#the early years ep

[taffybuns]

been rewatching the show again n i forgot how much i love the early seasons ourgh

#avoiding talking about early simon eps bc u can already see like 10 years worth of that illness documented here #adventure time #finn mertens #jake the dog #daddy's little monster #return to the nightosphere #dad's dungeon #goliad #soupdoodles

[muninnhuginn]

The thought that goes into the fake science in dungeon meshi can be something so special actually. Using golems to explain crop rotation and how removing predators from an ecosystem can have knock-on effects. Talking about symbiotic relationships and parasites too! And characters are actually interested in the science so they keep explaining about it. Finally, some exposition I can get behind.

#I tried to google to see if the author had any bio/chem/agriculture qualifications but no luck with a brief search #but like. just from reading up to early vol 2 I'm seeing so many lines where the in-universe science draws from rl #this is so much better than Kill the Moon aka the ep of dw that was so bad on science it made me drop the series for years #(admittedly the really bad abortion metaphor also contributed towards that decision but shhh) #dungeon meshi #I should maybe make a readthrough tag but I feel like if I do that I'm going to intimidate myself out of reading

[feelingtheaster99]

“What are you trying to forget, Kipperlilly?”

Damn what a DIRECT confrontation Kristen

#dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy ep 14 #fhjy spoilers #kristen applebees #kipperlilly copperkettle #the bad kids #the rat grinders #ally beardsley #brennan lee mulligan #it IS a good question though #why did she have a reason to use the devil’s honey as EARLY as before spring break last year??? #dawn of justice spoilers #dawn of justice #fantasy high spoilers #fantasy high speculation #live reaction

[angelsdean]

tv shows NEED to have 22 episode seasons with filler eps that range from "good and fun!" to "ohhh my god ur wasting my time get back to the plot!!" and be kinda shitty and low budget but full of heart on a network hanging together by shoe-strings and duct tape, is the thing. and they need to air week-by-week over the course of like 6 months to build suspense and engaging, invested fandoms. kids these days with their netflix-8-episode-binge-in-a-day streaming shows don't Know

#rewatching smallville and one tree hill and spn recently just. make me SO fond for early 2000s television #there's just something so special abt it. and you actually get to LIVE with these characters #it's why i generally have always preferred tv shows to movies and can watch hours of back to back eps but struggle to sit thru a movie #bc like. i want more TIME with characters. a movie is like 2 hrs tops. and then bye bye forever. a show? is days weeks years #which is why these short season binge shows are just not it for me. i'm done with them in like a day and then what? #vic.txt

[explodingstarlight]

the emo trinity is alive, well, and prospering in 2023

#what if i said i have been listening to FOB's new single on repeat since yesterday #immaculate music to draw to ngl #speaking of: remaining asks i PROMISE i see you omg #ANYWAY god bless and amen i can't believe early 2000's emo is alive and thriving rn #if you told 13 year old me this would happen i would laugh in your face #and they're all TOURING (or have been touring recently) #*takes a short break from turtle posting to cry over new music from bands i've been listening to for 10+ years* how true and autistic of me #mcr #paramore #fall out boy #we don't speak of Him here; their glory days are long dead #ifykyk #emo memes #idc if that's not the proper genre name im still using it and no one can stop me #foundations of decay #this is why #love on the other side #<- the titles of the singles/EP btw in case you haven't heard them yet

[brookheimer]

from strike sparks by sharon olds

#i rly forgot how much i liked olds’ later poetry like i’m not a huge fan of some of the early stuff but when she talks ab her family it’s #always just… god. #anyways. siobhan roy. obviously #obviously the second one did not happen . but replace mother with rather and i think that’s part of why shiv and the others can’t forgive #logan even beyond the obvious ones — who would they even be if they did? #it wasn’t forgiveness last ep when logan was dying but it was… it was something. something that felt i think a lot like this except yknow. #without the fucking closure. #but who are they now that they aren’t against logan? who are they? #sorry for the annotations lol this is from a few years ago #and i couldn’t find good screenshots easily online so #sharon olds #succession #literature #poetry #lit #succession spoilers #in the tags #click to read it . obviously

[littlechillis]

MA8 once a gunner...

#tomorrow is one year of littlechillis so this is an early celebration post!! #didn't mean for it to be so trophy-centric but i just ran with it..... don't look at me.... #also an ep of amanda discovers transitions!! #hope you enjoyed 😚🫶 #mikel arteta #arsenal #arsenal fc #edits!!

[utilitycaster]

Sort of a distant tangent off my post about Ashton, but I'm growing more and more suspicious of the fandom claim that there's no time for small RP moments in Campaign 3. I do think that it's been challenging to get deeper party bonding or serious conversations that aren't about the big philosophical questions they're facing, since those do take much more time; but then I think about Calamity, or Candela Obscura. I can genuinely give you at least a couple paragraphs about pretty much every relationship in the two Circles, or in the Ring of Brass. I can also point to no shortage of small moments between characters in the Mighty Nein Aeor or Vox Machina Vecna endgame episodes, which were all extremely plot-heavy and fast-paced, and D20 consistently nails character relationships in a fraction of the time.

I think it really does come down to, as Brennan Lee Mulligan always says, the character creation phase. Laying down a solid groundwork in which everyone has a detailed, rich backstory and sense of personality and relationship history (in the case of characters who knew each other prior to the start of the series) is absolutely crucial, and even in the case of characters who don't know each other before going in, a good amount of time spent in character creation ensures that it's easier for them to develop those interpersonal relationships on the fly. I know in actual play there's some degree of finding the character as you play, but there are games for which there is a very short runway, and I don't think it ever hurts to do more extensive character prep than the bare minimum. And if there are gaps, I think it also helps to go back and fill those in mid-way, away from the table - Travis clarifying Chetney's backstory being a great example that allowed the history of Chetney and Deanna to feel realized and full, despite only a few episodes.

I'll also be blunt: most of the time when people complain that there aren't moments because the plot keeps moving...they're mad about shipping. Which has always rung hollow to me. It was a common complaint in C2, that no time was taken for character relationships, despite them taking an entire half of an episode for the Beauyasha date and despite no shortage of moments for all three of the other couples (and plenty of platonic moments between friends). The issue was never a lack of time; it was that the characters they wanted to talk to each other didn't actually have the relationship in canon that the fans had dreamed up, and so, when the chips were down, they went to other people.

It takes two seconds to say something like "I hold their hand", even in the middle of plot-heavy adventuring. If someone doesn't say it, it's rarely the GM rushing them; it's the player either choosing not to do so, or not remembering to do so, and either of those is quite revealing regarding how the player feels about that relationship and where it stands in their priorities.

#i've felt this for a while but like. fundamentally? C3 is just...uniquely not set up for terribly satisfying shipping #even the ships I do like and that get small moments are relatively background #like 80% of quote unquote ship content is like. fanon goggles overlaying either parallel play or standard battle mechanics #which is fine! I think it's a different vibe and approach than the past 2 campaigns #i think especially in character creation; self-insert or easy for new players (c1) #followed by Morally Gray Campaign; Prove We Can Replicate This Success; Serious Characters (C2); followed by Let's Get Silly With It (C3) #which is less conducive to that profound connection of c1 or c2. which is not a bad thing! #but god. if you complain about the D&D show having too much d&d plot and not enough romance...yeah pal it's d&d not a dating sim #like I enjoy when there is romance in my fantasy but it's not a requirement. there is a genre full of romance. it is called romance. #i'm also thinking about this bc I need to watch wot s2 but i've been told that the fandom has gotten weird #like wow so moiraine/siuan is not the A plot? in a high fantasy Good vs. Evil series? WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT. #getting back to this...i'm also thinking about my own life and like. i moved to where i live not long pre-lockdown #and so i'm finding myself a resident of this area for 4+ years but with weaker connections than i'd have otherwise. and that's fine! #but psychologically i feel so weird about just starting to find my place bc it's been so long even though there's a good reason #and i wonder if the cast/Hells feels the same way ie why are we only just bonding now 70 eps in and so they're hesitant #that I Waited Too Long And Now It's Awkward feeling; that I Should Be Past This By Now fallacy #which. again. i think things early on could have been done differently but that time is past you need to live in the present now. #cr tag

[18catsreading]

Riz: got it. We don't have to talk about sex anymore, dad.

Pok: if you have any questions --

Riz: I actively don't want to talk about it.

Pok: the last time I was able to talk to you, you were nine years old. You've grown up a lot, kiddo. I really miss you.

Riz: I missed you too, dad.

Pok: this is ok to talk, for a father and a son. I missed all of puberty, maybe not all, but I missed a lot of it.

Riz: yea, I don't know, I just don't. It just isn't happenin' yet. Like not even just the act is not happening yet. Like me wanting to do it ... Is not happening yet. And my friends are all like super horny.

Pok: yea, that checks out. Well, kiddo, if it never happens that's also okay. There's a lot to life to enjoy, and I already know that you matter a lot to your friends and a lot to your family so if you never end up having those desires, that's completely okay bud.

Ally: ah, you're killing me in this episode

Pok: but if you, it's also okay if it doesn't happen for years, you know? That's also fine. You're your own person, it's gonna happen on your own time or not, and either way is a-okay bud. I won't lie, I know that me and your mom would love to see some grandkids, but that has nothing to do with procreation. That can happen a lot of other ways. Would love to have that Gukgak name continue. Gotta have another little young one scrambling around for blocks under the sofa.

#brennan lee mulligan #dimension 20 #fantasy high: sophmore year #ep 16 my green heaven #siobhan thompson #lou wilson #ally beardsley #zac oyama #emily axford #brian murphy #if you're like your old man you'll bloom in your [squints] junior year of college #ace rep #aro rep #you love to see it #people show love in different ways #this episode was a heavy hitter in the feels #cmon pok 15 is way too early to start the grandchild guilt trip

[allerod]

sorry for houseposting do you still think i'm hot

#i have more to say #like how in ep 4 they introduce a lesbian couple just to have someone's baby to kill #hatecrimes really atarted early huh #but i will spare you more thoughts. for today. my headache finally has gotten Bad #i hope i wake up tomorrow and this madness with me gone. unlikely tho bc when have i ever been normal about this series #house md #no sorry back to these tags to talk some more #i think watching things almost exclusively with friends for the last two years spoiled me #now i can't watch anything without running my mouth #whom wanna take one for the team and spend their weekend marathoning hatecrimes and malpractice the tv show with me

[foundfamilyadoptionagency]

#gabriel #the trickster #supernatural #spn #spn gabriel #gabriel spn #gabriel supernatural #adoption poll #no tags submitted #no image submitted #okay sorry to give my full supernatural backstory every time #but this guy saved the show for me early on #a few years ago i went from someone who avoided supernatural #to binging it with some friends to finally understand the tumblr culture #i very nearly bowed out early on because it was too dry for me in s1 #but then this guy shows up #and he's this op god trickster #and he's so funny #then i heard he was in other eps?? #i kept going just for him #well until crowley came along and then i had another reason to watch

[wheucto]

fanny as fan and test tube's child lore

#wheucto #art #inanimate insanity #bfdi #tpot #ii #ii au #bfdi au #tpot au #ii test tube #bfdi fanny #tpot fanny #i mean it doesnt have to involve time travel_ bfdi could've started after ii but i think this makes more sense #in early ii they do reference bfdi which seems to have started earlier than it #though how far in the timeline fanny is 'born' im not sure #one method is that she's born after the show / series ends #though making this au before ii has actually ended means that i dont have the information that would affect how fanny would grow up #another is that they have her after test tube is eliminated but this could also run into the same problems bc she has to grow up #(assuming_ of course_ they go through her first several years of life and not start her life at mentally 5 or smth) #they have her after ep 14 but after that i guess theyd just take her on boaty bc they did that with bot also they wouldnt want to leave her #also taking your child to what you think is a concert is like one of the mildest things ever so #though in s3? maybe they'd try to hide her from mephone? idk what their motivation would be behind that but *shrug* #after fan gets eliminated Maybe test tube tries to send her to hotel oj? like she makes a boat to take her to it? #or maybe she just lives on the island until mephone finds her or something. and then she's sent back to hotel oj #either way after s3e10_ when tt returns this scenario could happen #the last possible method i came up with is that they had her during s2. which? why would they do that #unless they accidentally made her combining their genetic samples or something #then i guess they could hide? that she exists? bc they're afraid they'd get kicked off the show if they have a child? #though that wouldnt be the healthiest of circumstances to raise a child. maybe thats why fannys like that #also when i say born in quotations it's bc they probably didnt reproduce naturally and made her in a tube (not test tube? maybe?) or smth

[trashabilly]

i was mad that bloodhound didn't get a beach skin

#my art #apex legends #apex bloodhound #bloodhound #apex fanart #i have done 2 finished drawings recently and theyre both shit memes so whatever #i got art burnout doing cover art for my fiances EP earlier this year and have yet to recover #also i dont even play apex anymore im just passionate abt bloodhound and extended viddygame lore #im on tumblr tonight bc my fiance went to bed early and im lonesome now

[aimaiina]

anyone on social media have any nice things to say abt lazy in space bcus honestly i feel like im the only person who Liked it 😭😭 ive seen nonstop negativity on every social media im on its sucks so bad...learn to enjoy things

#like Yes there are some flaws but its so good!! its so fucking good!! i have loved this show for Nine Years and i thought lazy in space was #amazing!!!!!!! #ppl rlly seem to think the 1st season stopped existing or that it was a remake and its not! At All!!! #its Season Two they just remade some of the early episodes for the first few eps.....its not a complete remake #and who cares if there's no 'mystery' with the lore....there was barely any mystery to begin with 😭 #bapc #bee and puppycat #jamie.txt

[sunburnacoustic]

Jonesey's Jukebox interview: The way Matt's just kind of eyeballing every little bit of his own life and has no memory of anything and Dom's just like "Do you want a real answer?" is just. Dom is the historian in this band. Dom's the only one who remembers anything lol, Chris may remember bits but that's certainly not Matt

The band's very own MuseWiki, Dom Howard

#Muse band #Matt Bellamy #with no memory built in whatsoever #Dom Howard #resident rememberer/MuseWiki reader #Muse #Muse interviews #Matt from Muse #Dom from Muse #Muse gifs #2017 #Jonesey's Jukebox #Simulation Theory #musicians #this was so so early though it was a year before album 1. They were just going off these EPs and gigs in basically the southwest of England #and some London dates—as Matt said they were 19 #rock music #music #choice muse quotes #music quotes #Steve Jones #Sex Pistols (again for organisation)

[peacemaker-ic]

So it hasn’t just been fixing CC over the past few days. i did get early access via The Creator network, so I have been playing around with the building update as that's more my thing. And man do I have thoughts. It really isn’t where I want it to be and quite frankly, I doubt I will be using curved walls much at all. Also half walls are not supported at this time (hopefully down the line?) so I am going to nag them to make that a priority. For me, without curved half walls, it’s only half implemented. I did manage to make a nice Art Deco shell though 🤷‍♂️

#ea creator network #early access #High School Years #High School Years EP #TS4 #TS4HSY