#like the empire was like

[vyr2oso]

Why why why do we still not know when crosshairs chip got removed

I'm so sure it's after s1 ep8/9

But I like the idea the empire told crosshair it was removed but in reality it's still in his head but it broke after the injury. And that it's unable to be removed properly because of the injury. Like if they tried to remove it it would kill him

So much angst potential there

#like the empire was like #well shit we cant enhance his chip anymore what should we do #oh he just got a massive head injury that was semi caused by his former squad #lets convince him that his brothers left him for dead and that he should remain loyal to the empire #well tell him we even removed his chip so that hell want to trust us more #who cares if chip still being in his unproperly treated wound will probably give him massive headaches lol #bad batch #crosshair #crosshair bad batch #the bad batch crosshair #the bad batch #tbb speculation

[oflights]

the main problem with this time of year is the irresistible urge to get fully into bed at like 5:34 pm and outside is like yesss, yesss do it, it's what you deserve yesss. like is it depression or is it just november

#it's november obvs #december is not like this!! #today after work i shut the macbook i got into bed and i played that fruit tetris game #while listening to something called 'lofi roman empire' #for 1.5 hours #zero wrinkles in the brain after that completely smooth #and then somehow i cooked dinner

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[tacosransi]

one cannot resist moth wife

#is goji a cat? a dog? who knows #i just like drawing his tail wagging whenever he sees mothra #i cant think of a dog that acts like a cat #chihuahuas maybe… #my art #digitalart #kaiju #monsterverse #godzilla #mothra #mothzilla #mosugoji #godzilla x kong: the new empire #the more i draw mothra the longer her antennas get

[suiheisen]

quick question: when will she ravish me.

also... the music. the little wet noises... so good...

#this reveal was so sexy. blood dripping. hands padding slowly unf. want her to hold me in a claw like king kong on the empire state building #i do think they could have gone harder with the Monstrousness but. still very delicious to me. #and when That Scene drops next week (???) i will be completely normal. so normal. #blood tw #falin touden #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #spoilers #dungeon meshi spoilers #anime #manga

[maculategiraffe]

man if I was a russian mob boss and my worthless layabout son killed baba yaga's dog I'd just fucking give him up. like immediately. like call john wick's secret basement landline and be like "iosef's at the club. all his goons and bodyguards have been instructed to stand down. there's a new puppy on your front porch. do you want an edible arrangement or anything"

#it's not like little theon is an asset to your empire #just move on with your life #have more sons. make better parenting choices #psir #john wick

[ruubesz-draws]

He's a little confused, but he got the spirit!

(He's trying his best, leave him alone!)

#godzilla #godzilla x kong: the new empire #godzilla minus one #shin godzilla #godzilla ultima #godzilla earth #math problems #ugh I feel you Shin #don't @ him ya'll #he's trying his best #and technically he's not entirely incorrect #like ehat Earth said: #i guess #thos other Gojis being bros #tryna help Shin lol #-1 is amused lmao #Earth just accepts it lol #do not repost #my art #also... Anguirus was here!

[mischieviem]

Nonono youwuhyoo-

#good omens #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #ineffable partners #ineffable spouses #anthony j crowley #aziracrow #aziraphale x crowley #aziraphale #i feel like Crowley's greece look gets so much shit #but i think its so pretty #the intricate hair #the low neckline #its my roman empire #do not repost #mischieviem #my art

[1mm4d13]

Mothra better survive this movie for once

#SHE LIVED MY BBY GIRL LIVED FOR ONCE #godzilla #gojira #mothra #mosura #best girl #kaiju #monsterverse #gxk #godzilla x kong: the new empire #they should eep #I like the 2014 dorsals for MV Goji better #bite me #I sometimes like to think that everything the fandom has done with Godzilla has helped him and japan really heal from their shared tragedies

[wackywumpum]

Alright but what if Godzilla slithered

#LISTEN #Godzilla vs Kong already had our boy be pretty nimble #just sayinggggg #Godzills slithering would be cool alright #ive had this idea stuck in my head for YEARS because i saw some Gmod youtube video where they just kinda dragged a Godzilla ragdoll around #godzilla #kaiju #godzilla x kong #godzilla x kong: the new empire #theres like two shots in the trailer that have some pretty iffy CGI #but im really hoping those get ironed out because the rest of it looks pretty good

[kagoutiss]

pelican town, ‘72

#stardew valley #stardew valley spoilers #sdv #sdv spoilers #grandpa #mister qi #mr. qi #idk how dates work in stardew universe im just bullshittin #i love qi’s huge fucking eyebrows you dont notice them at first but theyre there #(gives our collective grandpa a ponytail) i think he had one. whatever #’why isnt mister qi blue’ my hc is he is blue from long-term iridium supplementation #and was originally just a regular person #but also it’s nice to see ur fav be like a normal human color #if u read tag essays tho consider this: #qi discovers secret to immortality (consuming iridium in a specific manner) #wants to share discovery with his farmer (player’s grandpa) and in that way. they will have all the time in the world to build #a perfect farming/business empire whose legacy will last forever and ever and theyll be 2gether forever #but it turns out. like a lot of normal people would. his farmer does not want to live forever #and obv he doesn’t #in an attempt to try not to ever lose the thing that means more to him than anything else in the world. qi inadvertantly ensures he will #because his farmer is dead. and he’s going to live forever #but. it’s kind of ok. because he has infinite money and was able to figure out how to talk to his dead bf #and now YOU help them fulfill their joint goal of making the farm’s legacy last forever #smile. heart #sobbing

[drbtinglecannon]

The way in Knives Out that the entire Thrombey family constantly subjected Marta to racism for years ranging from micro aggressions to outright threats of deportation, that she knew all their fucked up dirty laundry and how they all were constantly exploiting Harlan's wealth, that they excluded her from Harlan's funeral and each blamed everyone else for it, and that they immediately dropped all pretenses of condescending civility when the will was read, yet she spent almost the entire movie sympathetic of them and wanting to gift them the fortune Harlan left her before finally standing up for herself in the last hour

Vs

The way in Glass Onion that Helen outright hated the entire "disrupters" group for at least ~10yrs before the movie even took place and made her opinion explicitly known, that her acting as her twin sister being jilted was so easy to maintain because she hated the entire group so much, that she didn't at all humor their extremely conditional "comradery" with her cause against Miles, and that in the end when everything was said and done she didn't stick around to watch them all turn on each other because it didn't matter anymore if they did or didn't

Marta's kindness got her the house.

Helen's justified fury burned Miles' down.

#knives out #glass onion #glass onion spoilers #thinking so hard how marta was personally treated like dogshit by the thrombeys for years & kept being gracious to them over their behavior #vs helen showing up absolutely pumped to ruin the disrupters lives bc they treated her sister poorly & 1 of them must've been her killer #marta got the house helen burned it down. blanc gave marta the closure that she was kind & a good nurse. blanc gave helen the literal #fuel to destroy miles' empire. i just love it theyre both incredible & so different #tc posts

[vyeoh]

As someone whos watched him since before i took a break from mcyt in middle school, I'm SO delighted to see the hermitcraft fandom discovering what an absolute experience Joel Smallishbeans is because as friends of Hermits are often are, a lot of HC fans just see a sliver of it and portray him as a quirked up white boy but no. He's not simply quirked up. He's actually unhinged. 1000% committed to any and all bits. Manic pixie nightmare.

#this is why i couldnt watch hermitcraft after watching empires 😭😭 #like it was just not engaging enough anymore #him+sausage+oli and then all the storylines #like thats the level im at and im so glad hes on hc so i can engage w the server again :] #vio.reblog #joel smallishbeans #smallishbeans #hermitcraft

[tacosransi]

when your wife finds out about all the chaos and destruction you caused while she was gone

#my art #digitalart #kaiju #monsterverse #godzilla #mothra #mothzilla #mosugoji #godzilla x kong: the new empire #gxk #hes just happy to see her again even when shes scolding him #and shes like 3 seconds away from beating his ass

[vaguely-concerned]

sometimes I think of all the on-the-surface warm, well-meaning but deeply ineffectual advice and attention john gives harrow through harrow the ninth (make some soup and get some sleep! get a hobby! don't be so hard on yourself! self care harrow! as long as I need take no actual responsibility in this relationship whatsoever I would have loved to be your dad!) set up against the stark truth that with his other hand he has been staging her attempted horrific murder again and again and again like a living nightmare on the logic that it will 'put her down or fix her'. and then I find that I wish there is a hell. a special hell where twitch streamers turned necromantic death emperors go

#the locked tomb #harrowhark nonagesimus #john gaius #harrow the ninth #this is why I don't buy john as misunderstood and initially well-meaning AT ALL #this is a pattern you see with him again and again and again -- right down to his interpersonal relationships #(and indeed it's in the more grounded interpersonal relationships you can most clearly see him as he is I think #the fantasy death empire of a thousand years doesn't register quite as viscerally because it's like. heightened; not quite real #but the emotional violence and manipulation that surrounds him? oh boy that is EXTREMELY real and scarily well-observed) #there's a premeditation to so much of what he does (contracts with planets that only end 'in the event of the emperor's death' anyone? #yeah john we get it you're hilarious and I wish you weren't) #the greatest trick john ever pulled was making anyone think he's just a lil guy. what does he know he's only god #when you first read the book the complete callousness of the other adults is so horrible that john seems like an oasis of care #(though you start to get this uneasy feeling when that care never seems to translate to like... relief or soothing or resolution) #and it makes it feel almost obscene when you find out what's actually going on #it's the mercy & augustine enabler hour but at least they're completely honest in their cruelty there #while john is -- well he sure is being john huh #this is just me being angry with him btw philosophically I don't think this is how the story will or should end #(with john slam dunked right into hell that is) #it's just... harrow is so vulnerable. and what he does to her is so insidious and fucked up #john is very deeply human. unfortunately the capacity to quite simply suck so much is deeply human too

[autistic-bashir]

finally got him in the clone wars art style but it came at the cost of his cunty eyeliner :(

#new design looks so good though like damn what an upgrade #thrawn #grand admiral thrawn #star wars #tales of the empire