#cebo talks

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[image description: a korean war era telegram that has been edited to read: "dear harry, who's responsible? affectionately, a dissatisfied customer" /end ID]

this episode has left lasting damage

#mash #m*a*s*h #mash 4077 #dr. pierce and mr. hyde #0205 #cebo talks #about mash

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Oikawa x Reader Imagine

Aclaration: it is implied that you already know that you like each other at some level. Reader is left in charge of her art's club exposition and comes up with an ingenious idea to attract the public.

Imagine you are on the cultural festival at your school and you are left in charge of the art's club exposition and your main goal is to obtain as many visitor and as many new applications as you can. You decide to invite your friend Oikawa and use him as propaganda and cebo to attract as many girls as possible. Oikawa was a bit offended that you would use him like that but he would do anything to spend more time with you and so he convinces Iwaizumi to go with him (that would make it more bearable)

The poor man didn't want anything to do with it but at the end of the day he found it hilarious how all the girls were fawning over him and how you would just pop into the group of fangirls and start giving them all the propaganda of the club "Wouldn't you like to have handsome boys like him as muses? Here in the art club we sometimes bring our own models!" "Wouldn't you girls want to learn all about art and sculpture to attract the attention of your crush? Creative girls have good reputation you know" and "What better way to learn more about yourselves and be more cultural than to be in an art club? ✨" It was somewhat of a cheap trick but you made s bet that you would attract more public than the club's president so sacrifices had to be made.

Iwaizumi was the one that ended up spending more time with you during your turn, mainly making fun of Oikawa and at how he tried at all cost to strike your attention over the waves of fangirls. Oikawa was not amused.

I can just imagine Oikawa throwing terrible pick up lines at the fangirls just for the sake of your club. The more applications the better. Like, "Hey, angels, wanna be my muse?" (Finger guns) "all this works of art and none of them shine as much as your eyes" and "Girl, you are stealing the attention of all these sculptures! Which exposition did you escape from?"

The reader and Iwaizumi cracking up in the background at how cringe that was.

Once you've managed over 20 applications, you treat both of them to a stand of food as a thank you. Maybe an ice-cream or some churros, I don't know what they usually sell. Oikawa, although exhausted, was almost jumping at the notice that you finished your turn and now you could accompany him the rest of the day. When you give him his ice-cream he can't help but blush a little at your kindness.

Iwaizumi, being the perfect wingman, leaves with the excuse of going to say hi to Kageyama. Oikawa doesn't complain and instead takes on the opportunity to finally talk to you. When you stop to watch the band of some second-year class, you kiss him on the cheek and say that you really do appreciate his help with the club and that in exchange of spending all day at the club room, you will take him on a date to whatever place he wants to go.

Oikawa just turns red and starts stuttering at how smooth your invitation was (completely missing how you were also red and shaking of nervousness) and, once he reacts, starts whining at how he was the one that wanted to ask you out! You just beat him to it. He will make sure to plan the best date of your life, you'll see.

Maybe your propaganda-idea wasn't so bad after all.

#oikawa x reader #oikawa tooru #haikyuu imagines #haikyuu x reader #aoba johsai #haikyuu

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more traditional social medias are so jarring, it was announced recently on f*cebo*k that it had been some multiple of 365 days since i was ever so gracefully removed from the inside of my mother. now I’m tanking people that I’ve never even met before, and no one seems to get that a response is even more disingenuous than a lack of reply “they’re from the generation where you should reply” i literally do not know this woman, what happened to “dont talk to strangers” can we go back to “dont talk to strangers”?

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You've talked a lot about your ghouls, but do you have any hcs about the human clergy members?

Not so much, I'm afraid. I'm proud to say one of my fics on Ao3 are the only ones that use the tag for Zbigniew Beliak's character in the Ghost-verse (Archbishop Necropolitus Cracoviensis). I made up some stuff about him in order to use him as a character, derived from, like, one article that says anything about him at all. (Sorry for the f*cebo*k link)

So the Archbishop is a human. Some say he's always been an Archbishop. How old is he, anyway?- he was and still is great friends with Papa III. Their friendship started long before there was a Papa III.

The Archbishop works, and possibly lives, in a narrow 'apartment' (it's a glorified closet, really) in the church. The walls are lined with shelves which are full of... things. Petrified things. Pieces of things. Gels and jellies and salves and tinctures and ashes and memories and blood and dirt and eyes and bugs. This space also houses some of the older relics of the church, like Papa III's thurible.

Over his Archbishop attire, he wears a long dark coat lined with pockets which contain small jars (he is always ready to harvest more samples for his collection), pens, and sketchbooks.

He has a pet poodle, long dead, perfectly preserved and stuffed, and he frequently carries it in his arm and pets it like a spy movie villain with a cat. The poodle seems to have some sort of armature inside it; it has been seen in different poses. Wait- is it dead?

He wears large, bizarre glasses that give him sort of a mechanical spider vibe. The glasses have a series of small arms with different lenses on either side of the main lenses, which can be flipped in front of the main lenses to magnify his vision. Invaluable for his art!

He speaks with a disquieting, hoarse voice. It doesn't suit his age. Or does it? How old is he, anyway?

... And like I desperately want to write more about Imperator and the nuns she oversees but I cannot get a feel for her. She's elusive and mysterious and I feel... unworthy of just going "well fuck it here's what I think" at her like I've done with the other members of the church.

#ghost bc #in my headcanon Copia was abandoned and I have an idea of how his bio mother is but that's neither here nor there

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the dehumanisation themes in general are churning in my head. obv there are some problems especially with the analogy to addiction, but in the larger societal context i find it very interesting. poverty and lack of social welfare forces you to dehumanise yourself. war dehumanises you. this goes double if you include big daddies and little sisters. war dehumanises those who fight it and it dehumanises the next generation who will only ever know to be instrumentalised in a larger scheme.

the way you are told from the beginning that the excessive use of plasmids is what turns people into splicers, and how you go on to massacre them as the standard enemy throughout the entire game. hammering home the point that you're not supposed to see them as people anymore. and at the same time you take plasmid after plasmid yourself because there simply is no other way to make it through rapture. when you lose control over them in the later chapters, how do you not think about how your are on your best way to become one of them? when you turn yourself into a big daddy, a process that is then and there described as an irreversible loss of all personhood, how do you not wonder if you'll ever be able to leave it behind even if the fight is won?

i think the implications are very clear and intentional by the end and i was disappointed that it wasn't brought up or adressed. i mean, just through those heavy implications i think it has its presence in the end. jack and the little sisters are the next generation, forever changed and (metaphorically) disfigured by someone else's war, decide to reach out to one another, to show compassion for each others despite everything that's been modelled for them. i just wish the dehumanisation jack is for forced through during the events of the game itself was addressed more. but then again, bioshock's ending being weak is far from being a groundbreaking take.

#well i hop this all makes sense it's almost 6am and i haven't slept #bioshock #cebo talks #about bshock

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so the basic conflict structure in mash is hawkeye and trapper defying military rules on the basis of actually trying to help people, and frank and margaret in turn trying to uphold military rules - but! these two are not doing it for the the same reasons.

frank is pro-military bc he buys into mccarthyism / american pro-war propaganda. but margaret does it bc she believes that order and structure are good. and also the war is very serious to her, and hawkeye and trapper not taking military rules seriously translates to her as not taking the war seriously.

but whenever there are people who need help it's very clear hawkeye and trapper do take it seriously, they just don't extend that courtesy to any other aspect of their stay. margaret wants to enforce the rules bc she believes they are in place to help to help people. that adhering to structure and discipline is what will help people most.

this is why when it comes down to it, margaret is actually more on hawkeye and trapper's side, all it really takes for her is a series of events that force her to realise and confront that the military does not actually have the good of the people as it's objective.

in conclusion: i can fix her

#mash #mash lb #0214 #cebo talks #at length #about mash

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[image description: a screenshot from season 2 episode 6 of bbc's "Ghosts" showing the Captain, Fanny, Kitty, Julian, Thomas, Alison and Mary huddled in front of the window as they watch the second bride arrive. /end ID]

this shot. this damn shot. i've been raving about the composition since i first saw it and i know i've said this all before. i know it's my favourite shot. i know it does an amazing job at showing that this moment is most significant to the captain by centering him even as he doesn't say anything. i know i always feel the special tension of this moment, soaking up what everyone else has to say about this, what everyone elso might have to say about YOU. i know it's an exceptional example of how to tell a silent queer story focussing on interal conflicts rather then the external. i know fanny and alison arguing about the morality of a same-sex marriage are placed each at one of the captain shoulders as if they are his own internal argument of old formality he clings to for comfort against new ideas he's trying to grapple with. i know, i know, i know. and STILL! after 2 years! i watch this scene and it still hits me like a brick!!!

#AARRRRRGHHGH #the cinnamon . ... th fucking. cinnamon topography *lights myself on fire* #bbc ghosts #cebo talks #at length #about ghosts

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i really hope jack isn't the protagonist in that bioshock movie they're making. the way we never get to see his face, his reaction or hear him speak invites the player's projection and the faulty assumption that he isn't really a distinct character. this will never work as well in a movie and it goes so well with the reveal that he was never able to make his own decision and that his memories are constructed and controlled by someone else. he is the ultimate off-screen character, eternally defined by what others push onto him. it's important to me that we never actually get to know him bc it's such a poignant tragedy!!

#bioshock #jack wynand #cebo talks #about bshock

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can anyone recommend me (video-) essays on bioshock btw? it's exactly in that spot of viedo game popularity where there is so much talk about its themes and story but most of it is shallow or just a really stupid take. there must be gems of bioshock discussion somewhere, i just need to finde them!

#looking mainly for stuff about the original game #bioshock #cebo talks #about bshock

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i cannot stop thinking about the "no gods. no kings. only men" slogan when you enter rapture. you go down there and you see 2 very powerful people fighting over control of the city, places named after greek mythology, underground cults, splicers and plasmids literally everywhere. it's nothing but gods and kings and noone can afford to keep their humanity

#dude you planned your atheist utopia for ages and you named every part of it after a greek god ...... lmao #cebo talks #about bshock #bioshock

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what i like about dr tenenbaum is that i don't think she ever truly has a change of heart. her change is a conscious decision. she thinks someone needs to look out for these children, but she doesn't think she's the right person to do it and she certainly doesn't want to. like i genuinely think she just dislikes children. but she sees that noone else is doing it so it has to be her. and she never finds passion or joy in caring for them, she does it purely because she believes it is the right thing to do and that is what compels me about her.

#disclaimer that i only just started bs2. this analysis is based on the original game idk if/how they change her character in the sequels #bioshock #brigid tenenbaum #cebo talks #about bshock

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[image description: screenshot of a tik tok showing jhariah clare in red/pink light looking at the camera with serious expression. above him a text reads: "Listen I'm loving the trend of pitching up songs but what we not gonna start doing is calling these "(SPED UP VERSION)" that is NIGHTCORE idc" /end ID]

#king shit #jhariah sir you are so correct<3 #btw i do NOT have tik tok he posted it to instagram .... not so much better actually tho #musicposting #cebo talks

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diversity win! this low-empathy autistic character is not an unfeeling serial kill- no wait, hold on .... this low-empathy autistic character is not an unfeeling serial killer anymore! :)

#ok but fr the point is that she didn't suddenly learn empathy when or after she changed and that is genuinely great. #brigid tenenbaum #bioshock #cebo talks #about bshock

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i know it's obvious but im already such a radargirl (gn), but im too scared to go into the tags bc of spoilers, so can anyone send some spare radar pics my way? 👉👈

#cebo talks #mash #m*a*s*h #im just finishing s1

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uggghhh today is last day before i leave town for 4 months and i really want to see him one last time but he said i shouldnt stress myself so much bc i would have to go across town and everything ... dude i WANT to stress myself if i can see you again !!!! but i dont know how insistant to be about it bc idk if he was just politely cancelling ... which would be fine. but if he wasnt i want to go. so idk what to say.

#i'll miss him :( #cebo talks

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i have a special talent for counting the same thing twice and getting vastly different results

#cebo talks