to its credit I did completely forget about that one throwaway comparison to Ezra a while ago when I was first dm'd my bad

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arashi-no-saxlphone · 8 days

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Hhh... I like people I think. I thought I just didn't like people for a long time but the longer I live and the harder I try, the more people I find that I DO like. Some of them are complete strangers. Some of them I've never even SPOKEN to directly. But I look at the way someone posts about something silly, or I stare at a piece of art or drawing, or read a little post that discusses a feeling or experience and it's like

Do you know how beautiful you are? The post you made or the art you drew that you threw out into the wide cavern of the world thinking "oh whatever it's just a little thing I'm putting out there in the void" bounced and echoed and reverberated its way all the way to my little shadowy corner and made me stand in the dark. Made me rise and feel like it could be done. Life could be lived. That all the little scraps of me are in fact a person that can shout and make an echo that reverberates along the world's walls, all the way back to you, or anyone.

All that reverberates that way is so important to me. Don't ever stop sharing whatever you create - you truly can't know how far your echo will travel, or just how beautiful the sound will be when it reaches someone desperate to hear it.

#sairambles #general post #feeling things looking at art and thinking about how many little interactions on here have changed the way I think #or view things #or myself #sorry this is a really silly post I don't know how much sense it makes or how comprehensible it is #but I hope in some way the feeling gets across #I was looking at a page of doodles someone drew based on a suggestion I made and uh #looking for a really long time at the lines and the scratches of pen made me emotional #I know that sounds completely ridiculous but I just started thinking #about how a flimsy throwaway conversation or connection can become the catalyst for creation #and I like looking at the doodle and it makes me feel happy #and I think to myself #“If I look hard enough I can find and see and feel the connections to people I thought weren't possible for me”#art means a lot to me I guess I think things mean more than we realize sometimee #I am a homo obsessed with symbolism and metaphor like that one post talks about I guess

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imperial-agent · 8 months

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The Raven Queen's eyes witness those beyond the Shadows, her lost ravens. I have kept her gaze fixed on the Abyss for now, but a heavy, cold breath just behind my head, of source unknown, causciously reminds me of how precious little time we have got left in these lands, my Shiver. Or perhaps it is your absence, a phantom presence at my side that is the cause of this uneasiness. But I remain resolute nonetheless. You will not see me fail for I wish not to see you give in to this sickness. Hasten with your search and do not stray from the course. We shall yet cast a shadow beneath our feet. Together.

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #made a throwaway durge with a he who was looking guardian a few weeks ago #and now im on page 16 deep in the google doc writing elaborate backstory of their time back in the shadowfell......#like a normal person.#like im not even paying attention to the main story im roleplaying some completely different storyline i made up in my head heheh e #i have not been this invested in this game since august 3rd #I. AM. SO. EXCITED. you dont even understand #plus it's a welcome break from the regular tavs to just fuck around as durge #//also what is grammar i'm too feverish from my period to make sure everything sounds like it was written by a human bean #myedit #bg3 #the dark urge #he who was #oc:#isiva

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nonsequitur22 · 3 months

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Emhyr buddy, wyd

#when was anybody gonna tell me that Geralt sees an illusion of the Emperor of Nilfgaard strolling around the Land of a Thousand Fables #completely in the buff #like #of course Geralt is gonna think of this the next time he runs into Emhyr #why has this not been included in any AO3 fic yet #even as a throwaway line #guess i've got to add it into my one shot #witcher 3 #nonsequitur games

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can-i-see-your-passport-please · 7 months

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If you told me someone would genuinely try to argue to me that this series is completely unserious, and everything, INCLUDING EVERYTHING IN THE FUCKING CLONE FIGHT (INCLUDING THE MAIN CHARACTER'S SUICIDE ATTEMPT) was a joke I would think you're setting up a strawman but LO AND FUCKING BEHOLD

#cassie rambles #not maintagging this bc. yeah #tw suicide #suicide tw #suicide #they tried to tell me that everything in the clone fight was a joke #(bro nothing about it was played for a joke what the fuck)#that gord trying to kill himself was a throwaway line that never came up again #(there are about six instances altogether in the edited down videos of gord expressing suicidal thoughts)#and they tried to tell me that there are a lot of fucked up jokes in the series like the characters killing everyone #(what.)#anyway if they're reading this post #please block me lmao #i don't want to interact with you as i don't like you at all #thinking that a character trying to kill himself in a scene that was played completely straight was a JOKE is so stupid and insensitive #please learn what it means when a scene is played straight #yes this series is a comedy. yes that scene was completely serious.#no a character attempting suicide on screen isn't a fucking JOKE #wtf is wrong with you lmao

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kradogsrats · 7 months

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"what happens to King Atticus" yeah yeah whatever he's the king who cares... now what happens to PERRAN???

my 100% correct theory that I will not be accepting constructive criticism about: he and Opeli got married and he retired to stay home and raise their 6 children

#for real though: what happens to atticus #given that one completely bonkers throwaway line like 'we've dealt with plenty of assassins before'#i kind of wonder if he was actually also assassinated #but losing two kings in a row to assassination is not a great look for a kingdom lmao

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tteenagepetulance · 2 years

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THROWAWAY ARCHIVE;

was working on a DEBUT redesign but didn't love it in the end. inspired by tactile use of scenery to convey an album title, here being the physical poster beside her. the sleeve is one of taylor's old guitars from debut era. the vinyl is clear with bright teal splatter effect and a peach-gold splotch i just couldn't get to look right. ily debut im sorry for my failure xo

#tsedit #taylornation #taylor swift #taylorswiftedit #candy swift #tswiftedit #myedit #throwawayarchive #when i cant look at something anymore in my drafts it gets posted to throwaway tag lmao #myedit tag is an effigy to my inability to complete anything aygweduio

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izzyizumi · 8 months

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Digimon Adventure Last Evolution: Kizuna ("Bonds") ~ Koushiro{u} Izumi & Menoa Bellucci + Koushiro's Resistance

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