#it was so obvious in retrospect

[invierno-92]

Me explaining my grandma and mom that all the health problems since childhood were not “early-onset arthritis,” “carpel tunnel,” “just recurrent hernias,” “diverticulitis” or “crooked teeth” but instead all part of a genetically inherited disease like:

#and thats why i have mobility aids now #eds things #heds #hypermobile ehlers danlos #ehlers danlos #ehler danlos syndrome #spoonie #chronic illness #chronic pain #cant believe the doctors missed it for so long #it was so obvious in retrospect

[sing-you-fools]

Strange word, he thought. It's one of those words that described something that does not make a noise but if it did make a noise would sound just like that. Bliss. It's like the sound of a soft meringue melting gently on a warm plate.

Terry Pratchett, The Truth

I've been looking for a word for words like this (because there are a lot of them) since college (a long time ago) and I'm here to tell you that I've finally got it:

notomatopoeia

please start using it immediately thank you

#in retrospect it's so obvious #onomatopoeia #notomatopoeia #discworld #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #discworld the truth #sing-you-fools #language #linguistics #coining new words for the hell of it #adding more tags because i want this to catch on #words #cool words #poetry

[deancasforcutie]

everyone: *talking about how Cas' confession demands to be addressed in any Supernatural followup* *still phrasing it like it's an obstacle or accident they didn't think through and not the emotional climax the whole season was building to and the whole text supports, like the trap it laid on the network to demand acknowledgment in this way somehow wasn't always the plan*

Bobo "emotionally invested" *queering-the-text-to-defy-and-expose-censorship-constraints* *wrote-the-confession-to-expose-how-it-was-already-queer-and-pull-fandom's-pants-down-on-heteronormative-bias* Berens:

#SAY HIS NAME COWARDS. like acknowledge the obvious answer to why we're here (the queering is coming from inside the house) or draw 25 #HOW many times does he have to kick your asses intellectually in retrospect by your own willful ignorance until you GET IT #HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON FANDOM #sorry for the outburst lol but like the man said: the takes are so bad this morning how long can I endure this sweet torture #supernatural #spn writers #robert berens #spn #dean winchester #castiel #destiel #spn is queer #dean is bi #it's underrated due for a reboot #network fuckery #mine

[eternalgaylord]

listening to a description of Vimes' reasoning behind his strict home-at-6-sharp goal in Thud! has made me realize, a decade late, that his approach to that is derived from his struggle with alcoholism. he can't let himself slip an inch for any reason, because then it's all too easy to go sliding off the wagon

#discworld #sam vimes #so obvious in retrospect #its a huge part of his character

[trayzen-the-infinite]

Hear me out ToTK happens after Wind Waker

Exhibit A: Rito exist during and after Wind Waker the fact the existed at the time of sealing Ganondorf is proof positive already but theirs more

Exhibit B: At the end of Wind Waker Tetra (aka Zelda) sailed off with Link to look for a way to revive the Kingdom of Hyrule and reestablish it. (This is important hold on to that)

Exhibit C: in BOTW theirs a quest where you find Leviathan bones for some researchers. One in particular was said to be a sea dwelling creature that died on land after the sea dried up.

Conclusion: based on this evidence along with what’s openly stated this is what happened. Either through the actions of Tetra and Link or the Goddesses themselves, as they only flooded Hyrule to save it from Ganondorf and he’s now dead, The Great Sea that buried Hyrule dried up and the many races worked to resettle and reestablish themselves in the lost land of Hyrule. During this period The Zonai descended from the Sky to help and would be regarded as Gods for their magical and technological skills. While helping reestablish Hyrule as a Kingdom Rauru would marry the descendant of Tetra, Sonia and together they would be the first Royalty of this new Kingdom and thus Rauru becomes the First King of Hyrule. To further prove Sonia is related to Tetra observe the Family Resemblance:

Both of Zelda’s bloodline, both brown skin and blonde hair

#legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #it’s so obvious in retrospect #tetra #sonia #queen sonia #legend of zelda timeline #wind waker #botw #totk thoughts #totk theory #king rauru #rauru

[will80sbyers]

Ohhh the foreshadowing for the Hivemind in season 2!!

A lot of different things that work as One...

#I'm rewatching #again bc I'm sick #st foreshadowing #vecna #henry creel #stranger things #byler #<- target audience #I honestly feel so dumb that I didn't notice this before like #it's so obvious #now in retrospect

[timemachineyeah]

how did I not know Robert Reich is Sam Reich’s dad

#it’s so obvious in retrospect. they even look alike #timemachine wuz here

[zoobus]

Kind of funny that I got through 5 chapters of S-Class Hunter Doesn't Want to Be a Villainous Princess with vague thoughts of oh the art is really pretty until it whipped out the gloved chin grip by a beautiful princess

Spit my drink out like Beware the Villainess??? Couldn't be any other art team because nobody does beautiful boys getting g-rated manhandled by hot girls like them

#it's so obvious in retrospect with the eyelashes and the hot action girl protag #S-Class Hunter Doesn't Want to Be a Villainous Princess #otome isekai

[piraticoctopus]

You know what while we’re on the bug fables leif spoilers train

That part in the beehive when they’re like “there’s something weird inside leif” my immediate series of thoughts were

1: oh no, parasites

2:

3: technically if we’re talking parasitism done by insects it could be both at once

#edit: HOW DID I FORGET THE ‘LEIF IS ALWAYS HUNGRY’ GAG #THAT WAS A VITAL PART OF THE ‘OH NO’ #it was fairly quickly made clear that i was (fortunately) wrong #kind of? i don’t know what you’d call the situation in-game tbh #much more obvious answer in retrospect #caterpillars are notorious hosts for parasitoids so like #to be a bug would be a terrifying existence #of which they themselves are likely unaware #you just feel like shit and then one day you explode #anyways now I’m just saying shit #edit2: actually i think this would qualify as hyperparasitism #albeit a very unusual case #bug fables #OP #bug fables spoilers #bug fables leif #bf leif #bugs

[wellnoe]

in a lot of ways telepathy and the way its used in superhero comics is kind of inherently fucked but it is also often kind of hot. imo.

#sorry. however!! i feel like it is obvious i held this opinion #w.me #hmm in retrospect this innocuous opinion validated by comics does not require an apology #however the sorry was genuinely felt so i will leave it in

[jocelynmakenna]

I kinda feel a little dumb yk? I'm watching exu calamity again (just to Feel Something in this gap of bells hells content) and I JUST realized that Evandrin and Zerxus are linked to the luxon...

Between "I am a channel of divinity beyond the gods" and the whole Evandrin is made of stars to the maybe Zerxus knows more about the history of the gods....

IM SORRY IT TOOK ME LIKE A YEAR AND A HALF TO PUT IT TOGETHER HAHAHA

#im just a bit dumb sorry #like it feels so obvious in retrospect #god im dumb haha #anyways #critical role #the luxon #exu calamity

[qwartzy-rereads-x]

noooo, kotori

apparently even with all this foreshadowing that was going on (i would say that CLAMP was laying it on pretty heavily), a lot of japanese readers were still shocked when they actually went ahead with this

#clamp #x/1999 #qwartzy rereads x #monou kotori #volume 7 #fractured glass #wings and feathers #it seems so obvious in retrospect but i guess killing off the heroine halfway through was considered daring even in a series like this one

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

There was something very poignant about her choosing to put both Marjorie and Invisible String on the original Eras setlist, both of which were deeper cuts on their respective albums and incredibly personal to her, like bringing two of the most important people in her life on tour with her. Just thinking about how touched she was about people celebrating Marjorie with the lights and how often she speaks about how special it is to her to have her grandmother's voice fill sold out stadiums every night -- evidence that she isn't just picking songs based on crowd favourites or radio hits, but songs that are meaningful to her and fill her cup night after night.

And the fact that Invisible String got axed immediately after The Thing happened is just another sign of how deeply difficult it must have been for her to go through that in real time, and not only that but having to process it in real time with thousands of people's eyes on her. 😵‍💫 Don't get me wrong, I know she's said it's comforting to know people out there understand how she feels and I think she absolutely used that. But I think I'm just trying to say that she chose to put Invisible String on the setlist for the same reason she put Marjorie on there -- it was bringing part of her family along for the ride -- and what should have been a great comfort when initially designing the show must have been so, so painful when things blew up by the time the tour started.

#also they're some of the most overtly personal/diaristic songs on both albums #like yes the 1 works better in the show in retrospect lol #but it just always touched me that she put invisible string on there in the first place #and then made me so sad for her (and made it obvious what was happening in retrospect) when she immediately nope'd out of it #taylor swift #eras tour #writing letters addressed to the fire #i think i've written this post before lol #yes i was listening to evermore and folklore this morning

[todayisafridaynight]

At which point did you realise that the plot of IW is ass? I've seen people complain only about the ending or the halfway point where the teams separate, while I was already actively rolling my eyes like four-five chapters in

i think the moment i fully accepted that IW's story was. Definitely A Story was the moment ebina announced 'bleach japan'. like i think leading up to that point i was thinking to myself 'oh i hope i see X happen' or being like 'i wonder where this is going' and that sort but the proverbial bucket of ice was definitely that moment

#infinite wealth spoilers #snap chats #what reaaaaally hammered it in too if it wasnt obvious already was the execution of the jimas/daigo like that still irks me LMAO #i cant even remember what chapter that happened in i just know when it did i was utterly pissed #i think i started to take things less seriously once bryce entered the picture but thats only because of how distracting his VA was #like much love the JP voice actors who try to speak english and japanese but i just cant act like it's not incredibly distracting #esp when the character is supposed to be white yk what i mean- or at the very least their first language is supposed to be english #typically i can look over that thing if its a one or two time kind of deal but he had to speak in english much longer than others #im just rambling about bryce tho this aint bout him. i mean he could be a part of it the cult was executed really sloppily #it might have been the introduction of bryce actually ... i remember thinking to myself 'oh brother' with the whole messiah thing LMAO #maybe it was when kiryu told us his cancer cam from radiation instead of. smoking 💀 ESPECIALLY not even five chapters in #like straight out the gate you just wanna drop that on us mr I Can Do Everything Myself I Cant Worry Others ok #thats a post for another day tho im EVERYWHERE #POINT IS this is not about Retrospect this is about First Impressions and memory warps over time #but i know for a fact i found the bleach japan thing utterly ridiculous and was squinting at the plot the entire time thereafter #like ive said this a million times at this point but although i love IW for it's gameplay (pardon some nitpicks like lack of shortcuts) #its story really feels so messy and had much to be desired. which is so sad after the wonderful stories rgg has been making since 0.. #BUT OH WELL im still excited to replay it in english. god willing i ever get the time #i still wanna finish lost judgment <- isnt even halfway through the game #and i wanna do a fun stream Maybe with YK2 but ill get into that when i get into that #if youve read this far. thanks LOL id say sorry for the novel but thats what we expect of me at this point

[splatoon-countdown]

i genuinely don’t get why people thought the player character was marina like the skin tones were completely different first and foremost but what were they seeing 😭

No I thought this too! I knew for a fact it wasn't Marina, and didn't understand why it wouldn't be Eight, yknow? It was very clearly a feminine octoling with the base hairstyle which didnt match Marina's at all. While it could've been a placeholder in that scenario I doubt Nintendo would keep such a huge placeholder in a reveal trailer like that.

#ask #anonymous #It was so agonizing not knowing for sure if that was 8 or not... #It retrospect it's obvious it was her but back then? Felt like anything could happen. #not a countdown

[anniyaa]

I kept wondering why Childe is so obsessed with the idea of conquering the world, as in, for what purpose? That is because in his character story about how he got his delusion, it mentions that him becoming a harbinger is merely the first step to that. But it just occurred to me that the question I should have asked instead is, from what cause. Skirk is the one who taught him how to fight and who nurtured his battle lust; if he stayed in the abyss, his goal would have been “conquer the abyss”. But once he got out of the abyss, his goal became, “conquer the world”.

#it’s fairly obvious in retrospect but I kept conflating his goal coming from abyssal addiction #to his goal coming from his loyalty to the tsaritsa #which we don’t know why he wants it so badly #the official Genshin fanbook from PASH asks what is it that he has seen in the tsaritsa’s promised world #which is a very good question #childe #ajax #tartaglia #childe brainrot