#this has been a TedTalk

[dcviline]

people: “why would Ned warn Cersei that he was going to tell Robert about the kids omg he’s so dumb”

me:

#᯽ ooc. ⊱ ── ❝ 𝘖𝘩 𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪. ❞ #violence tw #child death tw #once again I say that people miss the point of the series by shitting on Ned for trying to do the right thing #and praising Cersei Petyr and Varys for taking advantage of that #the point is literally this society = bad! monarchy = bad! aristocratic power struggles = bad! #not ‘it’s okay to be a shitty person as long as you win and trying to be good is Dumb™️’ #I’m tired of the edgelord takes #also the ‘Ned should have known Cersei wouldn’t listen to him’ thing like WHY #Ned DOESNT know Cersei. They barely fucking interacted outside of like three encounters. #and in each one the biggest conclusion Ned can draw is she will do what it takes to protect her children #and to him that includes self sacrifice for them. he thinks she would trade life as queen to protect them. #because he DOESNT know that Cersei is a narcissist that will protect *herself* first and foremost #WE know Cersei because we have the advantage of being an audience to everything happening. NED DOESNT HAVE THAT KNOWLEDGE TO WORK WITH. #he sees a mother lioness protecting her cubs. he operates on that knowledge. #he doesn’t know he is dealing with a literal narcissist who would further risk her children by not removing them from the situation #to keep her own power #this has been a TedTalk

[buggachat]

tbh I really like the idea of married Adrien and Marinette adopting their kids. Both because it's kind of a flex on Gabriel and Emilie (who thought that the appropriate response to difficulty conceiving was to hunt down ancient magical artifacts and then create a magical son that they could puppeteer and control...... because adoption/surrogates were apparently.... beneath them. or something.) but also because I just think it'd be really cute.

Like, imagine Ladybug and Chat Noir, heroes of Paris, adopting Parisian orphans. imagine Marinette and Adrien struggling to get on the good side of a "difficult" traumatized child who used to spend their days in the foster system fantasizing about Ladybug and Chat Noir saving them without realizing the new parents trying to connect with them rn ARE Ladybug and Chat Noir. Imagine them fostering kids themselves and just being A+ stellar parents between Adrien's patience and Marinette's attentiveness and both of their affection. idk I just think there's a lot there and it could be sosososo sweet

#also ok. TO BE CLEAR: astruc has implied on twitter that sentimonsters are capable of reproducing. so this isnt like CANON or anything. BUT #........ what if they couldn't teeeheee!!!!! just for meeeee!!! for my little adoption aus!!!!!!!!!!! xoxoxo #(not that you can't adopt while also being able to conceive but yknow makes it more likely or whatever) #but yeah ive always been a big huge sucker for adoption and adoption stories and i want to gobble them up. thanks for coming to my tedtalk

[wolfythewitch]

please talk about cheek kissing and yearning please I wanna hear about it

OKAY SO

I live and die by cheek kissing okay it's about the yearning

Now. I'm not going to Admit that the post was about Judas this is purely hypothetical But as someone who's had an entire conversation about betrayal and unrequited love, it's about damning the two of us, it's about sending you to your death and inevitably, me to mine. My last touch will not be on your lips, not while I use my own to bloody your name. It will be on your cheek, where tears will pass over when they fall, and where blood will stream from your crown of thorns, where sunlight withdrew her touch as the veil tears in two

I am your betrayer and your lover both

#jiksvokrat #this is me being mentally ill over any touch that is not directly on the lips #you can also do the lips theres intimacy in that #but my friend has convinced me that jesus and john is the endgame so i stand by that #wolfy tedtalks #hypothetically of course #the post could have been about anyone really

[greenerteacups]

hi GT!! how are you, hope you are doing well <3

I find myself having a lot of spare time and decided to re-read LH again from the beginning. I’ve only just come up to the winter holidays, when they go home for the first time since beginning school, and I was gobsmacked when you mentioned Narcissa’s age—like WDYM SHE’S ONLY 32 AND A WIDOW. Plus add the fact that she’s raised Draco alone by the time she’s in her late 20s, and was basically called a madwoman.

Like, I cannot fathom having experienced what she experienced with her family a few years before that (loved your Narcissa one shot btw) AND THEN her kid fucks off to school and suddenly she finds herself in such a precarious situation where:

1. Her kid’s a bloody Gryffindor and what could that possibly mean for them and their legacy;

2. Her social life’s gone to shit and everyone thinks she’s gone loony (even if she doesn’t really give a fuck); AND

3. She’s now being watched by the government, despite having minimal to no involvement in her husband’s previous predilections (debatable, but again, I think she simply gave zero fucks).

Like, girl. I get why she’s gone batshit and I fully support it, AND IM NOT EVEN HALFWAY THROUGH BOOK 1. I fear Narcissa truly is a bad bitch and I can’t wait to see what she does in the coming chapters (especially right after that truly delicious Occlumency lesson).

This is what I'm SAYING Draco's cohort in general were born to insanely young parents from a college-age James and Lily having Harry to Arthur and Molly getting married fresh out of high school to Narcissa (canonically born 1955) having Draco in 1980 (at age 25). Her brain finishes developing the same year she gets pregnant! When both her and her roughly same-aged husband are in the middle of a war!! How do you move on from that? What do you even do??

#greenteacup asks #narcissa is so cool. like a bad person perhaps. deeply and knowingly complicit in fascism. but also — crucially — very cool. #this has been my 700kword tedtalk. #lionheart spoilers

[neptunite-stars]

i cannot get over his smile when he sees tsumugi enter the room euueueueuue

#enstars #rambles #ensemble stars #natsume sakasaki #gif #anyway this has been my tedtalk

[ryonello]

nanobomb caramelldansen dot mp4

#nanobomb #killjoy #raze #klara böhringer #tayane alves #caramelldansen #caramelldansen misheard LMAOOOO #this has been stuck in my head all morning JKHSGKLHLKHSFG #anyway . very low effort but i wanted it done and it sparked joy . thanks for coming to my tedtalk #my art #vids #valorant

[lovepoem]

please consider coach z / senor cardgage. please consider them spending time in an alleyway together, having a dinner date on a discarded cardboard box with candles by them made of soap. consider bubs unironically starting to get jealous. consider senor cardgage switching between calling coach z ma'am and also sir inbetween sentences. and then also consider their disgusting makeout sounds.

#homestar runner #thank you. this has been my tedtalk #skylar speaks

[5-pp-man]

Matakara and Oushi really remind me of one another in the sense that they're both stuck in the way things used to be with their childhood friend, and they desperately try to cling onto that friend while said friend is ready to change and move on with someone else.

The big difference is that Matakara is putting Arajin on a pedestal as some kind of god of strength and resilience, while Oushi is doing the exact opposite and treating Yuki like she's weak and vulnerable and could never handle the world outside of the one they had when they were little.

#bucchigiri #bucchigiri?! #matakara asamine #yubisaki to renren #a sign of affection #oushi ashioki #i love character comparisons can you tell. this season has been brimming with things i can compare to stuff ive already seen #i doubt many ppl are watching both of these shows but. ah well #tedpost #tedtalks

[autisticlalna]

"leo why the fuck did viking just assign vintage as a stand-in for you and murder them" WELL

okay. listen. i was doing the regular dnerds activity of speculating on what was happening bc everyone was hyping up saturday (today) because it was Something Big. and so, i collected several pieces of evidence to a theory:

viking has a skyblock series that avid appeared in

avid was in ruby's chat hinting about stuff, including talking about A Server and asking how tsmp's /live works

avid previewed a song about skyblock

...that was similar to a song viking improv'd about skyblock, suggesting another collab between them

various other people were implying being involved, most of which collab'd with avid previously like acornbandit

avid and doovid appeared in trog's most recent potatoblock episode

avid was generally the one hinting at stuff the most, like posting a skyblock emoji in his sneak peek channel

and then, a Really Big Thing that i literally could not say publicly because i was not supposed to see it. someone in avid's discord SOMEHOW spotted the Skyblock Kingdoms server in a server list and shared a screenshot in avid's discord a month ago, but avid deleted the message for Turbo Spoilers Reasons.

on top of all of that, i have been Away. all of the hype build-up to SBK was while i was with a bunch of dnerds In Real Life and didnt have access to my laptop + was only checking my phone occasionally. so when everybody was doing wink-wink nudge-nudge stuff again, i couldnt properly collect all my evidence and The Biggest Piece I Had was, again, something i could not publicly say.

so the conclusion i drew from all of that was "Avid is making a Skyblock server that Viking is on".

...it was Viking's server and Avid is hosting it (because Avid has hosted stuff for him previously, like Hardcore Multiplayer).

OOPS

anyway so that's why Viking wanted to burn an effigy of me on stream. Vintage is my effigy i guess. SORRY VINTAGE.

#leo.txt #sbk #I DO ACTUALLY FEEL REALLY BAD BC VIKING HAS BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR LIKE. A YEAR. #SO LIKE OBVS IT SUCKS FOR SOMEBODY TO CREDIT HIS BIG PROJECT TO SOMEBODY ELSE. IM SORRYYYYYYYYYYYY #in my defense: Literally Everything Avid Has Done In Proximity To Me. thanks for coming to my tedtalk #sorry i got you killed vintage </3 #i was also wrong on several other things (i thought dornish was on it and i thought itd be a direct evolution of wanderer skyblock) #(although i didnt say that second one publicly. i WOULDVE if i was able to actually lay everything out properly but i couldnt)

[the---hermit]

I am going through a mild reading slump and of course my brain is trying to convince me to reread the lord of the rings

#the things is i have read lotr exactly 10 years ago and have not reread it since #i think i listened to the audiobook of the fellowship a few years ago but it's not the same things #and i really REALLY want to do a reread #but i have a block because what if i don't pick it up at the right time and what if i don't enjoy it as much as the first time? #my plan was maybe reading it in the summer when i won't have uni things to balance and i'll be able to really dive into the book #but in the past couple of days my brain has been telling me i should reread it now #and i know for a fact it's the wrong moment #i am way to busy and have to read so much for uni already #but on the other hand i am a mood reader so maybe in the summer i won't be in the mood to reread lotr #uuuuuuugh i truly feel what my old italian teacher used to say when she was like: #i kinda wish i'd break a leg so i could reread lotr unbothered #man she was so right #i think i might attempt reading a couple of pages and see what my heart tells me to do #i would also try to attempt reading it in the original english this time instead of the translated version but idk if my brain can do that #in conclusion i am going through a book crisis and i am doubting my brain thanks for coming to my tedtalk #cris speaks #the---hermit

[applescabs]

watching new brutalfoods; hahah wow im happy hes mixing in the more high-end editing he used to do with the ytp-esque stuff he does nowadays. this style particularly reminds me of his fmv-era and televo-

chef ian; <enters weird room with plant and tv>

me;

#YOURE KIDDINGGGGG #ITS BEEN SO LONG..... #last one was in 2018 omg... #if he really is gonna continue itll be the comeback of the century. #you have no idea how excited i got when i realised where the video was going. #televoid #brutalmoose #tedpost #tedtalks #listen ive been w this guy ever since he was a part of hidden block. thats how long its been. ive loved all his eras. #he just has the amazing talent of making literally anything entertaining to watch.

[boy-above]

venti is already an adult i am so tired of some people insisting the 2600(+) year old depressed alcoholic god is a child because he looks feminine. i'm tired of people doing "adult venti" designs as an excuse to make him more masculine. there's female characters that have the same proportions as he does but they dont "look like they're 12" to these people because they're women therefore femininity is acceptable, but a male character having feminine proportions means immediate infantilization for any male character no matter how obvious it is that they're an adult. "adult venti" my ass you just made cisgender venti / adheres to gender roles venti 🙃🙃🙃

#to be clear i know there's Some ppl who also try to insist that some female characters are kids despite being obvious adults but they're not #NEARLY as common as people who do it for male characters because people can't seem to accept a cute male character at face value #the reason this makes me feel so strongly is that i'm an adult who looks 12 and has never once been correctly clocked as adult by strangers #and im also a man. and i have a round face and big eyes like venti and it's just important to me okay #those little 'uwu' anime boys yall love to make fun of resonate with me. they're men who look like me #obviously i'm not cute like them but LMAO you get the point #venti is an adult who frequents bars and has verbatim 'i'm well above drinking age' #anyway thanks for coming to my angry tedtalk #marshal gets harshal

[ginkovskij]

tomorrow i have to go to uni and see if i can renovate my registration for the fourth year not graduating and i know it's silly but i am very anxious and scared

#this has been making me genuinely anxious to the point of feeling sick for four years #it's so stupid i'm terrified they will be mad at me #(i'm working on not using stupid when i talk about anxiety but. this is very stupid for real) #i won't be able to sleep tonight #thank you for listening to my tedtalk (': #notes of a countryside dandy

[wolfythewitch]

There is nothing quite like getting a rush of happy chemicals when looking at your art.

Its like my brain goes “Yes! Yes more! You have depraved me of the happy, mother!”

We are just a bunch of funky little art gremlins cheering loudly.

UEUEUE <33 THAMK YOUA

#princethemeowstic #wolfy tedtalks #been feeling bad about my art recently cause twitter algorithm has went to shit #but tumblr my beloved kekw #you never change

[chipsonthemenu]

fnc aro4aro send post

#in the recording booth #jrwi fish and chips #jrwi fnc #currently writing a fic thats very this #basically its chip pining over gil but he knows its not your average romantic love #its something different #and when gil ends up asking him about it he crumbles because he feels like its unnatural #but gil tells him how its all perfectly normal and how he's just being human!!! #and its all so aro coded because gil's gotten used to not feeling romantically about things over the years #because it wasnt really pushed on them during their childhood #but chip's always felt like he HAS to love romantically #with the amanda situation to probably other stuff in his past hes been conditioned to feel like he HAS to feel romantic love #when he just doesnt!!! #and then they kiss and all is well because chip knows that he's feeling normal feelings #and that concludes my essay on why fnc is aro4aro thank you for coming to my tedtalk

[octoagentmiles]

Try list any Octo-Agents and think of an Episode you Think give them a Shining Moment

W O O F this took a while– I was thinking long and hard about this because there are SO MANY good moments and episodes 😅, and so many agents– it was difficult, but I’m happy with my answers 👀

Ranger Marsh’s Shine Episode is definitely The Monitor Lizards. I LOVE this episode, it’s one of my favourites in the whole series so far—not just because of the events in it, but as a concept. I LOVE the callback to the Great Swamp Search!! I watched the 2nd season blind, and seeing all these familiar faces was SUCH a fun surprise. It’s good for Ranger Marsh as a character, because it actually shows him doing his job as a Ranger, not as an Octo-Agent. It also reinforces the fact that he truly cares for and is friends with these creatures, even if they are invasive, and that he's willing to travel to check in on them. This is another episode that also proves (to me) that the writers know they’re dealing with an older audience for the show, and are more likely to delve into solid lore and continuity. This episode makes me really hopeful for more of that.

Natquik’s Shine Episode, WITHOUT QUESTION, is The Red Fox. Honestly I feel like I don’t need to explain why, but I will because I like talking ✨: Natquik is my favourite Octo-Agent, but overall we haven’t actually gotten that many episodes dedicated to him yet. The Red Fox gives us a close and personal look into what Natquik is like by himself (I love episodes where characters are alone 👀), how he deals with problems (by ignoring them until they get worse—which is interesting... *stares at Barnacles*...), and even hints toward his family, by showing us his family portraits, and leaving us wondering, “Where are they?” – There are so many moments I love in this episode, from when he first discovers the kits, decides to help them stay warm, rushes to protect Barnacles, to his bittersweet goodbye at the end. It’s all so perfect.

Tracker absolutely shines in The Missing Lake. Honestly, he shines a LOT in Above and Beyond, considering he never got his own episode in the main series, and was only in Operation Deep Freeze for two scenes. AnB has been really good to Tracker, and I’m so grateful they decided to make him an Agent. The Missing Lake sticks out to me the most, because for the most part he is by himself (and I’ve already mentioned my love for that <3), and unlike all his other episodes, we get to really see him be responsible and use his Polar Scout skills in action. He’s often portrayed as a follower, who just goes along with whatever he's told to do, but he takes charge twice in this episode: when he offers to help Rowan, and when he stays behind to save Buck. Love that for him.

Calico Jack. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Calico Jack....... I could talk forever about this funky old cat man. He doesn’t just shine, he GLOWS in every episode he’s in—but alas, for the sake of this post I will be focusing on The Harlequin Duck. I love the showing of his gentle parental instincts in this episode, and his singing; since we know he canonically has a theme song, that I headcanon he wrote himself. I think far too much, and often, about how he legit panicked when he realized the egg was missing. How his first instinct was to hide that fact from Captain Barnacles. He was terrified, having a full blown panic attack on screen. He apologizes to the mother duck with such genuine solace, and promises to get it back “On [his] honour as a pirate!” ...Which is extremely significant to me, considering Kwazii was the first character to EVER say the phrase: “On me honour as an Octonaut!” in The Flying Fish after Inkling’s book was lost – and of course as a final touch, I adore seeing him work with Pete to get the egg back. The way he tosses the egg in the air, fully trusting that Pete will catch it... they’re so in sync, just as pirate and parrot are meant to be ;)

Paani... I feel like there’s so much more to him than what we’ve seen so far, it almost feels unfair to assign him a “Shine Episode”. So, instead of highlighting a single episode, I’ll quickly talk about three that stick out (PS: you might sense a theme 🤣):

The Barnacle Geese - Uncle Paani. I like the “I’ll be my own uncle” joke, and the Edgar Allen Poe reference. I think Paani’s determination to help the chick (who doesn’t seem to want help) is nice to watch, and helps to prove his worthiness as an Agent—which is always fun considering his hesitance when Barnacles tried to recruit him in S1E1. In a way, this episode also makes Paani seem more like Barnacles. See my old post analyzing the show’s intro. (*Stares at the episode title* 👁️👁️)

The Arabian Camels - Take a shot of cocoa every time I mention my love for episodes where characters are forced to be by themselves. This one is especially interesting to me though, because we know that Paani was alone, for a very long time, before he met the Octonauts. He has no trouble working and getting by alone, and we get to see him exhibiting that, while being out of his element (a dry desert) at the same time; and that’s really cool.

The Lonely Frog - ...Y’know how they constantly make the Octonauts/Agents meet creatures with similar issues to them? Yeah. *Stares at the episode title.* *Stares at the end scene where he says “Kinda like when I met you guys!” before obnoxiously jumping into the lake, in response to Shellington+Peso saying “They never even knew each other existed before! [...] and now it’s like they’ve known each other all their lives!”* *STARES MORE AT THE EPISODE TITLE,,* *wonders how long Paani was actually alone before becoming an Agent...*

Pinto, where art thou? He wasn’t in S2 at all, which was a bit disappointing since we just saw him get an Octowatch in S1. I would’ve expected him to be pressing that button every chance he got, giving us a “Penguin who cried Octoalert” episode. But anyway,, The Curious Penguin is the PERFECT episode for Pinto. It shows his personality really well, and I love how his distractions and the things he learns and discovers help him to save the day in the end. I think Pinto (just like Kwazii) is a good portrayal of ADHD, and how he just needs to be in the right environment to succeed. Each time Pinto messes up or loses focus, isn’t because he was left alone and couldn’t be trusted—it’s because he was left alone and understimulated. So when he’s thrown into a sudden high-stakes situation, all of his focus hones in on the moment, and he’s able to save Dashi and Paani by himself.

AND, because you didn’t say it had to be an Above and Beyond moment, I want to throw some love at The Oarfish episode from the main series. In this episode, Pinto no longer views Peso as “less” than an Octonaut, and is so excited to watch him do his job—it’s really cute!! His impulsivity is once again a positive thing—granted, it seems to annoy Peso a little, but when you think about it he kinda saved the day by being impulsive. He sounded the Octoalert without permission, which let the captain know to come back before their radio signal cut out, and by being unafraid of the “monster” and swimming outside, he was able to discover what the problem was so that Peso could help. He did good.

Pearl.... I love Pearl a lot, but I can’t think of one specific episode that comes to mind for her. I love The Pupfish because it introduces Peri to AnB, and I love how he teaches her how to tie a knot, so she can save the algae (and Glen). I like The Bison episode because it’s interesting watching her not doing something with algae for once, and The Pink Glacier because her and Kwazii’s dynamic was something I didn’t know I needed, but now I want more of (/p).

Ryla. Possibly controversial opinion: I liked Ryla in The Caves of Sac Actun, more than I like her now in Above and Beyond. I know she’s only gotten 3 episodes so far, but she’s really missing something. Sac Actun gave us lore on her right off the bat: she’s old friends with Dashi, she’s a skilled cave explorer, she’s spunky, she’s purple. AnB hasn’t given us much yet. So far her only shtick is caves, and that’s getting a bit repetitive. Consider every moment she has in Sac Actun as her “Shining Moment”, because honestly that whole movie is a 10/10.

Koshi,,,, she hasn't gotten that much yet, but I'm gonna say The Longfin Eels is her Shine Episode. I like the way she narrates the whole episode, because it's very in-character. Plus we know she’s literally writing about this adventure in her diary as she's telling it, as if it were a mystery book. She reminds me of narrators from 1920s film noirs, and that’s cool. Also! Honorary mention of the scene when she gets her Octowatch: I loved that for her <3

Min is below the cut, because my answer for her includes some very heavy SEASON 5 SPOILERS, including SCREENSHOTS:

All of Min's appearances so far are dear to my heart. However, my favourite has to be her own introductory episode: The Giant Chinese Salamander.

The Rainforest Rescue is another amazing episode for Min—she’s a wonderful character on her own, of course—but I think we can all agree that she and Inkling are very adorable together (no matter how you interpret their relationship).

When Above and Beyond aired on Netflix, there was a lot of confusion around Min, from the younger audience and other fans who hadn’t seen S5. The Giant Chinese Salamander introduces Min with a 20-minute special; showing her in high-stakes action with Kwazii, bonding with the Octonauts, being an all-around Cool Person™, and a flashback of how she met Inkling when they were younger.

She saved his life. He was thrown far inland by a rough storm, and was trapped until she found him. I honestly headcanon that Min partially (if not outright) inspired Inkling to form the Octonauts, and this moment could have literally sealed the fate of EVERYTHING we know.

But! Until S5 comes out, that's all I've got to say~ 👋💝

#i wanted to include screenshots for everyone's answers but there wasn't enough room and this post is big enough as it is 😅 #so instead y'all get an essay jdhdjdks <33 #octonauts above and beyond #octo-agents #about time i start using that tag lol #octonauts #am i going to one day make a giant analysis on cj in anb?? honestly maybe. there's so much there to talk about- i'm obsessed with him lmao #but it prbly won't be for a while #also. a message from future me when s3 is out: ''the natquik and tracker episode is amazing and a huge shine moment for both of them <3'' #/hj #fun fact i started writing this post in an openoffice document xD i was comparing all the eps to try to figure out the best ones #long post #all paani's eps are s2 eps bc i rly wasn't sure how i felt about him in s1. but s2 solidified my love for him <3 #hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i think a barnacles and pinto episode would be really good. thats all #the curious penguin is also a good episode for teaching kids that it's okay and good to be curious and ask questions!! love that about it! #kwazii is peak adult adhd rep and pinto is peak child adhd rep. thank you for coming to my tedtalk. /srs #hhhhgggggnn i love the cats so much. if we ever get more baby kwazii content you'll never stop hearing about it from me #please enjoy this post. i worked Really Hard on it /gen 💞🥹 #this post has been in my drafts for 50 years goodness gracious. take it away from me 🤣 #bonus answer for paani: i really like the secret beneath the snow-- #specifically the scene where he puts himself in front of gus to protect him from ''wolves'' #like. yo. /pos #it felt like something barnacles would've done yk? and that's fun :)) #i love min. i started writing this post before s5's english release got announced and i was talking about how i wanted anb #to give us more min and inkling content so we didn't have to wait 74363832 years to learn more about them xD #but now I'm SO EXCITEDDDD #. so excited for You Guys to watch S5 #bc I've seen it already and have been living in a constant state of restraining myself from giving spoilers– #cough. #TAG LIMIT REACHED HDHDBSBSJWBSUDBSJSJDHSH