#like. he is. very principled. you get me? but he embodies an unhinged sense of violence and primal instinct that unmade ajax inside out

[nacrelysis]

you've heard of the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny, now get ready for monoceros caeli: ultimate smackdown of ultimate proportions

#genshin #genshin impact #childe #monoceros caeli #tartaglia #childe tartaglia #genshin memes #genshin impact memes #genshin shitposts #his battle is really not that bad; it's the music that gets me #especially the part that mimics the call of a whale #it is all a very visceral reminder that childe is. whatever he is. you know? #like he's just some guy a mortal even but at the same time he's touched by the abyss and everything the gods fear #idk how to express that childe is like. so wild. to me. #he gives me soooo much secondhand embarrassment sometimes but also he is like a terrifying example of the product of your circumstances #fell in a hole and he came out clinging to violence as a tool of survival #family guy doesn't like involving civilians but once you're on his level oooo boy #like. he is. very principled. you get me? but he embodies an unhinged sense of violence and primal instinct that unmade ajax inside out #so honestly childe terrifies me more as a character than any other in genshin i think #because he is so principled but of what you've seen of the abyss - no mortal principle will stop it from consuming #he fascinates me in the way similar to the opening scene in train to busan #it's morbidly intriguing but at the same time there is dramatic irony - you know eventually something will go wrong. and it Is wrong already #anyways. every day childe gaslights me ab his character. i never know which interpretation is right. #btw for context ultimate showdown is a lemon demon song #very banger listen to it. thumbs up

[mylittleredgirl]

trekathon: discovery pilot

the discovery pilot is just brutal knowing what’s coming. 

now that we have Captain Burnham (!!!) it’s interesting to see captain georgiou recommend her for promotion back in the pilot, when it’s so clear that she wasn’t ready before she went through 9 lifetimes worth of trauma in 3 years

but then, it was a VERY different starfleet before the war, with the implication that the shenzhou crew have never even been in a non-simulated battle

now that i love michael with my whole heart, watching her get triggered by childhood trauma, go completely unhinged, and make the biggest mistake of her life in real time? ouch. OUCH. ouch 🙁

other items of Delight:

jetpack joyride michael, just having a good time looking at cool space stuff, having no idea that “changing the course of the universe while flying through space in a jet-powered suit” is going to become a recurring theme for her

captain georgiou tolerating ongoing squabbling among her senior officers because it amuses her

sarek like “i KNOW you did not call me for emotional support”

the fact that starfleet ships have Ethical Subroutines you can argue with is amazing and explains why kirk is so well-prepared to break the brain of every AI he encounters.

things i completely forgot:

keyla with two eyes?? she presumably lost her eye off-screen in this epic battle, and i think they mention this in the airiam episode, which means i have now managed to forget this twice

saru makes clicking sounds?

totally forgot saru was the science officer on the shenzhou, so perhaps that doesn’t actually require any specific qualifications and tilly can be science officer in season 4 after all if she wants to idk

controversy™️:

1. klingons:

my biggest Unpopular Opinion in the discotrek fandom is that i like the disco klingons. 

really! love the look. love the brutality. love their whole aesthetic. they feel to me like The Great Klingon Enemy that would justify kirk’s reaction to them.

it was nice of them to bring the epic hair back in s2 i guess, but i really enjoy the shock of how alien they look in the disco pilot. they were already physically redesigned once when budget and technology allowed, in the TOS movies, so it works for me that they did it again. 

i’ve talked about my “lord give me canon or something better” and i’ll trade in the “klingons dispose of the corpse by the most efficient means possible” canon for “klingons line the outside of their ships with armored coffins so the dead can fight alongside them another day” because that is metal as fuck

2. did michael cause the war:

I Mean Yes, Technically, But Not That Way

because she did kill the torchbearer, accidentally, which set the stage for everything that followed

(and killing t’kuvma after georgiou was already dead created the martyr situation they wanted to avoid)

the mutiny itself was irrelevant, war-wise, but the coincidence of “starfleet officer commits first mutiny ever and orders crew to start war” and “war begins 20 seconds later, as a result of something she did earlier, not mutiny related” makes it difficult to tease those threads apart, both for michael personally and for everyone else in the quadrant. 

3. noooooooooo:

oh captain georgiou, we hardly knew ye 😭

this is one of the many star trek things that work better after the fact, as part of a larger narrative whole, than they do in real time (when promotional material/expectation/fandom reaction plays such a large role). 

and as hard as it is to watch and live through again, in retrospect, the grief/redemption story it let them tell is important, and the sheer galactic scale of it is how complicated grief feels.

and it feels necessary for the story. georgiou is the embodiment of pure, hopeful, principled starfleet, and all of that dies with her. 

as the emperor points out on several occasions, michael expends a lot of effort trying to save someone/apologize to someone who is already dead. and she can’t, which is the brutal reality of grief. 

but she ultimately saves what georgiou represents: the honor and heart of starfleet and the federation. and in doing so, michael makes the federation whole in the 32nd century, and becomes whole again herself. 

like you know! georgiou! would be so proud of her!!!!!

all told, the mistake seems more in the promotional choices than in the choice to kill her, if that makes sense. (and that many people just Did Not, and continually Do Not Want the story that discovery is telling.)

regardless can we put to bed the narrative that discovery “realized their mistake after she died and brought her back” as if ... it weren’t ...... really obviously planned that michelle yeoh would return in the mirror universe, a mirror universe that’s a necessary part of the entire season

most importantly, we need 95 short treks about her and have they made a shenzhou line of tie-in books yet??

#trekathon #discotrek #discotrek spoilers #it's unpopular opinion time here at the little red house of disco #star trek discovery