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#just thinking out loud
hannahmanderr · 9 months
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just sitting here thinking about how Livin' Large could've been so much cooler
like the GIW buying up the FentonWorks isn't a bad premise itself, especially if they're trying to get to the GZ (we don't talk about the novelty rocket) but why make them struggle bc FentonWorks is run-down when it's prime real estate to get into some wicked cool stuff about haunting?
you have scenes like this where they're doing something mundane like trying to plug in an extension cord to power up their Doomsday device
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and then 2 seconds later when he goes to plug it in he gets brutally electrocuted
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it's written off as "FentonWorks is a run-down hunk of junk" but what if the lab/portal reacted as a way to defend itself? trying to ward off unfriendlies?
after all, what the GIW are essentially doing is screwing around with Danny's grave.
just imagine a Livin' Large where that scene happens and all of a sudden it cuts to Danny kind of feeling a tug of some sort, like he just used some energy without even realizing it. sure, he would brush it off the first time or two, but the GIW wouldn't stop. as it keeps happening and as he subconsciously continues to defend his grave without him knowing, he would definitely start to get suspicious. maybe he keeps getting distracted by his new expensive toys, but it wouldn't let up and it would just make him feel more and more unsettled. these guys are basically messing with what should be the most sensitive place to him, the place where he died.
but maybe he doesn't want to believe it, at least until Sam and Tucker try to tell him what's up, and at that point, things click. those two might not understand - they're only human after all, they don't understand what it's like to live right above your own grave - but Danny would, and he would be livid.
and so now i'm imagining Danny showing up at FentonWorks as Phantom absolutely ready to defend his haunt and his grave at any cost. imagine what sorts of things he could make the lab do then.
and imagine what would happen to the GIW.
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elvhenfaer · 6 months
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Just an Astarion thought…
If you allow Astarion to complete the ritual and become the Vampire Ascendant, his next romance scene is to turn you into his first spawn. If you refuse and tell him you don’t want that, he won’t continue a romantic relationship with you.
I think he’s still afraid. I think he doesn’t truly believe he is free if you’re free.
After all, the only thing that allowed him to kill Cazador was you. When he rushes Cazador in that dungeon, he winds up strung up with all of the other spawn, begging “Stop him! Get me out of here!”.
He’d have died beneath that palace without you there to save him. And he is all too aware of that. If he completes the ritual and becomes all powerful, he still doesn’t feel all powerful because he’s staring into the face of someone who could end it all for him. He can’t be all powerful until that person is under his control, as he was under Cazador’s for so long.
I imagine that for those 200 years of ‘pure shit’, Astarion couldn’t imagine anyone who would even be capable of actually killing Cazador. And if he did imagine someone who could, he probably imagined them as an even worse monster, terrible and terrifying.
Now he is in Cazador’s place and he looks upon you with fear, because you were the one who did it, and if he doesn’t leash you, you will remain a threat forever. He’s free, but it doesn’t provide him with the sense of security he thought it would. Astarion thought Cazador was untouchable and he learned that he wasn’t, which can only logically mean that even as Ascendant, he isn’t either.
So what would provide him with that actual sense of safety? What would fulfill his true desire to ‘never have to fear anyone again’?
Answer: making sure you could never betray him. And as a bonus, your power is at his side and taking his orders forever. That is a win/win. You are his weapon and his shield and you can never be used against him.
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lizardlicks · 3 months
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reading the tags and comments on that last reblog (zuko has sozin's eyes) got me thinking about zuko realizing how much more he looks like ozai every year and every year growing a fucked up, resentful, gratefulness that ozai burned half of it off and how messed up would that be..
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chwheeler · 8 months
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We need to talk about Aziraphale's face journey during the credits of s2e6, his ascent to heaven in the elevator.
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He starts nervous and goes through a series of expressions, looking almost manic. It's not a straight shot from A to B either, it's almost oscillating until it reaches the smile at the conclusion. He looks different. He doesn't look like him. Something is clearly happening to him, something outside just the act of traveling to heaven. I think he's becoming an archangel in that elevator.
Crowley tells Aziraphale during the Job story that the angel he once was and the demon he is now are not the same person. Aziraphale brushes him off, asserting that simply isn't true. What if Crowley is right, but it also goes the other way too. What if this is why all the archangels are such dicks to everyone, because they aren't the same? Maybe that's why Gabriel falling in love changed his personality so much. Him stepping away from his post (even before it was official) to consort with Beelzebub made him change.
And why Aziraphale was wrong to accept the post isn't because he had misguided ideals but because it is impossible. The mere act of becoming an archangel is going to make him no longer Aziraphale as we know him. And I don't mean metaphorically, I mean literally.
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disfrutalakia · 5 months
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Thinking about the happy pills arc in general now, how it was amazing and chilling to watch live.
And to this day I wonder how the fuck did cc!Forever and his team came up with it so fast? Like there were entire cutscenes (not sure if it's the best name for what was shown in the end of streams but) ready and all!!! Like how?
And the fact that it was one of the first moments cc!Forever really started acting is amazing to me. You can see the way he views rp differently now and I honestly love that, it gave us an amazing character
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nightowl374art · 8 months
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you know what would just wreck me
if there was a scene in BTSV in which Gwen “died” and Miles had to start her heart with his electric powers
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xstarkillerx · 7 months
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Literally tipsy right now but I need to publicly release the version of Brian o'conner in my head
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like UGHHHH if you knew, if you only knew. He's so disgusting, filthy, perverted, does shit to get off that makes him ashamed to look in the mirror. Because isn't that what he was anyway? A man with a fluid sense of morality who can easily be swayed to the "other side" if he's having enough fun. A man who, time and time again, justifies ruining his life for the sake of another person? Sure it was Dom in the movies, but what if it was you?
What if you stroked the reckless bone in his body? The one that's dying to have you squirming in his lap while he hits the fucking redline one-handed, putting literal fistfuls of lives at risk, because you wanted his fingers in your pussy while the turbo fluttered. The one that lets his friend fuck you in the backseat while his hands stroke his steering wheel with slow, itching fingers, cock hard in his jeans because he's always had a thing for cars and every time Rome's touch makes you whine you sound exactly how he pictured she would: the Skyline, his girl, his prize car he built from the ground up. Moan again, let Roman bottom out one more time even if it hurts because you almost got it, it's just like he imagined her.
This isn't even the fucking half of it, I haven't even said what I wanna say. I just want Brian to wake up hating himself and yet he harder than he's ever been because you're there sleeping next to him and he knows the moment you wake up you're gonna let him do something that spikes his adrenaline.
Or something like that idk I'm gonna go take another shot 😁
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mxtxfanatic · 11 months
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Alright mxtx fandoms, let’s discuss class distinctions. I see a lot of people who discuss the theme of classism in mxtx works by collapsing all class groups into two categories: the ultra rich upper class who make all the rules and the poverty-stricken lower class who are oppressed by them. However, this is rarely the case in her books. The prime examples I can think of are in tgcf and mdzs.
In mdzs, a lot of people claim that Wei Wuxian and Jin Guangyao come from “similar backgrounds,” but this is most definitely not the case. Yes, Jin Guangyao went unclaimed by his father until later into his adulthood after his mother’s death, but Meng Yao did not grow up poor. Meng Shi was a famed courtesan with high-profile clients before she had her son, and having Meng Yao was a plan for her to be made into a mistress or second wife (which ultimately failed). Sisi was almost turned into a second wife, which is what caused her to be attacked and ruined her looks. Sex workers operated in a weird social space in ancient history where they existed as an industry, but class distinctions between different kinds of sex work still existed/exists and Meng Shi was definitely not on the low end of the scale. Even if Jin Guangyao had never been acknowledged by his father, he still found an honest job as a bookkeeper before meeting Lan Xichen. Meanwhile, Wei Wuxian was a street orphan with no family, money, status, who barely remembered his name, and definitely no benefit of an education due to how young he was orphaned, who was eventually taken in as the companion servant to a local lord-equivalent’s son. Neither of these characters started off as gentry, but they were not of the same class growing up.
In tgcf, Mu Qing is touted as a “poor”/working-class character by a large portion of the fandom, but… there’s no real evidence that he is? I mean, I have no doubt that, given the circumstances of his father’s death and his mother’s eventual disability, he was in poverty at some point, and this seems to be corroborated within the narrative by the fact that he is well-known and loved by the street orphans in the city. However, you cannot tell me that the personal servant to the crown (and only) prince to an entire kingdom is surviving off poverty wages. You’d be better-served making an argument to me about Anne Boleyn being an accurate historical representation of English serfs. Hong Hong’er, actual child living in poverty, is notably set apart from Mu Qing: from his fraying, patched clothes to his dirty hands to Mu Qing’s unwillingness to touch him… Mu Qing is set apart from the upper crust because 1) he is not of nobility but, more importantly, 2) his father was a criminal publicly executed for treason. And #2 is particularly damning for Mu Qing’s status amongst the nobility because Feng Xin, also not from a noble family, is (conditionally) accepted amongst the same elite snobs in a way Mu Qing is not (which makes sense since why would a noble like the son of a man who may have conspired against their rule?). Interesting to note, though, that the only time Mu Qing is unquestionably included in the array of the elite is when Hong Hong’er is being ostracized by the same group (minus Xie Lian). So while Hua Cheng and Mu Qing both had childhoods outside the nobility, Mu Qing was not anywhere near the level of poverty Hua Cheng had to live through.
I feel like svsss escapes this sort of broad-stroke application of class status to characters because most characters really do either fall into one of the two groups or we are not given background information on them at all. We know that Shen Jiu and Yue Qingyuan were child slaves, with the former being bought by a cruel master and the latter being able to escape and join a sect. We know that Luo Binghe, while not a child slave, was a child servant working with his adoptive mother under cruel masters who were directly the cause of his mother’s death. Slight distinction, but functionally not any different in their effects and outcomes. Shen Yuan is said to come from a wealthy family in his world, and Liu Qingge and Liu Mingyan do, as well. All the major demon characters are nobility. The only character we see who does not fit into this distinct divide is Shang Qinghua, but his background only becomes fleshed-out in the extras. Not to say that classism isn’t also a theme, but it’s function is used differently here than in the other two novels (especially since in svsss, we are working with parallels feeding into cycles of abuse and how to break said cycles rather than recreating them into infinity).
So with all this said, I think it may actually help discussions of the classism theme within these different mxtx fandoms to acknowledge and take into account the nuances within the class positions that these characters occupy. Why is it that the functionally middle-class characters, after gaining a crumb of acceptance from the elites, tend to turn against those lower on the rung? How do characters of the same background and class status interact with others of differing status, and what makes their reactions different from each other despite being raised under similar conditions? What is mxtx trying to say about class as a social or even moral divider by adding all these class nuances or (with svsss) lack thereof into her various narratives?
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noose-lion · 9 months
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I'm about 85% sure that Fyodor was faking the breakdown.
My evidence; Asagiri said our beloved Russian was based off the Joker from the Dark Knight. That Joker in particular pulls similar tricks and lies to mess with people and throw them off guard. He makes up tragic backstories and flips between 'personalities', so it wouldn't be odd for Fyodor to do something similar.
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gammija · 1 year
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@a-mag-a-day Today I'm thinking about Martin, specifically, how quote-unquote human he really still is
he's clearly fallen on the side of 'Watcher' in the Eyepocalypse, not surprising perhaps, cause he already was able to turn invisible or something like it in s4 from the Lonely, and had to be 'both Lonely and Watching' enough for Peter's plan to at least work in theory. and while not as deep in it as Jon, he's still worked for the Eye for 10 years iirc, and he's marked by it to the point that it's a part of his domain
Martin in canon appears occasionally insensitive to Jon's new impulses, acting as the straight man to his avatar-ness. But we know that Martin's really good at acting like how he thinks things ought to be, while ignoring how he knows them to be deep down. (examples: him being the last one to accept Sasha is gone, at first instance assuming Jon must've been brainwashed in 142 Scrutiny, "I'm knackered!' -'Are you?' -'... ok, well, no, but i feel like i should be")
so i wonder, how much of his reactions are because Jon's words are genuinely alien to him, and how much is just posturing, exaggerating how he feels like he should react, to ignore when Jon's experiences feel relatable, or that niggling idea that, if everyone in this world is either victim or watcher, and Martin feels remarkably good, all things considered... well.
Or,
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nebuvoid · 5 months
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I know everyone's going nuts over how gorgeous Scala is, and it is, but personally I am looking at this.
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The RG pipes? I'm seeing. Honestly this looks like the room doors in Monsters Inc. I mean might just be a coliseum or a panopticon lol, but I also wouldn't be surprised if the pit leads to a thing like this, a sort of amalgamation of the astral plane and the piping splits it into worlds you can visit.
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elliespuns · 4 months
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Is it just me, or was the change of looks between 16- and 17-year-old Ellie a bit rushed? One minute she's 16 and she looks like a 16-year-old girl would look like, and then the next minute she's 17, which is not that big of a time leap (honestly, it's so quick you normally don't notice any changes in looks), and she already appears a lot older than that—even her attitude drastically changes in this short time. I would understand if this was her 18-year-old look, but something about this never played well with me. She definitely seems older than 17 when I consider that she's 16 in the first picture.
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When we get to see her as a 15-year-old in the prologue, it is so close to her 16-year-old look, while her 17-year-old look is just too rushed and is rather closer to her 19-year-old look.
Don't get me wrong, 17-year-old Ellie is cute, and I love this part of the game. It just doesn't make sense for a girl to grow up so fast within a few months, allowing us to notice so many things being different appearance wise (I mean, where the hell did Ellie have the time to grow the boobs, huh?). *laughs nervously*
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hetalia-club · 6 months
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I’m so curious to know Himas thought process in the characters human ages. Like what determines when they stop aging? Is it like twilight hybrid rules where the age until they reach sexual maturity and then just stop? And if so why did Latvia cap off at 15? He’s older than Germany and america put together. Why is he 15 but they are 19 and 20? And if it’s like political power or something that determines their aging then why as america stayed 19 and not aged up closer to Englands age?
I’m just curious if he has an actual reason or if he just picked random ages and didn’t put any thought into the reasonings of it.
Like italy was a baby FOREVER longer than he’s been an adult. Why was that? Where Germany has basically no baby stage at all and he was just older right away.
When really Romano and Italy should have been full grown because the Roman Empire was more of a powerhouse than Prussia was.
Idk I think about it sometimes and make up all these sanarios in my ahead wondering if there is a reason for it all. I have tried to come up with my own theories but they always end up not making sense the more I think about them.
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chwheeler · 11 months
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Ok, ruminated over the Michelle thing and after reading a few opinions I think I've figured it out. Maybe. Possibly. And it has everything to do with Trent becoming a Diamond Dog. Hear me out:
What confused me started in the pub where we see Ted and Michelle have an easy, fun back and forth to the discomfort of Dr Jacob. It reads flirty, clearly Ted and Michelle still click, at least in that area. Then we see Ted spiral about the possible engagement, thankfully to be snapped out of it by Rebecca, that he needs to focus on Henry. And Ted does, joins his son for a singalong and everything is hunky dory. Cool, that should be the end of that story, right? Logically?
But it's not. We see Michelle seem less than enthusiastic about the Paris trip and Ted laser focus on the lack of engagement ring. Then Michelle (and Henry) seem to rebuff Dr Jacob as Ted spies on them, perplexed. He was supposed to be over this, right? What's the deal?
So far Ted's divorce has been rocky. It's not the shit-show that is Rebecca's divorce. It's not as bitter as Sassy's divorce. Ted clearly still wants to be a part of Michelle's life, he says as much in the conversation where he admits he's mad about the Dr Jacob thing. Which Michelle reacts positively to! But both of his divorced friends are happier without their former spouses. Who can Ted turn to for advice?
Enter newly minted Diamond Dog Trent Crimm. (Woof) When Trent came out to Colin, we the audience learned 2 things about his divorce: he's "closer than ever" with his ex and their daughter has "never been happier". Trent shows it is possible to be on good terms in a divorce. Heck, to even be Friends. Because that's what Ted and Michelle clearly should be.
They still get along, they enjoy each other's company and talking. They tried so hard to make it work. They need to realize that it is possible to love each other (platonic) without loving each other (romantic). Something Dr Jacob clearly wasn't able to help them with.
So what does this mean for Ted and Michelle? I don't know. I don't think they are supposed to be endgame or anything like that. But Michelle didn't seem thrilled with Dr Jacob at the end of the ep and Henry obviously misses his dad. And that means something to the story. Whether that's Ted going back to Kansas or Michelle and Henry moving to London. This family needs to be reunited, for all of them.
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curiousity-cell · 8 months
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just had a thought regarding gwyn & the lightsinger theory & az’s regifting of the necklace
disclaimer: i do not believe gwyn is evil if she’s confirmed as a lightsinger i don’t think she even realises she has this effect on people & it might not even be a lightsinger it could very well be a nymph thing so. don’t be a dick basically
so i was basically just thinking about the bonus chapter and why azriel would regift elain’s very targeted gift (shape of a rose necklace? that’s just pure elain Why is he giving that to another woman who has no connections to roses or flowers at all. why do men. anyway). i think this sentence is really really important because while yes maybe her powers are mainly channeled more powerfully when she sings, SJM would not have put “silent music” & about his shadows here -
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- if it was not important. so when he leaves the training area and discovers elain’s given her necklace back (because. obviously. she’s just been rejected by someone she thought liked her back. idk why some people think this is confusing), look at what is written:
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“beautiful singing” follows him. he had “every intention” of giving the necklace back to the palace of thread and jewels but didn’t. why? i believe it’s because gwyn’s accidental lightsinging / nymph effect kept gwyn on his mind and therefore she was who he was thinking about all day. i think that’s also why the “secret thing of lovely beauty” is repeated for gwyn. now i’m not gonna say i know what a lightsingers effect has on a person but looking at the effect gwyn’s singing has on /nesta/ (read below)
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i think it’s safe to say that it has a luring effect & brings out positive emotions (again: we know lightsingers are stated to be evil in the siren like way but i don’t believe gwyn is that type of person so. i’m led to believe she doesn’t realise she has this effect)
but what positive emotions do we know that azriel has had recently? liking elain. possibly loving elain. so yeah i think that gwyn’s luring powers rubbed off on azriel and that’s why he regifted the necklace to gwyn, because she was on his mind. literally. because of effect she has on people.
i feel like this also explains why it feels so jarring for him to hop from one woman to the other in a night and then go back to being in a foul mood literally the next morning after the solstice. maybe he doesn’t remember giving the necklace away? maybe because gwyn doesn’t wear the necklace he doesn’t know where it went? idk but yeah. this is my theory.
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vashito · 10 months
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Prey was such a refreshing movie, to get a modern installment in a sci fi monster movie franchise that was actually good, what a gift. these things tend to just get worse and worse as they go. it was just simple and to the point! told a nice story that wasn't overloaded with lore or alien world building like fuck we don't need to know the origin of the species. just human vs monster, go! and buying into Naru's struggles to really root for her to prove herself. i love that movie so much.
I hope the new Alien movie does what Prey did, go back to the basics of why the first movies worked so well
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