#jack talks

[blluespirit]

there are so many amazing and powerful benders in atla but what i love about zuko is that whether or not he can use his bending in that moment has zero (0) bearing on how much he’s going to absolutely kick your ass. no bending? that’s fine - he’s got swords. no swords or bending? that’s fine - he’s literally just going to beat you up. if you’re REALLY unlucky then you get all three. as a treat.

#like he’s surrounded by these amazing benders. #azula who’s a prodigy #the literal avatar #katara who mastered water bending in like -3 days #(literally iconic of her tbh) #and zuko IS a great firebender (his abilities as a firebender improve as his story progresses) #but it just absolutely cracks me up when i remember zuko will just. not use his bending sometimes #anyway zuko alone fight was special bc he really said i will use all three bc ur special 🤭 #zuko #avatar the last airbender #avatar: the last airbender #atla #jack talks #where’s that post that’s like zuko is a prodigy but his special skill is breaking and entering and he can’t tell anyone about that

[kaibaspuppy]

"kill them with kindness" WRONG. BLUE-EYES ATTACK THEIR LIFE POINTS DIRECTLY. BURST STREAM OF DESTRUCTION!!!!

#jack talks #yugioh #seto kaiba #blue eyes white dragon #yugioh tag #r: seto kaiba #edit: added banner because somebody tagged this as one of those slave owner pirates from the pirate show :-/

[rosiesriiveters]

Crosby & Rosie + Onion Headlines/Tumblr Posts 🫡

#rosie rosenthal #robert rosenthal #rosie mota #crosby mota #harry crosby #masters of the air #ch: rosie #ch: crosby #tv: masters of the air #ur honour... they are everything to me #jack talks

[jackolemon]

I.D: Three pink, blinking, pixelated banners, decorated with a computer icon. They read, respectively:

“gender is a program” “install gender malware” “corrupting gender…”

#jack talks #pink #gif #blinkies #trans #genderqueer #flashing #flashing image #blinkies.cafe #described in caption

[0hwonderboy]

i asked Tim Downie to read Richard Sikens “You are Jeff”. enjoy :)

(i would post my whole cameo but it is eighteen minutes long. LMAO. no thx!)

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #gale dekarios #tim downie #gale of waterdeep #bg3 gale #jack talks #tim downie cameo #also yes it’s watermarked. ppl like stealing my things!

[ticklekinks]

shoutout to chubby/fat lees btw

#coming from a chubby/fat lee #i looooove seeing others </3 makes me so happy #jack talks

[maxim-horvaths-tattoos]

Jon in MAG 177……

#jack talks #the magnus archives #tma #jonathan sims #I will say nothing else #if you know you know #I feel very normal about it

[chaotikjack]

Wait HUH?????

YOOOOO I GOT BOOPED BY @partycoffin!!

Thanks for the boop Clown! :,D

#partycoffin #welcome home #jack talks #april fool's day #boop

[cryptid-jack]

While in the shower this morning I was trying to determine just what it is that makes me love Mass Effect just that little bit more than Dragon Age and decided that it probably comes down to my inherent (though admittedly slight) bias towards sci-fi over fantasy as a genre.

Don't get me wrong, of course, I love Dragon Age and I think it actually does a lot of things better than Mass Effect (integrating it's lore into its story, the races feel more fleshed out, etc), but Mass Effect is the one that makes me tear up a little bit when I fire it up for the first time in awhile and that menu music starts to play. You can hardly put it down to nostalgia, either, as I only played Mass Effect when LE released two years ago (jfc has it been two years already???) and followed up with Dragon Age late last year and into this one.

While fantasy is a fantastic medium for exploring the human condition and many other things─ I feel like science fiction is uniquely positioned to explore our hopes for the future of our species.

In times of turmoil a writer can look forward to the great blank canvas of the future and paint with words their most fervent wish for humanity going forward. We dream of a utopian future where no one wants for anything and we travel freely among the stars, learning from the people we find there, no longer alone in the wide and empty universe. We can also write our greatest fears, our downfall, our last gasping breath as a species that burned too hot too fast only to vanish─ unknown and unmourned in our brevity. All for the sake of warning our contemporaries in the one way we know how.

Something that's always really impacted me is that I will never leave this planet. The vast majority of us never will. Most of us, however, admire the people trying to make it happen─ NASA, rocket scientists, astronauts, and the many, many people that support them and make their work possible. Astronauts reach the moon and the stars beyond not just with rockets but by standing on the shoulders of humanity at large through our massed resources and collective knowledge painstakingly gathered over thousands of generations. Together, all of human history lifts them up and out of the fragile bubble that surrounds our planet and into the vast unknown with the hope that while you and I will never follow in their footsteps, they will carry our memory with them and leave signs of us in places we will never tread. Some small testament to our fragile existence in spite of all the odds conspiring against us having ever existed to begin with.

And I think that's beautiful.

Mass Effect and Dragon Age are both involve a hero uniting many disparate peoples against a larger foe, but Mass Effect is about humanity taking its place in the larger galactic community just a handful of years before insurmountable forces try to wipe out not just humanity, but all life. For all its flaws playing the ME trilogy has a catharsis for me that the DA trilogy doesn't. It scratches a very particular itch that feels like it needs scratching more than ever these days.

TLDR; I think I'm going to go play some Mass Effect today.

#jack talks #mass effect #dragon age #again i freaking LOVE DA #ME will just always hold a special place in my heart

[forestdwellingrat]

everyone’s cool with picking up vocabulary from books when it’s long words like “erudite” or “obfuscate”, but the second you call someone a “hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is” everyone loses their fuckin mind

#jack talks #h2g2 #hitchhikers guide to the galaxy #hitchhikers guide

[blluespirit]

back on my 'zuko is aroace' agenda. if i have to see one more post arguing about shipping i am going to start biting people. he's actually a single dad and never marries thanks bye.

#obv you do you but i for one am TIRED of the discourse #i hate it!!! i hate it so much!!!! #i love being in fandom but sometimes it makes me *starts screaming* #i search up the character and it's just a tirade of angry posts arguing abt who loves XYZ more or they looked at each other so #there is NO DENYING they're madly in love #like you can ship anyone u want but babe... its so fucking deniable!!!! #so anyway aroace zuko truthers where are u #zuko #jack talks

[kaibaspuppy]

that petnames poll made me curious hehe...

pro/shippers begone! i will bite!

#jack talks #polls #selfship #self shipping #yumedanshi #yumejoshi #yumeship #selfship community #seto wouldn't use petnames a lot but i think he would call me darling... And also. well *pointing at username*

[rosiesriiveters]

just some silly little guys [part 1]

#buck cleven #bucky egan #gale cleven #john egan #buck mota #bucky mota #curtis biddick #curt biddick #biddick mota #john brady #brady mota #rosie rosenthal #robert rosenthal #rosie mota #masters of the air #hbo war #love them hehe #ch: buck #ch: bucky #ch: rosie #ch: brady #ch: curt #tv: masters of the air #jack talks

[autistichansolo]

sir if you’re going to call yourself the emperor i’m automatically not going to trust you (like you think saying that’s your name is going to make you trust you is so funny)

#jack talks #like dude you’re full of yourself #also doesn’t help that you constantly was like eat the tadpoles #like dude no #bg3

[0hwonderboy]

me when i FUCKING GET YOU

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #tim downie #bg3 gale #bg3 shitpost #sorry to bff T LOL #jack talks

[ticklekinks]

infatuated lately with the idea of someone hugging me from behind and sliding their hands into my front jean pockets to tickle my thighs and hips there

#jack talks #tickling