#bc thats not even remotely a line?

[robot-singularity]

world's worst pick up line

#lom #life on mars #i was cracking up so bad at that part #bc thats not even remotely a line? #also just got done w s1 onto s2! #also also! if my handwriting isnt the clearest #sam says “i think im in a coma” #and annie replies “bet you say that to all the girls lol” #my art #my doodles

[turnstechgodhead]

ok to the anon thats talkin w me about mental eelness and bro and the "knight of time" line:

id post your entire ask but its Very Long and im struggling to answer all of it in a way that isnt fucking with my head and anxiety so im going to answer with only the character analysis stuff HERE on this post my apologies

for the record i dont even remotely know how to begin tagging this mess down here and i really think itd be better suited for my nsfw blog but yall aint asking about this on that blog which is fair take care of yourselves

JSYK it's stuff about brocal/intrusive thoughts about inc st and c s a SO kids please avert your eyes for my comfort thank YOU

i dont personally have ocd afaik but as someone who Has intrusive thoughts (actual horrifying ones that dirk, gabe and i have to beat back with a stick, not the ones kids think are intrusive thoughts today)

i definitely think that's how bro approaches raising dave; overcompensating for the accusations from his mind and cal[iborn] leading to total icing him out

okay same anon who was asking abt the “i was raising the knight of time” line. you saying “caliborn made [bro] believe that platonic affection is in fact not platonic at all and is instead sexual[the implications when bro is constantly carrying around cal with his arms around his neck btw. insane.]” is fascinating. is this based off the fact that caliborn thinks even hugging or a kiss on the cheek is “filthy?” it makes me think about ocd/bipolar disorder/misc mental illnesses and intrusive thoughts. i have bipolar and im a huge softie for kids but my intrusive thoughts sometimes try to convince me that my affection is somehow sinister.

YES very much

i need to describe to you my thoughts on brocal really quick bc i think that'll help put it in perspective and idk how else to talk about it;

heres the thing

cal is both bro's boyfriend and his fucking family okay

imagine you're a kid and you have this puppet friend that speaks to you using silly words and tells you that you should eat glass maybe :) or cut your fingers off or tear off your own head and hes the only thing thats taking care of you as a person even if hes mean

he tells you that people touching is inappropriate and vulgar and he cant believe theyre doing that in public (but its okay if we hug and cuddle you know?)

but also as you grow up this puppet starts calling you weird shit like stud or hunky or what the hell ever and maybe. youre going to kiss him

this puppet is the only thing you care about because hes the only thing that cares about you youve been with him for years and years and he talks to you and hes all that matters and now youre obsessed with him and you dont know when that happened but you have an obsessive personality anyway

youll do anything for him. (let me kill for you)

hes the only person you love because you dont love roxy this way (consuming, overwhelming, obligating to do what he wants, because he's all you have)

and well shit

if cals telling you that youre a freak for wanting to cuddle on the baby like you did that once (call it the knight it helps keep your distance) then i guess you're a fucking freak because its not even your right to treat it as family anyway; it's bigger than you. it's more than you will ever be and you need to make sure it doesn't fucking die and apparently that involves at least a little bit of affection cal please understand(what a disgusting species)

#mumbling #brocal #homestuck #bro strider #tsgzv #tsgw #gabe and dirk are my mind parasites btw #PLEASE dont call me a system #timaeus posting

[dateamonster]

what’s your opinion on the love magic in strange magic?

ok so at the time that i first watched strange magic, i was very much not into the whole love potion trope, and i do think i carried that sorta gut feeling into the movie with me. in retrospect, i think its a fun little device that in this context makes apparent how much this story took inspiration from midsummers night dream, which i think is kind of amazing.

but further than that!! the love potion and its place in the story is soo fascinating to me now looking back bc its one of the MANY things in strange magic that it feels like they didnt think through AT ALL, and once you do think it through, it raises a ton of compelling questions. like, the existence of a potion that can make you fall hopelessly in love by its nature forces you to think about consent, and by extension its presence in the story forces you to reckon with the fact that multiple main characters, not even just the villain, make the decision to override another persons autonomy in a pretty objectively upsetting way!! thats crazy to me! i love it!!

like with barely a few lines of dialog we learn that at some point in his youth the bog king was so desperate to be loved and so certain that this couldnt be achieved by typical means that he tried to basically bewitch someone, and that when she realized what had almost happened she was so horrified she presumably left his life forever, and that bk has lived with that guilt and the bone-deep belief that he is inherently unlovable ever sense, and then we just fucking move on! the implications there are nuts! hes a king, and canonically has multiple goblin women vying for his attention. what fucking happened to get him to stoop that low? what happened to him after? we will never know! and thats not even getting into sunnys or the imps whole deal.

im just a little obsessed with how like the entire story hinges on this single essential element and as a result this sillygoofy fantasy romance movie becomes kind of implicitly a story about autonomy and desire? and they never even rly define the terms of the magic beyond "true love overrides the potion" so it brings up all these questions about what constitutes "true love" in the first place that of course are never even remotely touched on. idk it compels me! it rly does!

#ask #strange magic #im out slurping up loose threads like spagebbi

[johannestevans]

the thing about being trans is that like. i consider myself a gay man before i consider myself a trans man. like my identity as a homosexual man is far more important to me and to my life than being trans

the fact that i'm a faggy guy who LOVES other men and adores queer masculinity is crucial to me

and it's interesting navigating that w other trans ppl bc like... it's not about my sexuality > my gender

it's that being a gay man and loving other men IS my gender. it's not just a generic manhood, it's certainly not remotely the same as cishet men's masculinity

being effete and faggy is in itself a transgressive masculinity, even were it not for my being transgender. and that's what's funny i think about some ppl who get shirty about my identifying with and being in community with men who love men and prioritising that

bc they see manhood (and some even see masculinity) as inherently patriarchal and in line with like. values of oppression or lack of emotion or whatever

like some people are like "oh im a BOY, but not a MAN", or "oh im masc but not a man" etc bc being A Man to them would mean like, giving up the colour in their life, or whatever, which is fine for them and their identity if thats what feels right

but to me it's the complete opposite

#musings

[parkerlyn]

I'm sorry Parker. I really am. I try so hard to be accepting of these new things and whatnot, but it's still very hard. I apologize for ranting, it was all just so very shocking. Oisein was the only character that held my interest as I was attempting to go for a hate all humans route (although I'm not even sure if thats included in the game) and run off with Oisein into the sunset, but now I'm just not sure.. the exile is the only game I've ever read where I even remotely thought the nb character was attractive bc of personality so who knows... perhaps my views will change..

I get needing to challenge internalized views and to hopefully have opportunities for personal growth - And I hope that never stops for anyone, myself included! But the sentiment still stands : ranting to a stranger on the internet - or ranting to a creator about how their story isn’t meeting your expectations - isn’t appropriate and is not the place where that personal growth is going to happen. Plain and simple it is not their responsibility and is a fast track to crossing a line.

I’ll be the first to admit I’m not perfect, am absolutely prone to mistakes, and I’m sure there’s unconscious biases of my own that I’ll need to continue to challenge too. So I hope that you can also find the space to challenge yourself and dig into your own growth. But please be aware of others’ boundaries as you do.

And I appreciate the apology, but shifting the blame back and saying “but it’s still hard/it was just shocking”/still making it seem like you’ve been slighted by Oisein being nb, is not a great follow up. I am not ruining anyone’s playthrough by deciding my character is nonbinary, and if you still feel that way after thinking on it, this story is not meant for you or anyone with views remotely close to being transphobic. I haven’t personally read The Exile yet, and I can’t speak for the author. But I’m not sure any creator would be super enthusiastic about their character being a uniquely “remotely attractive” nb option to you. Please try to take a good look at where these sentiments are coming from.

Re: The Nameless routes, and just a General PSA again:

I’ve said it a couple times before to set expectations as the story has developed. But while you can start initially disliking them, this IS NOT the game to play if you want to only have a “hate humans/mortalis” playthrough. I want to write about growth and change, not someone being hateful and stubbornly holding onto old beliefs just for the sake of it.

#parker personal #discourse #psa

[angelhummel]

okay so in honor of pride month, i have something i wanna get off my chest for real. sorry if this is super long

I have a tendency to go outside of tumblr spaces when looking at glee content — something i frequently regret. but in my time in those spaces, i often the most delusional take ever. it is basically, “kurt was always kinda pushy towards finn. so did he actually DESERVE to be called a slur??? 🤔🤔🤔 let’s discuss.” this shit boils my blood to no end and while it’s obvious why, i feel the incessant need to defend my boy kurt at all costs.

for one, he wasn’t any more pushy than any other character in the show. i mean for god’s sake, rachel quite literally THREW herself at finn as early as the first episode and i guess that’s fine??? what kurt did was virtually no different bc all the characters do weird, out of pocket shit throughout the show. it really only bothered finn bc kurt is a boy and finn is OVERLY bothered by the prospect of a boy having a crush on him. (more specifically that its kurt — he just simply dislikes kurt being attracted potentially straight guys. thats why he took so much issue to kurt singing with sam. it’s always been about his personal issues with kurt)

moving on to the actual scene in question, so much of what flop accused kurt of was grossly unfair to him. like he says something along the lines of “im scared to even take a shower when youre around,” implying that kurt is some ‘predatory gay’. which is ironic, bc we learn from kurt himself that he never showered after gym JUST to avoid be labelled as something like that. at no point did kurt’s advances move towards remotely ANYTHING sexual in nature, finn just instead assumed that of him

finally, i do believe that flop WANTED to call kurt a slur. he knew that kurt wouldnt call him out for it and you can tell from his tone that that had been building up inside of him for awhile. he wanted something that would push kurt away/scare him. he just went for the cruelest method possible in the moment.

so all this was to basically say that flop hudson sucks and that kurt did not deserve any of the shit that he endured. he was pretty much taught by his peers that it is inappropriate and unacceptable for him to have the same wants and desires that literally any teenager would have simply bc he was gay.

thank you for tuning into my rant. this has been stewing for awhile lmao

lmao yesterday i saw a gifset where cory as finn was doing some good fun acting and i stared at him for like a minute going "if i focus on the cory of it all, can i trick myself into liking finn even a little bit?"

the answer was already no, but if it hadn't been, this ask wouldve set me straight. thank you <3

i've definitely talked about that before tho bc omg. finn has the nerve to call anyone else pushy. i know its not like it'd happened in the show already but. this is the boy setting up a whole kissing booth to manipulate quinn into kissing him aksljfsdlk. or the way he got drunk at the wedding reception in s4 and was hounding rachel. that literally gives me the heebie jeebies lmao sorry to be dramatic about it but i hate it

and god yeah it just breaks my heart bc we know that kurt is always walking on eggshells around these people anyway. and literally 2x04 has become one of my least favorite episodes bc of how hard it is to watch as a kurt stan lmao. sorry it has like two iconic songs but finchel are so fucking manipulative and awful and i've had several rants about this episode before aljsfdlks but basically boils down to them literally making kurt feel like he's committing a crime by asking sam to sing a duet with him and isolating him to an unhealthy degree

and then wanna act all :O four eps later when kurt is like "im getting tf out of here to go to school with people who are nice to me" aslkfdslfjsd

anyway literally just search "2x04 anti finn" on my blog and you will find more posts than you would ever care to read lmao

#glee #lol glee #anti finn hudson #asks #my thoughts #cryscendo #flop hudson

[rise-my-angel]

ok I love your blog bc I love your opinions on the show/ books. As someone who ONLY watched the show and knows a little lore from the books, why are jonsas so crazy???? as far as I’m concerned Jon didn’t really think about Sansa (apart from some worry of her and Arya being in kings landing) until she showed up to castle black and then his happiness at that was because he was like shit I have a little piece of family back. I did not infer that to be romantic at all???? Where are they finding all this supposed subtext of them loving each other? 🤮 she also betrayed him by telling his secret that literally could’ve gotten him killed. How is that “love”

Its even funnier because Sansa in the books has never left the Vale since arriving. She is nowhere NEAR Jons story. Also they basically NEVER think about each other.

Like, Jon only ever thinks of her in terms of "my sisters" when hes lumping both her and Arya in together.

Sansa at first only ever thought about him in a derogatory way, because she was very classist about having a bastard brother and hardly respected him at all. Like wishing Arya was a bastard too so she wouldn't be obligated to care about her as much.

In the books currently she is in disguse as Petyr Baelish's bastard daughter, and only when anothet character talks down to her for being a bastard in the exact way Jons faced his whole life only then did she briefly go "why is he being mean is it cua he thinks I'm a bastard i hate that" without the self awareness that she treated Jon worse then that.

Also, Arya is said to look extremely similar to Jon, and Sansa who looks very Tully, constantly insults Aryas appearance and calling her "so ugly only Hodor would marry her". So what does that tell you what Sansa likely thinks of what Jon looks? Well she thinks Aryas ugly and even comments Arya looks just like Jon ergo she clearly thinks Jon is ugly. (Which is funny considering how many Northerners all say Jon is pretty and handsome).

Basically their interactions in the books is almost non existent, because despite Jon loving all his siblings he was always looked down on by Sansa because he isna bastard. They have no connection what so ever.

I mean in the show before season 6, they're only even in the same FRAME in the shots where all the Starks are lined up to receive the Kings Company and never again.

Their dynamic in season 6 is entirely show fabricated is based on literally nothing. Not from the show or the books. They literally just put Sansa with Jon because they wanted Sansa to be more of a main character and so its easier to do that if shes in Jons story since he is basically the shows protagonist at that point.

But Jonsas are fucking nuts. They point to the most batshit of claims to proove its real and when you look at their so called "evidence" its just a drunk hampster drooling in the floor. There is nothing.

They literally one passed around A LINE FROM A FANFICTION and pretended it was a book quote to justify their ship. They literally have to lie and pretend fanfiction lines are canon to the books thats how much they have to stretch their delusional ship to even remotely make it make sense.

But it doesn't. Cus Jon isn't into incest. So there is no relationship. Also Sansa in the show is nice to him for like 1 episode and then she repeatedly is hostile, argues, shits on him and breaks his trust repeatedly.

I hate pretty much all Jon ships because none of them respect Jon as a character, they just use him as arm candy to make the female look better. But jonsas are a toxic ass breed of shippers.

They genuinely will argue that every single Jon scene ia secretly about Sansa. Meanwhile they never argue every Sansa scene is about Jon.

Because Jon isn't the character they care about in that ship its ONLY Sansa.

It....I could go on for fucking ever.

I hate Jonerys, Jonrya and Jongritte stans. But I hate none of them more then I hate Jonsas. They clog up so much of Jon discussion spaces with their fucking delusional incest fanfiction.

#im coming off as mean but you have to know if your a jonsa that your sub fandom engages in horribly toxic behavior you have to know that #game of thrones #a song of ice and fire #asoiaf #jon snow #anti jonsa #anti sansa stans #anti jonerys #anti jonrya #anti jongritte #just so you other shippers don't get any ideas this post is pro your disgusting toxic ship either #it isnt your ship is also fucking gross

[fisksaturday]

Hi, you probably got asked this a lot about your Nanites Au but I still have to ask, Have you thought in what way does it affect other characters in TSS?

Like, did Wadi, Ulraj or Francis went EVO? I know they probably won't even have a part on the fic but I would like to know if you had any ideas about it or somenthing like that.

Also, I really like your Au, like, there's just a lot of possibilities

i havent thought much about wadi and ulraj to be honest, but i think theyre mostly just going about their business. i feel like since they both kind of live in pretty remote areas they dont deal with very much evo activity. like they definitely encounter some and they do have nanites in them bc thats the nature of genrex universe but i think theyre part of the majority of people/creatures who were unaffected by nanites

as for francis: i mentioned this in a throwaway line i think, but since epsilon and francis's people live on a space station, they weren't on earth during the nanite event and on subsequent visits to earth they wore nanite-proof suits similar to white knight's suit so they wouldn't risk infection. so their people keep nanites out of their bods

#nanite saturdays au #white knight is still the only creature On Earth without nanites in him

[arkhavens]

a brief intro to my(developed) swtor toons alongside what tma entity they would serve+why

Orion Caesus-Kallig

Mostly human, DS Sith Inquisitor, Lightning Sorc, absolutely batshit crazy mad scientist man i love you<33, scary smart but entirely willing to let people underestimate him in that regard. im hovering somewhere between end, eye, and extinction for him. the end is the obvious one for any inquis tbh, given that its all about both literal and metephorical endings(death, ghosts/spirits, abandonment, silence, etc). Eye as well is incredibly on the nose for any inquisitor, with it being mainly knowledge(knowing+being known, being watched, secrets, etc). Exinction is the most interesting one for him, and the one im leaning towards the most. Considering the inquis is literally remade i think twice over the course of the story, technically being part bug bc of the balmorra mission, and technically being part rakata bc of the mother machine, the whole Massive change/ Something Other thing really fits him. and personally idk why but ive always associated the extinction w/ lightning and smog which is just really fun for a ds lightning sorc

Athanasius(full/actual name pending lol)

Sith Pureblood, LS/Neutral Sith Warrior, allowed himself one(1) moment of insanity[befriending orion], the only one of my swtor characters that is even remotely chill. on a line between hunt and buried for him. on one hand, literally HUNTS down enemies of the empire, and was baras' assassin for the duration of his apprenticeship. on the other, has nearly gotten buried alive so many times, the immense pressure of being unwillingly thrust into the position of Emperor's Wrath. im settling on a mix of both for him but really it could go either way.

Tsali Aluin

Mirialan, DS Jedi Consular, sneaky little cunt, hes so tall so he can fit more horrors inside of himself, evil bastard jedi the beloved<3, has managed to trick the entire council into thinking hes mostly a good person, is ABSOLUTELY NOT, is at a point in his life where hes honestly just seeing exactly how blatantly evil he can be before they notice. web/slaughter 110%. manipulative, a bitch, kills people just to get away with it.

Zalos Kahe

Togruta, Neutral/DS Jedi Knight. had a major fall from grace, wanted to be good So Badly and tried So Hard but being steeped in the darkside and having the literal sith emperor in ur head for 6months leaves a MARK. after that whole Thing™️, he's so So angry at everything, and the council only seems to acknowledge him when They need something of him, and Scourge is right there saying everything he "needs" to hear. mans didnt just fall he lept off a cliff. definitely Desolation/slaughter. The burning rage, everything he lost/had ripped away vs being forced for months to kill and kill and Kill, and then once youve broken free of that control still turning to that violence because with everything stripped away its the one thing thats still familiar.

#i feel like this is a fun way to introduce my current developed swtor pcs #bc tma is that one media that once you consume it #it haunts you for the rest of your life and you cant consume any other media w/o linking back to it #swtor #swtor oc #tma entities #i know this is like uber niche but hey it was rattling around in my head so #my posts

[obsessednotepad]

ok its like 4 am when i’m writing this but I literally can’t sleep bc im thinking ABOUT THOSE STUPID FUCKING PUPPETS???

but also thanks for some of the attention on the last post it was way too long but im glad ppl liked reading some of the things that nest up in my brain instead of like useful information :)))

now that that’s said im gonna fuckin KEEP talking about THAT scene AGAIN bc I think a part of my brain still hasn’t comprehended what happened.

I’m not gonna repeat the whole scene again bc by now we’ve all memorized it but I just want to further emphasize WHAT THE FUCK IT (might) MEAN!!! 

idk if im just like surrounded by depressing media (accurate) by the whole fucking idea of someone seeing YOU, perceiving YOU, as YOU are and learning to either live with it or grow to love it in so many different ways is like. going to make me vomit from the sentiment. that’s kinda why im so attached to the scene bc like damn. first you got that line. then you have the context. and then how it’s composed??? how it’s written?? makes it reach the fucking stars. 

Idk how else to explain this. maybe im just like this bc I finally took a film and writing class and now am in full overdrive mode but hot damn. You might think it’s really fuckin weird to have two characters say something equal to “I see you” in the dark when those bitches hardly can see point blank period but......thats like the whole point!!

I don’t HAVE to see you physically to know that I CAN SEE YOU for who YOU are- I have seen you as the form you take but what it holds inside is something to stare at in awe. 

how long? well it doesn’t matter, we’re in the dark and no one has to see a thing we do. 

It’s also such an intimate and private moment without it being inherently sexual like in most media or films- I find it so sweet 

and it’s not even that fuckin deep tho compared to some other scenes that I could look into but regardless I like this scene the most. yeah bc its like really gay (like...gay gay homosexual gay) but idk- its just such a connecting moment and I swear if we get another season and they do not remotely address it ever again I will probably start violently sobbing. :)

Edit: so uh I just saw some confirmation that one of the producers really enjoys the ship and is encouraging more of it so. Big win for the gays today.

#dhmis #obsessed thinks sometimes #jfc I could go all day and night apparently talking about these two mfs #dhmis red guy #dhmis duck #gayest motherfuckers you've ever seen #dhmis fluffybird #dhmis fandom

[turnstechgodhead]

well regardless of where you got it from i really love that line, i think it adds an interesting angle to their relationship. what do you think bro knew about the nature of the game and dave’s destiny for him to think of raising dave that way? im also curious about the subject matter of the fics you may have gotten inspiration from

thanks i think so too

i dont remember unfortunately; in regards to the fics. i dont really read fics nowadays and i do tend to read short ones to avoid This happening- where i absorb something and forget about it

more about bro under cut

i feel like bro knew some things; i like to keep certain parts of the 'game' aspect of their reality away from them

like for example: bro doesn't know EVERYTHING about what hes supposed to do. like he wasnt spawned in with I am A Guardian in his brain; he was a whole ass human person for 24 years until he got dave

growing up a lot of his information came from cal because since he was destined to be a guardian, he had nagging feelings in the back of his mind telling him to do certain things: get this apartment, do this that way, etc. and cal just enforced those

i think dirk's reason for raising dave that way is a combintion of the fact that thats the only way cal(iborn) referred to dave and that bro was never allowed to actually bond with dave (because caliborn made him believe that platonic affection is in fact not platonic at all and is instead sexual[the implications when bro is constantly carrying around cal with his arms around his neck btw. insane.])

i've talked about it a lil bit with input from error707-thatdude (whos training to dooooo... something w psychological development of kids or something? sorry i forgored) on stream and the lack of interaction/affection can be potentially fatal to human children

so every time dirk wanted to do what honestly, his instincts were telling him to do (hold dave, be gentle [even if stiff]) , he wasn't able to because he had caliborn in his ear whispering that he was being deeply fucking inappropriate with his goddamn son which . Jesus Christ. (ive come to the conclusion bc of this that the daves we see in canon are the daves that made it past childhood, as error707 said: the exceptions)

the fact that caliborn constantly told him about how dave was the knight and he needed to be the knight. he needed to enter the medium. if he didn't enter the medium then everything that dirk's entire life has been leading up to has been a disappointment, a mistake, and he doesn't want to disappoint his very dear best friend cal does he? hee hee hee.

he also told him about how dave is SUPPOSED to be. cool, stoic. that kinda stuff, bc calibrn has a bit of a gay thing for both of them im sure.

+ the deep feeling inside of dirk that he Knew cal was right (something something; destiny/fate/will of the universe/etc), that dirk existed to do this; to get cal into the medium, to get dave into the medium, to make them stronger, led to dirk thinking of dave as his goal instead of anything remotely resembling family-

all of that accumulates into his brain dissassociating dave from himself as family and instead as a goal and a figure of something he NEEDS to polish or it wont work when the gear is inserted into the frame

things like this are delicate and they HAVE to be taken special care of during assembly, or you'll be left with nothing. (go watch how its made- wristwatches. its like that.)

sorry if all this doesnt make sense; feel free to ask for clarification and ill happily provide

#homestuck #bro strider #beta dirk strider #mumbling #tsgw #tsgzv

[dominique-mini]

@bookwermthings you asked me to describe jack's coat during torchwood so;;; alright lets do that i guess

but listen: im just saying things i know for a fact from the top of my head so YEAH it'll be a bit vague and im not putting photos of the coat here. im terribly sorry but im writing this during my lunch break

OKAY lets begin: first off really quick we gotta talk about the first coat. The greatcoat Jack wore in The Empty Child was actually a REAL historical greatcoat from the 40s! It isn't clear but what it seems is that Jack was intended to be just an one-off character so they thought it would be okay to get a real coat, since they're a relatively common piece to find among ww2 memorabilia ( fun fact: that's why that coat seems a little bit too big for jack, it wasn't actually made to fit him. also because that was some THICC fabric right there but it was definetely too big for him)

the coat wasn't accurate to the year set in the episode (those shoulder boards are not even remotely close to the year 1941) nor to the character. the thing about those coats is that higher-ranking officers had enough money to have one made for them from scratch, those were known as "private purchases". therefore, private purchases tended to differ a lot from the ones produced en-masse since they were made from different tailors chosen by different officers.

the coat jack was wearing had a LOT of unique features about it (i wont even start) so i think it's safe to say it was a private purchase. however, the rank braids (those vertical blue lines in his shoulders) indicate that the coat belonged to a squadron leader, NOT a captain.

with all of this in mind, the first coat is still the most historic accurate greatcoat Jack wears.

moving on, when torchwood began and jack ended up not being an one-off character, they had to make a new coat. using a real historic piece is great for one episode, but it clearly won't last for an entire show. buttons fall, it can rip apart, yadda yadda yadda. besides, a real military coat is too heavy to blow heroically as Jack walks. that didnt actually happen in the 40s sorry to disappoint you.

To design the brand new coat, ray holman (torchwood's costume designer) took inspiration from that first coat, the most notable changes being:

FABRIC: RAF coats were initially made from thick wool bc yknow europe is cold. however, john had some sensorial issues with wool, so they changed to moleskin, which is made out of cotton. it is a much lighter fabric than wool, you can see that looking at the lapel. (another fun fact: for what I noticed with MY eyes, it seems like the coat was designed big enough to fit around a full military uniform. like, the whole thing, not just the shirts he uses throughout the whole show. i wonder what they were planning with that.

BUTTONS: the buttons per say are alright but like. the placement??? was in V shape??? Basically that makes the lapels look narrower and that when it's buttoned, the collar doesn't cover the rows of buttons completely like the real ones did. In MY personal opinion i think it was such a creative addition and it looked amazing, but indeed isn't very historically accurate.

LINING: whilst the old coat was half-linned, more specifically around the upper body, this one has aaaaaaall the lining you can ask for. top to bottom baby those are some LINES. it was made with grey......... thread (dont ask me about materials. i am a history student not a master tailor im just trying to finish eating my lunch in time to come back to work. those lines were GREY and thats all im giving u)

RANKING: they changed the rank braids to the ones used by group captains !!! besides the whole thing is a bit longer than the past one (not creating another point just to say that) not because of any historic reason i think. It's definetely more dramatic, though.

THAT is by far the most famous coat Jack wears, since it's present for Torchwood season 1-3 and all of his appearances in RTD's who

the third coat was created exclusively for Miracle Day, and i wont describe it because it didn't stick for long (and i really just watched miracle day once and analyzed this one almost entirely through low quality GIFs). besides ive only got a few minutes left to swallow my food and run desperately back to my room

so yeah those were the three coats he wore and the main features i could remember right now, i hope my venting wasn't too boring and it genuinely interested you. also sorry about any mistakes in grammar, i didnt revise any of this

#torchwood #captain jack harkness

[jinmalos]

id love to hear your thoughts on the teaser for wave 4

OK OK OK OK. I MEANT TO GET TO THIS SOONER BUT THEN I GOT CARRIED AWAY WITH SOME ZINES AND SOME OTHER PROJECTS. BUT, I just finished speedrunning the game for my sibling to catch them up, Future Redeemed comes out tomorrow, I am Not A Normal Person About This Game.

Spoilers below, not particularly thought out bc i've given myself a headache from finishing the game and sobbing my eyes out again as of 3 hours ago

I. Genuinely have a lot of thoughts and they've changed a bit since it was announced and the subsequent trailers we've had, as well as refreshing myself on XBC1 and XBC2 lore since then. I will start with my joke theory, For the longest time I had a joke that boiled down to "Alvis is Riku and he's really enjoying larping as a nopon rn." Why the fuck would that nopon know so much. NOW, I'm more in the "give me the name of your god you nopon piece of shit." who is this fucker loyal to. IS IT MELIA? IM P SURE ITS MELIA. BUT LIKE. STILL WHO TF IS HE. WHY DOES HE KNOW SO MUCH. WHAT HAS HE BEEN UP TO.

Also! I'm not actually sure how I'm feeling on this game being a prequel! I'm not fully convinced it is yet even though thats EXACTLY what it looks like. Part of me really wants an epilogue to the base game's story or at MOST something that is running concurrently. It's not that I dislike prequels, I LOVED torna i've genuinely played torna all the way through upwards of 6 times by now. It's just really enjoyable. I just kinda wanna know what happens...AFTER the plot. But I'm not gonna be DISAPPOINTED if it genuinely turns out to be a prequel.

Madly in love with A's design, I think someone may have transed their gender =w=

Jokes/wishful thinkin aside, I wonder if Ontos will be playing a role in this. Alvis claims to be from a long line of seers, I wondered if maybe the Processor that is Ontos has just been spitting out random entities and A + the mystery White Alvis are just consequences. I wanna know how Z ties into that. I also wanna know where everyone..IS. Like, where is Fiora or Reyn, or Pyra and Mythra, or even fucking Morag or Tora. No mention of them, so i'm curious to know...why. Shulk is clearly Shulk here, and Rex is clearly Rex, If they aren't part of the cycle there HAS to be an explanation as to how they're in Aionios and what happened to everyone else, right?

I'm excited to see what's up on that front though. I refuse to believe that Alvis has become evil, not because I think it's implausible, but just because i dont want that evil Alvis to be Alvis because his concept art is WHITE. My opinions on Alvis being DIRECTLY Ontos have shifted to being a bit more..flexible on the concept because of A and the revealed mystery character, but in my heart he's still directly Ontos and I hope the Shalvis Divorce Arc ends happily.

Wishful thinking, of course, is that i'd like to see the Trinity Processors reunited in some way, shape, or form. I love joking about Aegis Sibling Family Reunions/Learning Where tf Ontos is, but I'll admit the ending of xbc2 is a bit ambiguous on what exactly happens with Logos and Pneuma and how that relates to Ontos OR the continued existence of Pyra and Mythra. I'll actually be really sad if there's no way they can be reunited/bummed if something's happened to Pyra and Mythra as of a result of the ending of xbc2. I just kinda want Malos to get a minor redemption arc or st least know if the Logos and Pneuma cores of the Trinity Processor was relevant at all.

BUT YEAH. IM SO EXCITED. VERY, VERY EXCITED. I'm sad this is the end of the Klaus arc of Xenoblade/the Xeno series, but I'm excited to see where we go next! If this wave 4 dlc is even remotely as good as base xbc3, it'll be an excellent ending to such a good series!

#xenoblade chronicles 3 #xbc3 #xenoblade chronicles #xbc3 spoilers #xenoblade chronicles 3 future redeemed #this is incomprehensible but im so so sorry if its way too incomprehensible

[megatron-fucks]

oh weirdly tho i just found myself way ahead of schedule for the big bang fic. a few hours ago i was struggling to catch up and now im like "wait ive only got like four scenes left to write i think?"

and one of them i already have a rough draft

but thats good bc it gives me heaps of time to edit

i currently have a lot of lines that read "A [whatever] transplant was barely even a two-person operation: the only benefit from a third pair of hands was that someone could remotely [whatever]."

#fic stuff #tf big bang #pharma fic

[mostlymalena]

Tuesday March 26th 3:26pm

Hello I know I know it's been some time. lots of spelling errors coming your way. I have started carrying around a little notebook so I can write down snippets of things that have happened so I can remember to write about them later. here we go

lets start with Saturday night. The usual group goes out and grace comes since we were close to getting back together (more on that later). We meet up with my good friend Ava at BP. Earlier in the week she posted on her story a picture of me calling me her crush as a joke bc we fuck off a lot and are idiots (love). This bitch Belle who I have hated since the day I fucking met her which was well well over a year ago.

Okay wait context: when me and P were dating his brothers formed a cutie little band and they needed a singer and idk I guess belle was friends with one of them but she joined. She always gave me shady vibes and they were reassured by her being fucking weird with P's brother while she had a boyfriend. Me and P used to talk the biggest shit about her and her behavior so all in all she has always rubbed me the wrong way. Well when she found out P and I had broken up (we were still seeing each other mind you) this bitch went full fucking speed clinging to P's dick. Posting him and asking him to hangout just the two of them, buying him things yada yada. Of course I bitched about it to P and he just amped it up bc it made me jealous.

So I have just icky vibes about her and knew they would hook up once P and I finally stopped talking. What do you know, rumor has it they do and no one is surprised at fucking all. Thank god I'm past the point where that caught me up bc it was sickening to hear about. Now it gives me second hand embarrassment. I feel like the first rule of thumb when you have a rebound is to make sure they are at least even remotely on the same level as your ex.

Anyways Ava posted me and Belle's fucking SISTER slide up going on about how I'm crazy and broke into P's house (no lmao just no) and yada yada. I wanna know if they all have so much to say why do you avoid bluepost so damn much??? yap yap yap on the internet and in my friends dm's and all ups and down town but cannot say shit to my face? Typical.

Can someone please let this 2 by 4 with eyes know that I am not a threat to her relationship with an AI generated line cook with 0 passion or excitement about anything that would extend past algebra and chess. Like please. Im so stupid to think everything was chiller. Legit thought everything was fine I was like like oh we both moving on that chill there is no bad blood lmao. WRONG> WREONG WRONG MALENA.

Also to me there is something about being with a man who is only not still fucking with his ex bc SHE moved on first. That just does not sit right with me. P came back from his trip ready to revamp whatever we had before he left and if I hadn't moved on (thankfully) while he was gone then we would still be swimming in the same circle. Whatever girl he has now or next or whatever he got going on that is not my business has got her work cut out for her. Lord have mercy.

I was really okay about it all but now I just feel like frustrated bc I do not understand why it matters much anymore. Miss me or dont but thats on you. Somedays I'm nostolgic about it somedays im not but im also never afraid to own up to my feelings or behavior. Im confused why men fuck with me and are obsessed with me bc im "different" "weird" "crazy" and "love that you dont act nonchalant" but when they cross me and I still behave that way THEN its a problem?

Mistakes are made when men think they are the exception and they never are nor will be ever again lmao.

I have soccer practice now so I'll have to write more later in the evening.

#march 2024 #life

[frontporchghost]

i need to leave im not welcome here she has genuinely sapped every ounce of personhood from my body i cannot be here anymore but i cant afford to escape again

im clearly not fit to love or be loved and i honest to christ think i belong in an institution bc otherwise im a fucking hazard. i clearly cant function around others and its a miracle i havent done myself in because of it.

i should probably call the crisis line bc the only person thats going to give a shit what happens to me at this point is the one who's getting paid to care bc thats the only way stopping me from hurting myself is remotely worth it

why shes stayed with me so long even though im genuinely such a huge piece of shit is a mystery but part of me wishes shed just dump me and go fuck someone else like she wants to and get it over with. i dont deserve any of the grace i received and i have no way of paying anyone back for any of the time or money they wasted on me

im so great im having a great time im so normal