#second favorite member

[zip-zoom]

hi . more hypmic art

#first a dotsuhon redraw because i thought it would be fun #i had planned on working on it more but i kinda got tired of it oh well. also i got other shit to work on #and second: my favorite members of each division #i love these silly guys #anyways #hypmic #hypnosis mic #dotsuitare hompo #rosho tsutsujimori #sasara nurude #rei amayado #my art #doodles #i say doodles but both of these took multiple hours to complete

[sourscratched]

requested by @incorrect-play-it-by-ear: compilation of all the play it by ear end credit moments in season 2; many little dances and bops to be had

#play it by ear #heartbeat hospital heebie jeebies elevator pitch and missing member have my favorite end jams #and of course Goodnight Mano in backwards compatible #mano picking up the water bottle and vibing to Come Into The Scrum.. relatable #also ross seconds away from collapsing at the beginning of the joust because credits lmfao #the psychic aftermath of Okay Daddy Wheelbarrow Me was too much for him #was debating whether to go youtube or embedded vid so hopefully this is okay #tumblr app really did not like me trying to upload a 4 minute video

[victoriawondersea]

#rammstein #ramms+ein #oliver riedel #oliver riedel is my second favorite band member #zeit era #rammstein 2023

[piejumper]

Splatoon band lore is so funny half the time it's like "these are 5 of the most musically talented sentient fish in the world and they all graduated from music college and are the hottest thing since sliced bread" and you listen to their music and it's like somebody is drowning a vocalist while aggressively playing a violin and it's good

#second favorite piece of splatoon band lore is that the inkling version of the beatles broke up #cause one of em found the rest of the members to be too agreeable about their music writing process with eachother #said guy then went on to pair up with a equally pretentious octopus who argues with him and also has a travel blog and rich parents #their band name is a pun on how awful they are together and they're really popular too #splatoon

[mikoran]

amazing that terezi is one of the characters in homestuck with the most canonical rizz. you go girl get those bitches

#shes was the center of a love triangle. her and gamzee had some kismesis (albeit toxic) shit happening. everything with vriska #i love terezi so much my favorite creature #homestuck #terezi pyrope #second to none except maybe jake english who somehow captivated every member of his friend group #actually i think with pure numbers terezi beats him by one #vriska is tied with him i think

[iamnoonewhoareyou]

Restarting Skyrim and literally only joining the companions as an excuse to fuck farkas.

#least favorite guild but my most favorite guild member #except maybe brynjolf #jury’s still out #either way they share first place and faralda is second

[personinthepalace]

Went to some local bookstores with my friend today and couldn’t resist buying the Spy x Family manga!

#I haven’t bought a book for myself in years #and I’ve never read a manga before so this is going to be fun haha #quite a fun day today #had a shadow intern ask me if I had a boyfriend #and I’m like lol never (ace for the win) #and then later while hanging out with my best friend #she drops the news that SHE has a boyfriend #things from the last two months makes so much sense now hahaha #anyway we originally planned on going to one bookstore but ended up going to two #the second one turned out to be one that her dad was a member of years ago #and then we got salt and straw bc we bought never ate there before haha #and then we went through a fancy carwash bc her car needs cleaning #and I told her I’ve never been in one before haha #and we listened to the some like it hot soundtrack in the car #so yes an excellent day out today haha #also that is my bookshelf with some of my favorite books in the back #spy x family #spy x family manga #what I did today #about me #personal #rambles in the palace #books #bookshops

[transgenderdoctorwhomst]

So I've spent the past like, two weeks, trying to dissect with my partner what exactly is making 13's first season so... uninteresting and even just bad to us. And today I've finally figured it out!

Obviously just my opinions, disclaimer I've only watched up to the end of Spyfall, this is not intended as hate but rather criticism, and you are completely free to disagree or just ignore the whole post..

I'm going to put this under a cut in order to not take up the whole dash. Topics: The Doctor's autism, and the dynamics between 13 and her companions. So, let's start!

The failure to characterize 13 consistently with past incarnations, especially in regards to the Doctor's naturally rebellious nature and extremely visible autism.

As someone who's autistic, the very very consistent autistic traits in the Doctor are always extremely obvious. And for an incarnation written with that in mind, you'd think that it would be consistent, right?

But here's where something major about the Doctor is missing: so far, as of the end of Spyfall part 2, I have rarely seen 13 engage extensively with her special interests. The only examples I can think of are when she meets Rosa Parks, visits Kerblam!, and when she meets the Solitract.

The Doctor has a strong tendency to get so caught up in their special interests that they basically will not shut up about it when it comes up, often rambling without fully checking if someone is actually listening. I... feel like I rarely see 13 do it that much? Sure, she's happy to explain things when she's asked, and she clearly has special interests, the sheer prevalence it should have in how she engages with the world is just... not really there.

The lack of it makes it feel like her character is missing something major, and was hard to put together that it was this specifically that was bothering me. I can think of a million examples of each Doctor respectively engaging with their special interests near constantly, but it feels like it's hardly there for 13 in comparison.

As for her rebellious nature, 13 has so far been remarkably passive about capitalistic crimes. I'm sure we all remember her and Kerblam!. And the spiders in the hotel. You would expect the Doctor to challenge the systems that caused those respective problems, encourage the people in those systems to fix it, but she just sort of... doesn't.

She doesn't care the warehouse employees have to save up miniscule wages just to see their family once a year, that they're tracked and constantly under threat of losing what little income they have, that even though society has progressed so this can all be automated, the powers that be are not adapting with that to provide basic necessities to the public, and instead are telling everyone they're lucky if they get to be indentured to Kerblam!. The Doctor stops a man from committing terrorism (because all protesters of these systems are also serial killer terrorists, clearly), and then doesn't stop to deal with the root cause. She just tells him he's wrong, is satisfied the company will hire more humans (put more people in the meat grinder), and leaves.

The spiders episode is a whole thing, focusing more on the side effects of the actual problem, which is capitalist businessmen cutting corners for profit and ignoring regulations, and getting away with it. The message of the episode at the end comes out as "you shouldn't actively kill any living thing for any reason", citing trapping the spiders in a room to die as more humane. But I would strongly disagree.

The humane thing to do for those spiders, who were mutated, suffering, and having a negative impact on both the local spiders and humans, would have been to swiftly kill them. The Doctor cares more about not feeling bad about killing the spiders than the system that made this happen in the first place, or ending their suffering, which feels wildly out of character.

2. The companions don't feel like they have a lot going on, and lack the kind of strange connection past companions have.

So, Graham Ryan and Yaz are all kind of just boring. I see the dynamics and relationships they're supposed to have with each other, but none of it feels compelling. I don't feel any connection to them.

At first, I thought that it was because Chibnall introduced three companions in the first episode. It's definitely a contribution, since having to introduce four major characters compared to one or two isn't the easiest thing to do. But it's possible.

Torchwood introduces six characters to us at the start: five members of Torchwood 3, and Gwen. Every single character feels distinctive, they have clashing personalities that also bounce of each other. The introduction feels great, and you can immediately watch their characters develop and change over the course of the first season.

The Doctor and the Fam? I literally cannot tell you distinctive personality traits about each of them besides basic vibes. It took until Spyfall for them to start feeling distinct. I can't tell you major flaws, major anything. I can barely describe their respective relationships to the Doctor, besides "weird friend with the time machine we know nothing about."

The single thing portrayed as a flaw in the Doctor is that she doesn't like talking about herself unprompted. They don't know a lot about her, but in her defence, they barely ask.

Past companions in New Who always have some strange relationship with the Doctor. Rose is having a situationship with him after he blew up her workplace, and has complex feelings about how travelling with him affects her life at home. Martha is having this weird situation where he's using her to fill the gap left by Rose, while trying to keep his distance, and Martha is just trying to figure out how the fuck to get him to look at her as her own person. Donna decided she wanted more in life, and by god was she going to grab the Doctor and take it, assigning herself his new best friend.

Amy met the Doctor as a child, obsessed over him for 14 years, ran away with him before her wedding, and then dragged Rory along, and ended up with the weirdest family dynamics possible. Rory isn't sure how to feel about the Doctor, and the two of them for some reason take turns being the "mature" one. Clara is overly dedicated to him and deeply enjoys the power trip that comes along with having time travel.

I can't speak about Bill or Nardole, because I haven't actually met them, but I know there's some kind of dynamic going on there.

The point is, every individual has some kind of distinctive and very strange relationship with the Doctor, from the very start. Friends, but something else. Romantically interested in each other, but dancing around that boundary. The 13th Doctor has absolutely nothing strange or compelling with hers so far.

Like, I could think of at least some with what we have! 13 decides Graham is her grandson, because Ryan and Yaz have a grandparent figure, but Graham doesn't, and then extends that to Ryan with deciding to be a great-great-grandparent figure to him.

At least in her first season, she doesn't seem opposed at all to a relationship with Yaz. The Doctor is notoriously weird about relationships. If Yaz panicked and told her mom that she was dating the Doctor, the Doctor could just roll with it and now Apparently They're Dating ???. It could be so fun! But there just... isn't anything!

Maybe it gets better in her second season onwards, but these kinds of things should be established fairly quickly. Like, at least halfway through the first series. I genuinely hoped her first season would be better on a rewatch, because I watched it while it was airing, and dropped the show after because I was just so not into it. I shouldn't have to be doing this much work to make it interesting to me! I shouldn't be enjoying early Moffat Who more than this!

Anyways if you read all this, I am very happy to hear thoughts and counterpoints, just please don't send me hate anons :)

#doctor who #thirteenth doctor #meta posting #ramblings #ok to reblog #i do like 13 she's just like. my least favorite so far #theres so much missed potential. babygirl i could fix you #this is 2 for 2 of chibnall shows ive seen where the first season is mid at best #and then picks up in the second season #i think he just sucks at making his own characters #he's fine when he's writing existing characters #i like every single torchwood team member #like a lot #i did not intend this post to be this long. whoops

[usareiis]

#my favorite on first listen #i need to go back through the whole thing again but 95% of the time the album does exactly what it should #in terms of sounding like a txt album and doing the kind of experimental stuff a minisode should do #as a whole i like it and the aesthetic better than the last album #however i think the killa shouldn't have made it to the album idc #literally two days ago people were saying a zionist was involved in producing it and now it's all yayyy ~sex~ song #like it sounds generic and it doesn't go with the plot of the album and soobin has literally talked before about being oversexualized... #...making him uncomfortable and everyone just ignores stuff like that bc everyone acts like the second you don't make a idol sexy the... #...second they 'turn legal' that they're 'grown ass men' you're infantilizing #like. idk how to explain to you how annoying it is just to define being an adult by having sex like it's not universal 😭 #i don't even mean to say this in some kind of puritan censorship kind of way it's just annoying to view adulthood just as sex time? #especially in this situation this is his job 😭 he's at work 😭 #and everyone being like but this song sounds gay 🥺 well a zionist produced it i'm so glad you have moral standards #it isn't inherently infantilizing to not talk about sex or to not have sex either that's such an annoying marker of adulthood #and this little prince concept is so unique and interesting just to toss in a generic ass song #like stick to what makes txt unique and stop trying to make broad appeal music #they took me out with all of the bad collaborations last year like just stooooppp #especially when you hear members say they only get to make music that's their own personal taste sometimes like let them have more voice!!!! #anyway 😭 #music

[digitalagepulao]

break from two Big things for a quick "small" thing

i love ridiculous size differences so much it makes me dumb, this is a +4m tall Sha Wujing safe space <33

#also first pass on our favorite second-most-overlooked member #gotta chisel some more details but #it's looking up <3 #bell dragon art

[shipping-all-ships]

You guys remember that post about prisoners who were given cats for rehabilitation and people were worried about the cats safety but the prisoners bonded with their cats and were so protective that someone got killed for spitting on someone else’s cat? Yeah, that’s the League with the stray kitten they found abandoned on the side of the road.

They always keep the kitten with them, always on someone’s shoulders or in their arms, and during a fight Endeavour accidentally kicks the cat. 

Silence. Then:

“Did you just kick my fucking cat?!” the League screeches before turning their murderous rage onto him. Toga is holding the cat and crying while the cat hams it up because it knows acting pathetic get more attentions.

He barely makes it out alive thanks to his teammates but is now known as the cat kicker hero. His reputation is in even more shambles.

#bnha #my hero academy #league of villains #it's a little albino kitten a little scraggly and has a scar on it's forehead and everyone has fallen in love immediately #the cat is better taken care of than they are #they get it a bed and high quality canned cat food and fresh spring water and a little cat tent while they fight gigantomachia #it's a VIP member of the PLF and Shigaraki's direct second in comand #it keeps trying to eat skeptic's hair and loves napping in geten's hood #laying across shigaraki's shoulders is it's favorite spot #next to sleeping in dabi's coat pocket and hiding under mr compress hat

[mihai-florescu]

Nah the holy vehicular manslaughter thing in relation to enstars actually isnt that odd on its own, i know at least three acounts who will say something to that effect commonly enough. It only becomes strange after finding out you arent a tatsumiP

Im not a tatsumiP but i believe in their beliefs

#ive had a tatsumi phase tho i think #i definitely remember he was in my top 10 at some point #out of the alkakurei members tatsumis my second favorite and is in my top 15 characters for sure #for what its worth #ask #anon

[radiofreederry]

ADHD king

#bart is my second favorite flash family member tbh #comics

[thistaleisabloodyone]

I love how I watched Justice is Blind, saw the sheer height that the person Takuma kicked over reached in comparison to everyone else (implying that mbr jumped when everyone else got pulled), went "Is that Kenta "Born-to-be-a-Showman" Kamiya?" and it was.

#the rampage from exile tribe #the rampage #kamiya kenta #kenta kamiya #kenta honestly has the second best stage presence in the entire rampage behind kazuma in my opinion #(and it's not like he's my favorite member and i'm biased #i just think he's fucking amazing to watch when he performs) #also for anyone who is curious the pairs are (kicker then sitting mbr) #makoto and kaisei #riku and takahide #takuma and kenta #likiya and rui #itsuki and ryu #kazuma and shohei #shogo and yamasho #and hokuto and zin #notably - while i would've stuck the shorter mbrs on the floor #in almost every case #the person sitting is taller than the person kicking over them #exceptions are kenta (170cm/5'6.9) and takuma (175cm/5'8.8) #and shohei (169cm/5'6.5) and kazuma (170cm/5'6.9)

[slav-every-day]

#omg I just watched the best movie on Hulu #we’ll actually I just watched two movies on Hulu #the first was one of my guilty favorite genre of movie #(aka centered around homophobic straight person/people learning their family member/friend is gay and going through it about it) #(I can actually list at least 4 of those movies of the top of my head and today I watched the 4th) #(okay okay the 4 movies I can think of are: #mambo italiano 2003 #oy vey my son is gay 2009 #fourth man out 2015 #hazlo como hombre (which is basically 4th man out but in Mexico) #all of these movies suck ofc ofc) #but the SECOND movie I watched was *chefs kiss* actually a good movie #it’s called Dramarama 2020 and it’s basically a bunch of Christian theater kids going nuts during a college going away party #and it’s also set in the 90s for some reason #it was literally so funny and tense and charming and real #literally highly recommend it 1000/100 #slav #slav every day #voltron

[todayisafridaynight]

Okay so I was going to be in these comments asking who the fuck would be a Korn fan in the Yakuza world but there is one option Aoki when he was in a wheelchair… that or slipknot.

in love with how you refer to him as 'aoki when he was in a wheelchair'. we stan someone who doesn't deadname

#snap chats #maybe he'd like disturbed tbh.... i hope he listens to My Child around sawashiro i'd piss laughing #disturbed's not Too Heavy like korn or slipknot so theyre not as 'rash' if you catch my cold. Respectfully. i love disturbed so much #anyway he would've loved See You On The Other Side <- my second favorite korn album #daigo reads more as a 90's slipknot fan tho #have yall heard they let go over their latest drummer jesus christ what's going on with them #first joey passes away RIP Joey he was a phenomenal drummer and now this #'respectful decision' shut up there's never JUST a Respectful Decision when it comes to bands losing members